About the Role
The Product Engineering Manager is responsible for managing a portfolio of software projects, overseeing staff, support services, and all associated deliverables.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and support experienced engineering individuals overseeing teams across the US, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
- Own product intent, portfolio priorities, and trade-off decisions across assigned product lines.
- Act as the accountable voice for both engineering and product outcomes.
- Devise and apply communication strategies to align a global, cross-functional workforce around product and delivery goals.
- Engage stakeholders to reconcile strategic, commercial, and technical priorities, translating customer signals into product direction.
- Assemble and monitor high-performance, multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Set objectives, monitor performance, promote communication, and ensure the well-being of direct reports.
- Support administrative tasks for timely processing of actions affecting direct reports.
- Define and guard product intent, establishing what each product is, what it is not, and who it is for, and restate this when scope pressure arises.
- Collaborate with team leads to review high-level architecture, internal project goals, and technical barriers.
- Partner with stakeholders to refine project priorities and adapt deliveries based on evolving market and customer requirements.
- Analyze program requirements and develop effort estimates in conjunction with program management partners.
- Maintain depth in respective disciplines and contribute to ongoing software projects in research, engineering, or quality assurance.
Requirements
- Ability to sit at a desk, look at a monitor, and type for extended periods of time in an office environment.
- May be required to lift/move up to 25 lbs with assistance.
- Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate and troubleshoot computers.
- Require a UK/5 EYES nationality.
- Ability to obtain a security clearance.
- Meet the requirement of right to work in the UK.
- Meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
- Subject to government security checks.
Skills
- Proficiency in high-level programming languages.
- Proficiency in operating systems (Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, iOS).
- Working knowledge of cybersecurity foundations (penetration testing, offensive and defensive techniques, host and network forensics).
- Knowledge of TCP/IP communications.
- Knowledge of network security principles.
- Knowledge of client/server architecture.
- Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker).
- Experience with git workflows.
- Experience with continuous integration/delivery platforms (e.g., Bamboo, Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab).
- Knowledge and practical experience with agile software development methodologies.
- Substantial experience in CNO development/offensive cyber security.
- Experience in low-level programming languages and instruction sets.
- Ability to install and operate developer debugging tools on Windows, macOS, Android, or iOS.
- Experience with containerization, microservices, and DevOps practices.
Location
- London, Piccadilly Circus
Work Type
- Working with a global team, potentially outside of normal working hours (evenings, holidays, and weekends).
- Up to 10% travel required.
Experience Level
- 8+ years of experience in software development, process automation, quality engineering, or network operations.
- 4+ years of experience leading a team.
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in software engineering, computer science, or a related field.
Benefits
- 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service.
- Opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday.
- Private medical insurance with optional family cover.
- Pension scheme of up to 8% employer contribution.
- Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x).
- Group income protection.
- Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover, cycle to work scheme, travel insurance, and electric car scheme.
- Employee Family Assistance Program providing mental health and wellbeing support.
About the Company
- Working at Trenchant means working alongside the best researchers and engineers from across the security research and intelligence communities.
- Tight-knit interdisciplinary teams generate thoughtful capability designs and incremental feature releases that reliably deliver world-class computer security products into operational environments.
- Our business unit offers an exceptional value-proposition for individuals looking to make an impact.
- Trenchant’s expertise is the by-product of the L3Harris acquisition of two highly-regarded information security businesses – Azimuth Security and Linchpin Labs.
- United under Trenchant, we are a key component of L3Harris’ Intelligence and Cyber Sector, now the core of the newly established Cyber division.
- We are a trusted, discrete partner furnishing security products, consultancy, training, and integration services to allied security, defense, and law enforcement agencies.
