Rolls-Royce
Software Capability Lead
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Software Capability Lead
Software Capability Lead
Location: Solihull or Derby/Hybrid Employment Type: Full Time
Why join Rolls-Royce?
At Rolls-Royce, we are proud to be a business that has shaped the modern world and remain committed to driving progress. We empower everyone to innovate through diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds.
Position Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Capability Lead to join the Model-Based Software Engineering team.
This role focuses on:
- Developing people, processes, and tools for high-integrity model-based software development and verification
- Ensuring accountability for:
- Enabling software engineering teams to create and maintain software architectures and designs
- Supporting verification efforts
- Driving capability improvements
- Ensuring compliance with standards and regulatory requirements
The High Integrity Model-Based Software Engineering function delivers Product Line solutions for all new Rolls-Royce Aerospace products. Working in a global capability group across sites in Indianapolis, Friedrichshafen, and the UK, this role contributes to evolving and enhancing best practices in model-based software engineering across the organisation.
What You Will Be Doing
- Provide technical leadership for the Engineering resource group, ensuring adherence to:
- Agreed processes
- Corporate methodology
- Regulatory requirements
- Engineering lifecycle reviews
- Develop and maintain robust resource plans, including:
- Recruitment
- Subcontracting
- Partner integration
- Meeting delivery commitments and business needs
- Identify and ensure sustained availability of:
- Required capabilities
- Skills and resources
- Alignment with business strategy and programme needs
- Lead, develop, and manage team performance with:
- Clear objectives
- Training and professional development
- Reward management
- Health, safety, and security compliance
- Act as the primary communication hub for the resource group, managing:
- Functional interfaces
- Relationships between engineering and the supply chain
- Drive continuous improvement, operational best practices, and knowledge management through:
- Lessons-learned capturing
- Process reviews
- Cross-group collaboration
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Position Qualifications
- Degree-level qualification or equivalent
- Demonstrates:
- Sound engineering judgement
- Knowledge of customers and programmes
- Effective leadership and technical skills
- Ability to:
- Build high-performing teams
- Foster positive shifts in attitudes and behaviours
- Understanding of:
- Company quality policies
- Processes deployed within the resource group
- Experience in:
- Applying process improvement techniques
- Driving business improvements
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Regional Benefits
Rolls-Royce offers competitive benefits, including:
- Generous annual leave
- Retirement savings
- Group life assurance (lump-sum benefit if employed during death)
- Group income protection (income during illness or injury)
- Your Shares: Matched (invest in Rolls-Royce shares with zero-coinmatch scheme)
About Rolls-Royce
Our mission is to preserve and extend the excellent ingenuity that defines our history. Through a transformational multi-year programme, we aim to establish Rolls-Royce as a high-performing, competitive, resilient, and growing company. We invite you to join us as part of this vision.
Rolls-Royce is committed to fostering:
- A respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace
- An environment where individuality is valued and diverse perspectives drive innovation
- Career opportunities for everyone
Key Details
- Closing Date: 16th July 2026
- Selection Process: Assessments (cognitive & behavioural aptitude testing) may be required for shortlisted candidates in certain locations.
- Category: Software Systems
- Posting Date: 02 Jul 2026
- Posting End Date: 16 Jul 2026
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