Software Engineering Manager in Farnborough, Hampshire

Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people and our community. Our mission and our values guide the way we do business. The foundations of our Leidos culture are our Values, Beliefs and Expectations by which we select, recognise and reward employees. They create the environment that drives us toward our mission.

The UK National Security, Defense and Intelligence Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a Software Engineering Manager to work remotely. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience supporting the Metropolitan Police contract.

In this role, you will lead software engineering teams responsible for the design, development, and quality of applications and services. You will provide technical leadership and people management, ensuring engineering standards, best practices, and system integrity are consistently maintained. This position focuses on engineering excellence, team development, and technical governance, working in close partnership with delivery leadership.

Your Role and Primary Responsibilities

• Lead and manage software engineering teams delivering complex applications and services
• Provide technical leadership and guidance, ensuring adherence to engineering best practices
• Line manage engineers including performance reviews, career development, and mentoring
• Ensure code quality, maintainability, scalability, and security
• Establish and enforce engineering standards and development practices
• Drive adoption of modern engineering approaches (CI/CD, automation, code reviews)
• Support engineers in solving complex technical challenges and removing blockers
• Own and manage Interface Control Documents (ICDs), including:

• Creation, review, and ongoing maintenance of ICDs
• Ensuring interface definitions are accurate and up to date
• Managing interface changes and dependencies
• Maintaining traceability between ICDs and system requirements

Basic Qualifications

• Experience as a Software Engineering Manager or similar role
• Strong background in software development
• Experience managing engineering teams
• Experience delivering software across full lifecycle
• Understanding of system integration and interface management
• Experience maintaining technical documentation
• Strong stakeholder communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise or government environments
• DevOps / CI-CD / Azure exposure
• Agile delivery experience
• Jira and Confluence experience
• Microservices and API design knowledge
• Experience with system integrations and third-party interfaces
• Understanding of security and governance requirements

Are you ready to make an impact? Begin your journey of a flourishing and meaningful career, share your CV with us today!

What we do for you:

At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
• Flexi-Time

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & EUROPE we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science. Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail.