System Lead - Access in London

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high‑performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work‑life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

The System Lead – Access is responsible for managing a portfolio of software projects, overseeing staff, support services, and all associated deliverables.

About L3Harris Trenchant: Working at Trenchant means working alongside the best researchers and engineers from across the security research and intelligence communities. Our 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.

What The Role Will Involve:

• Lead, mentor and support a large cadre of 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, acting as the accountable voice for both engineering and product outcomes.
• Devise and apply communications strategies to align a global, cross‑functional workforce around product and delivery goals.
• Engage stakeholders to reconcile strategic, commercial, and technical priorities – translating customer signal 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 to ensure timely processing of actions affecting direct reports.

Technical & Product Responsibilities:

• 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.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in software engineering, computer science, or a related field.
• Demonstrated proficiency of mobile platform (Android or iOS) internals, native programming languages (Objective‑C, Swift, Java, and/or Kotlin), and system security mechanisms.
• 8+ years of experience in software development, process automation, quality engineering, or network operations.
• Working knowledge of operating system and application vulnerability classes.
• Proven experience analyzing malware samples and understanding mitigations provided by software patches.
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker), git workflows, and continuous integration/delivery platforms (e.g., Bamboo, Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab).
• Knowledge and practical experience with agile software development methodologies.
• 4+ years of experience leading a team.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• 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.
• Demonstrated proficiency using reverse engineering tools such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, or Hopper and dynamic tools such as Frida or ADB.

Work Environment and Physical Demands:

• Duties require working with a global team and may periodically necessitate working outside of normal working hours (evenings, holidays, and weekends).
• Up to 10% travel required.
• 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.

A few of our employee benefits are 25 days holiday per year.