Team Leader — Software

CPI helps make great ideas and inventions a reality. We’re a team of intelligent people using advances in science and technology to solve the biggest global challenges in healthcare and sustainability.

Through our incredible people and innovation infrastructure, we collaborate with our partners in industry, academia, government, and the investment community to accelerate the development and commercialisation of innovative products.

From health technologies and pharmaceuticals to sustainable food and materials innovations, we turn the entrepreneurial spirit and radical thinking of our people and partners into incredible impact that makes our world a better place.

CPI has an exciting opportunity for a team leader to join its established and growing software team, to supervise and coordinate a high-performing technical group, providing expertise and leading on medium and large scale projects in HealthTech fields such as IVD, medical devices, wearables, sensor technologies, connectivity and drug delivery devices. A proven track record of managing and leading software engineering teams within a regulated environment (particularly in the medical devices area would be advantageous). 

The Team Leader will draw on a broad range of technical know-how to provide carefully thought out advice/​expertise to a range of stakeholders, offering innovative solutions and contributing extensively to development and improvement activities.

Some exciting projects the team have been involved with are:

Heatleaf: Innovation for amputees: Developing wearable devices to improve lives

NeoBand: Enhancing newborn safety with wearable temperature monitoring for babies that require emergency transport

More real stores of successful innovation can be found here

The Role

Key tasks in the role will include (but are not limited to the below), please download the job description for full details available on the CPI careers page:

• Overseeing the design, development, and maintenance of software applications and systems.

• Ensuring code quality and adherence to coding standards through regular code reviews and mentoring

• Staying up to date on emerging technologies and best practice in software engineering and implement them within the team

• Supervising the software team, ensuring delivery of departmental goals, through appropriate delegation and providing feedback and motivation to team members. This includes providing first line-management support, allocation of resource to ensure project delivery and short-term planning of deliverables. 
• Actively contributing to a culture of continuous capability development through coaching, mentoring and/​or developing colleagues across the technology team and organisation, providing insights into areas of specialism. 
• Formulting and presenting possible solution directions and issue advice, building an internal reputation as a reliable and credible authority. 

The successful candidate will be educated to a minimum of HNC or Foundation Degree level (or equivalent) in a Scientific/​Engineering discipline and have significant industrial experience at a senior level. They must be able to demonstrate significant, technical expertise in software development and display evidence of complex technical problem solving.

Experience of supervising a small group or team within a operational environment and holding a supervisory or management qualification would be advantageous.

Experience in design and development of software medical devices, knowledge of systems engineering V‑Model processes, and skills in systems engineering/​systems integration in a commercial product development environment is also desirable.

At CPI, we offer a wide range of benefits to our employees, this includes:

• Up to 36 days holiday, including bank holidays – Plus a holiday purchasing scheme
• Generous pension scheme
• Life assurance and accident insurance schemes
• Flexible working
• Learning and Development Opportunities
• Free parking

Find out more about our culture and benefits.

Please note this role will require a minimum of 2 days per week on site at Sedgefield

CPI is an organisation based in the UK. Commencement of employment is conditional to demonstrating right to work in the UK, sponsorship may be available.