Senior Software Architecture Chapter Lead

1 week ago

Gaydon, United Kingdom Jaguar Land Rover Full time
Gaydon, Warwickshire (UK) / Hybrid

SALARY: Competitive

JLR is a House of Brands. Range Rover. Defender. Discovery. Jaguar. Truly distinct, global brands that embrace our modernist design philosophy and are emotionally compelling and unique. JLR’s Reimagine strategy - to realise our vision to be proud creators of the most desirable, modern luxury brands, for the most discerning of clients - is delivering a sustainability-rich vision of modern luxury by design and we are transforming our business to become carbon net zero across our supply chain, products, and operations by 2039.

WHAT TO EXPECT

As a Senior SW Architecture Chapter Lead, you will lead the architects in a number of different domains, ensuring quality and consistency in product delivery, providing mentorship, technical guidance and pastoral care for your engineers.

You are a skilled software architect who also enjoys coaching, mentoring, and developing associates. You care about delivering value to our customers and improving our solutions and practices across domains. You work with your Chapter Leads in an agile structure to set the standards for the chapter, influence the strategic technical decisions and contribute with your expertise to a cross-domain architecture and capability roadmap.

You oversee Chapter Leads across domains who work autonomously, but report directly to you and make sure a coherent solution architecture is in place, while supporting the team in case of critical technical delivery issues. You also support them in growing and developing their knowledge area and ensure alignment on process, methods and tools.

Day to day, you will be driving a chapter capability roadmap, while advising on cross domain options & risks, guiding and facilitating tech decisions. You will also drive initiatives to consolidate the way we do architecture and ensure its consistency across different domains. You will sponsor technical spikes and innovation and drive knowledge sharing sessions/content to increase the technical excellence of your engineers.

You will have the opportunity to be involved in the development of the future of Software Defined Vehicles and will be influential in the development of the Software platform and features for Jaguar, Defender and Range Rover vehicles across the range.

THE ROLE

Key Responsibilities

Raise quality and consistency in product delivery including Body of Knowledge maintenance Create Capability & Technology Roadmaps to meet current and future needs of the business in support of product roadmaps Upskill chapter members Ensure quality of the solution architecture across products Provide technical support and guidance to product development where needed

Key Interactions

Chapter community and Chapter Head Product teams and group/domain POs 3rd party suppliers

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Ability to lead a software organisation Knowledge across several programming languages, including C/C++ SW development and architecture in one of: embedded, automotive, aerospace, transportation SW UML Design and requirements elicitation Extensive OS systems / SW platforms knowledge (at least two of Unix/QNX/Autosar/Android) Relevant degree or equivalent experience Knowledge of networking systems and protocols

Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Experience in safety critical designs Experience in both vehicle and cloud systems Previous experience of business transformation in processes and tools

Personal Profile

A good communicator with the ability to explain complex ideas to technical and non-technical stakeholders You communicate effectively and build strong partnerships and relationships with all levels of the organization Experience in working across multiple squads and balancing the business and technology priorities You have a mindset of continuous improvement and promote an Agile way of working You are empathic, able to listen to understand and coach chapter members to support their wellbeing and advancement

#WEAREJLR

At JLR, we are passionate about our people. They are at the heart of our business. We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive culture that is representative of our global customers and the society in which we live; a culture in which every one of our employees can bring their authentic self to work and reach their full potential.

You will find the opportunities to further your career with a world-class team, access to select two of our luxury premium vehicles to lease at an extremely favourable cost compared to traditional company car lease schemes, membership of a competitive pension plan, private medical cover (which includes travel insurance) and performance related bonus scheme. All this and more makes JLR the perfect place to continue your journey.

This role may offer the opportunity for hybrid working where you can split your time between working from home and in the office. At JLR, hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement providing employees with more choice and flexibility around how, when and where they work, if suitable for their role. Further details can be discussed with the Hiring Manager at interview stage.

Please be aware that we may close this vacancy for applications before the stated deadline if we receive a high volume of interest. We strongly advise you to submit your application as early as possible.

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