SW Integration Defect Lead Engineer

Position Title: SW Integration Defect Lead Engineer

Duration: Contract

Location: Gaydon (hybrid working)

£33.88 per hour (Inside IR35), 40 hrs per week

Applicants MUST have proof of immediate, ongoing and valid eligibility to work full time and travel within the UK.

This role is responsible for issue management using structured problem‑solving techniques to ensure software issues are correctly managed across all EVA25 programmes within the Motion and Propulsion domain.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for SW issue management using structured problem‑solving techniques.
• Define and govern the issues management process for Motion & Propulsion SW controls.
• Work with integration teams, ECU squads and ITP teams to triage issues and identify relevant squad for each issue.
• Investigate complex system issues to create a standard problem definition and lead root cause analysis.
• Provide technical support across the operational team on topics relating to integration and testing of multiple interconnected components, including issue resolution and objective data analysis.
• Track issues to ensure fixes are robustly validated and deployed.
• Identify gaps in system diagnostic strategies to drive design improvements.

Process & Activities

• Review issues to progress ageing and high‑priority issues.
• Agree with feature / ECU owners of ICA and PCA in place.
• Link issues to propulsion pack releases and SW drops for delivery.
• Report issue status with priority and escalation.
• Approve SIMS issue closure with assignee.
• Create, maintain and improve dashboards, filters, reports and KPIs for delivery teams and leadership.
• Support cross‑functional program reporting across Domain, CSI and business units.

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Good relevant experience working in a systems engineering environment – ideally within the automotive sector.
• Experience in applying systems engineering and testing of complex technical systems using a structured approach.
• Ability to produce formal documentation to a highly professional standard.
• Relevant experience of integrated system testing.
• Full driving licence.

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