Job Title: Technical Product Development - Senior Engineer
Location:Gaydon, Warwickshire
Rate: £33.88ph via an Umbrella Company (Inside IR35) or £25.26ph PAYE
Employment Type: Contract (31.3.2027)
Hours: Standard 40 Hours Per Week
Reference: J37027865
Duties:
Concept Development & Validation
- Work with UX/UI teams to define how efficiency insights are communicated to the customer.
- Identify and deliver prototyping of new concepts for early concept validation.
End-to-End Mindset & Systems Thinking
- Develop concepts considering the end-to-end technical architecture and holistic impact analysis.
- Define functional decomposition, ownership boundaries and allocations.
- Produce design artefacts and requirements to support onwards delivery.
Skills:
- Customer Insight & Behaviour Analysis – Skilled at translating customer needs, usage patterns, and behavioural insights into actionable efficiency feature requirements.
- Market, Competitor & Trend Analysis – Strong capability in analysing competitor offerings, industry innovation, and global legislative trends to inform strategic product direction.
- Customer Experience Design – Experienced in creating holistic customer journeys that integrate vehicle behaviour, environmental context, HMI interactions, and connected digital ecosystems.
- Data‑Driven Decision Making – Proficient in analysing customer vehicle data to identify opportunities, validate concepts, and guide future efficiency feature development.
- Concept Development & Prototyping – Skilled in ideation, early‑stage concept creation, and delivery of prototypes for rapid validation of efficiency‑enhancing features.
- UX/UI Collaboration – Experienced in working with UX/UI teams to define and communicate efficiency insights intuitively through in‑vehicle and digital interfaces.
- Systems Thinking & End‑to‑End Architecture – Strong capability in assessing feature impacts across systems, defining functional decomposition, and ensuring architecture alignment.
- Requirements Definition & Design Artefacts – Competent in creating clear feature requirements, design documentation, and artefacts supporting engineering delivery.
- Strategic Road‑Mapping – Skilled in defining future efficiency experience roadmaps and influencing strategic business decisions through strong communication of customer value.
- Cross‑Functional Leadership – Effective collaboration across engineering, product strategy, UX, data teams, and programme functions to align feature intent with delivery.
- Innovation & Opportunity Identification – Ability to identify, analyse, and recommend new product opportunities through insight‑driven innovation and concept validation.
- Communication & Stakeholder Engagement – Clear, concise communicator capable of presenting insights, recommendations, and customer experience strategies to diverse stakeholders.
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