Careers

Who Are CSL?

• We are a leading international critical IoT connectivity expert provider specialising in sectors including Building & Security, Healthcare & Telecare, Infrastructure, Retail & Hospitality, and Transport & Logistics.
• We are a rapidly growing, private equity-backed company with an international presence, operating across the UK, Ireland, the Nordics, Benelux, Spain, and North America.
• We have completed 7 acquisitions, with each acquired business adding further expertise and scale to our market-leading propositions.
• We have over 30 years of experience and now operate over 3 million active IoT connections around the world.
• We now have over 270 employees within the Group – and this is growing all the time.
• We are ranked 10th in the 2025 UK’s Best Workplaces™ by Great Place To Work®
• Our high performing team is renowned for delivering leading solutions and services, backed up by world-class customer support across markets that demand nothing less than absolute certainty.
• Our products and solutions have won over 20 awards across a range of industries.

Who Are CSL Looking For?

An experienced and driven technical programme manager who has experience of implementing high-reliability or large-scaled systems. Someone who has not only delivered projects but a portfolio or inter-related deliverables that makes up a programme of works. Someone who has had a few bumps, a few failures and knows from previous experience how to get things back on track.

The Role:

The Technical Programme Manager leads on CSL’s complex portfolio of delivery programmes that support achieving the wider strategies. The role ensures timely delivery of high‑quality technical solutions drawing together product, engineering and partners to achieve the outcomes.

The role holder is responsible for managing the portfolio of deliverables on the prioritised backlog. They are responsible for ensuring statuses are up to date, dependencies are known and conflicts are identified. They highlight when teams are taking longer than originally identified and help to manage risks that will impact deliverables ultimately bringing the complex backlog to life in means that is accessible to all.

This role involves delivering outcomes by applying a range of best-practice programme management principles and approaches working alongside other members of the Engineering Leadership Team and wider Technology Leadership Group. Together, they collaborate and network with colleagues/stakeholders from across the business with a focus on achieving successful and efficient outcomes aligned with broader strategies and delivery commitments, with an emphasis on a learning-based culture.

Key to being successful is being responsible for creating a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming environment. It is essential to ensure that everyone feels supported to be their authentic self, can grow, develop, and positively contribute to delivering value.

Key Skills & Qualifications Sought:

People

• Accountable for resource alignment of product, engineering and partner teams to the key backlog items and seeking efficient utilisation.
• Builds strong relationships with stakeholders across CSL, including commercial, finance, operations, and wider leadership.
• Communicates programme progress, risks, decisions, and impacts clearly to technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Influences backlog prioritisation in partnership with product managers and business stakeholders.
• Reviews quality of backlog items (ideas, epics and stories) thus ensures teams are prepared to deliver when the backlog items are prioritised.
• · Facilitates alignment across CSL and external engineering teams and seeks ways to remove delivery blockers.
• · Provides leadership that encourages continuous improvement and innovation across teams.

Process

• Ensuring that backlogs are delivered on time, with accurate forecasts and cost management controls. Delivery itself facilitated through Head of Engineering / Engineering Leads across both CSL and external partners.
• Collaborating with Product Managers on understanding and representing the longer-term roadmap outcomes and measures aligned on business goals.
• Implementing effective delivery methodologies and operate the backlog management tooling used by product and engineering teams (Jira).
• Track and clearly communicate progress against committed roadmaps, plans and budget to all interested and invested parties – tailoring communication as appropriate to ensure relevance to the audience.
• Oversees resource planning, forecasting, and programme‑level governance.
• Creates and owns the roadmap and the programme plan including accountability for representing estimates for backlog items and ensuring a prioritised backlog always exists and is maintained.
• Maintains programme‑level reporting, milestones, and success metrics.
• Manages cross‑product and cross‑engineering dependencies, risks, and issues.
• Ensures compliance with CSL governance, operational standards, and delivery frameworks.
• Drives continuous improvement of delivery processes, workflows, and operational practices.

Technology

• Own the Programme Management toolset, day to day operation, reporting and configuration management.
• Proactively researches relevant technologies, tools, and industry trends to guide CSL’s direction.
• Ensures technical programme deliverables proposed include considerations for reliability, scalability, performance, and security.
• Ensures technical risks, constraints, and dependencies are understood and managed.
• Supports the adoption of modern engineering practices, automation, and tooling.
• Ensures technical considerations are embedded into planning, estimation, and prioritisation.

Ideal Experience and Knowledge Sought:

• Significant experience leading complex technical delivery programmes across multiple products, or services, supported by both CSL engineering and external partner teams.
• Strong understanding of modern engineering architectures and practices (front‑end, back‑end, integration, cloud, APIs), enabling effective challenge, decision‑making, and partnership with engineering leaders.
• Proven track record of shaping, motivating, and guiding high‑performing cross‑functional teams, ensuring clarity of purpose, alignment, and accountability across product and engineering.
• Demonstrable experience engaging, influencing, and managing senior stakeholders across commercial, operational, and technical domains, with the ability to navigate competing priorities and drive consensus.
• Comfortable operating in fast‑moving, ambiguous environments, coordinating delivery across in‑house teams and external partners (on‑shore and off‑shore) to achieve outcomes at pace.
• Familiarity with contemporary delivery methodologies, engineering best practices, and the ability to select and apply the right approach for different contexts and teams.
• Advanced JIRA expertise, including workflow configuration, backlog and dependency management, reporting and dashboards, and driving programme delivery through effective use of agile tooling and governance.
• Good influencing and negotiation skills, with the ability to align diverse viewpoints and ensure decisions are grounded in data, risk awareness, and strategic alignment.
• Experience overseeing the design, delivery, and evolution of large‑scale or business‑critical technical solutions, ensuring they meet expectations for scalability, resilience, and long‑term sustainability.

The above should not be viewed as an exhaustive list of skills and/or qualifications but rather CSLs view on the ideal candidate. If you feel you can meet three quarters of the requirements and learn the rest with support from CSL please apply now with an indication of your salary expectations for the role.

CSL operates as an equal opportunities employer and we welcome all applications regardless of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy, or maternity.

Who Are CSL?

• We are a leading international critical IoT connectivity expert provider specialising in sectors including Building & Security, Healthcare & Telecare, Infrastructure, Retail & Hospitality, and Transport & Logistics.
• We are a rapidly growing, private equity-backed company with an international presence, operating across the UK, Ireland, the Nordics, Benelux, Spain, and North America.
• We have completed 7 acquisitions, with each acquired business adding further expertise and scale to our market-leading propositions.
• We have over 30 years of experience and now operate over 3 million active IoT connections around the world.
• We now have over 270 employees within the Group – and this is growing all the time.
• We are ranked 10th in the 2025 UK’s Best Workplaces™ by Great Place To Work®
• Our high performing team is renowned for delivering leading solutions and services, backed up by world-class customer support across markets that demand nothing less than absolute certainty.
• Our products and solutions have won over 20 awards across a range of industries.

Who Are CSL Looking For?

A commercially minded, ambitious finance professional with strong FP&A fundamentals, who can own detailed models and forecasts but also step back to understand the commercial drivers and turn analysis into clear recommendations. You will be confident with senior stakeholders, comfortable in a fast-moving PE-backed environment and keen to develop towards a senior FP&A or Commercial Finance role.

The Role:

Reporting to the Commercial Finance Director, you will own CSL’s core planning, forecasting and management reporting, and provide forward-looking financial and commercial insight across the Group. You will partner with Sales, Marketing, Operations, Product and Technology, with regular exposure to the CFO and Executive Team.

Duties & Responsibilities:

This role will encompass a range of responsibilities including but not limited to:

• Forecasting & Planning: Own the monthly rolling P&L, cash flow and balance sheet forecast; lead key elements of the budget, 6+6 and multi-year plan, including scenarios.
• Management Reporting: Own monthly revenue, gross margin, EBITDA and cash bridges, analysing performance by business area, product, customer and geography to highlight risks, opportunities and underlying trends.
• Commercial & Revenue Insight: Analyse ARR, pricing, margin, and customer profitability, alongside key SaaS-related KPIs such as GRR, NRR, churn, ARPU and AMPU.
• Business Partnering: Build strong relationships with budget owners, challenge assumptions constructively and drive accountability against forecast, budget and investment cases, including opex and headcount tracking.
• Modelling: Build robust, well-documented models and business cases for growth and investment.
• M&A & Integration: Support acquisition analysis and due diligence, integration of acquired businesses into Group reporting, and synergy tracking.
• Board & Investor Reporting: Assist in the preparation of Board and investor materials with clear, concise commentary reconciled to underlying models.
• Process & Automation: Improve data quality and automation, including use of BI and AI tools.

Key Skills & Qualifications Sought:

• ACA / ACCA / CIMA qualified, 1-5 years PQE in FP&A
• Excellent Excel modelling and three-statement forecasting skills
• Strong PowerPoint skills and the ability to turn complex analysis into clear messages
• Comfortable with large data sets and imperfect information
• Experience in recurring revenue, PE-backed software or SaaS businesses; IoT experience advantageous but not essential
• Commercially curious, proactive, hands-on and confident challenging senior stakeholders
• Hunger, drive and focus
• Strong attention to detail

The above should not be viewed as an exhaustive list of skills and/or qualifications but rather CSLs view on the ideal candidate. If you feel you can meet three quarters of the requirements and learn the rest with support from CSL please apply now with an indication of your salary expectations for the role.

CSL operates as an equal opportunities employer and we welcome all applications regardless of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy, or maternity.

Who Are CSL?

• We are a leading international critical IoT connectivity expert provider specialising in sectors including Building & Security, Healthcare & Telecare, Infrastructure, Retail & Hospitality, and Transport & Logistics.
• We are a rapidly growing, private equity-backed company with an international presence, operating across the UK, Ireland, the Nordics, Benelux, Spain, and North America.
• We have completed 7 acquisitions, with each acquired business adding further expertise and scale to our market-leading propositions.
• We have over 30 years of experience and now operate over 3 million active IoT connections around the world.
• We now have over 270 employees within the Group – and this is growing all the time.
• We are ranked 10th in the 2025 UK’s Best Workplaces™ by Great Place To Work®
• Our high performing team is renowned for delivering leading solutions and services, backed up by world-class customer support across markets that demand nothing less than absolute certainty.
• Our products and solutions have won over 20 awards across a range of industries.

Who Are CSL Looking For?

To be a successful QA Engineer, you will be responsible for implementing the quality assurance processes for the end to-end solutions we are building, ensuring the functionality, security, usability, and performance of our products across all of the component systems (devices, platform business systems, user facing tooling etc) meets or ideally exceeds the acceptance criteria, definitions of done, standards and customers expectations. Ultimately our QA Engineers are responsible for ensuring the highest quality of our products and services are delivered to our customers demonstrating the outcome goals of critical, secure and live solutions. We are after more than just testers at CSL – while Testers focus on detecting issues, we are specifically after QA Engineers who can collaborate and work proactively to prevent them and improve overall quality for our customers.

The Role:

QA Engineers play a crucial role in testing and quality assurance for CSL’s systems, products, and services. This includes ensuring test coverage, end-to-end solution testing, automation of testing, integration within CI/CD pipelines, and conducting manual testing within specific business and technology domains. The role involves collaborating with peers and supporting colleagues such as Business Process Owners, Product Managers, Software Engineers, Solution Architects, and DevOps Engineers to maintain and enhance platform quality. While automation is the long-term goal, hands-on testing remains essential. As a Mid-Level QA Engineer, you’ll be responsible for implementing test approaches, supporting the development and implementation of quality strategies plus the associated frameworks and routinely undertaking manual and automated testing activities with the aim to automate as much as possible. You’ll spend time reviewing and supporting Software engineers in creation and utilisation of unit tests to improve our unit test coverage. You will also be likely to be involved in the device hardware testing, ensuring functionality, durability, and compliance with required standards.

Duties & Responsibilities:

This role will encompass a range of responsibilities including but not limited to:

People

• Able to work in close partnership with and under the guidance of others – Heads of Engineering, Solution Architect, Technical Programme Manager, Engineering Leads and other QA Engineers to align testing activities.
• Provide technical insight and support for other QA Engineers where needed.
• Participate in unit test reviews with Software Engineers to improve test coverage.
• Work within cross-centres of excellence multi-skillset teams to ensure smooth integration of testing into the development cycle and that its considered from Discovery onwards.
• Communicate testing updates and identified issues clearly to relevant stakeholders.
• Contribute to team development, offering guidance to other QA Engineers as required.

Process

• Provide frequent and accurate updates on ticket progress, expected timelines, work level outstanding, dependencies, risks, issues and duration spent to Delivery Programme Managers.
• Collaborate with Software engineer, Product Managers and DevOps Engineers to ensure comprehensive test coverage throughout the backlog and implementation lifecycle.
• Support the creation and implementation of wider reaching and end to end test strategies at a product and roadmap level (for example large scale performance testing).
• Assist in defining and responsible for implementing automated testing approaches for efficiency.
• Stay informed about advancements in testing methodologies via attending conferences and learning activities.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of QA processes, testing frameworks, and aligning these into engineering best practices.
• Work and collaborate closely with Software Engineers to improve quality before defects arise.
• Support release and unit test validation and wider testing efforts, ensuring readiness for deployment.

Technology

• Conduct exploratory, regression, functional, non-functional, and usability testing to validate performance.
• Perform hardware and device testing, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
• Design and undertake manual and automated test activities for functional and non-functional requirements.; considering within release, backlog items and wider end to end scope. The aim being to automate as much as possible into the CI and CD pipelines to facilitate continuous regression testing.
• Scope, develop and implement end-to-end test plans for signalling-wide updates and feature releases based on the committed plan and key initiatives.
• Document testing outcomes, producing clear and concise reports on product test coverage.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and validate bugs and system issues sharing with Engineers.

Key Skills & Qualifications Sought:

• Proven hands-on experience in software / hardware testing and achieving quality assurance. Analytical thinking, balancing business needs, technology constraints, and user experience.
• Knowledge of testing automation and defect tracking tools, understanding their role in Agile environments.
• Problem-solving mindset, with the ability to troubleshoot and refine test strategies.
• Strong communication skills, capable of collaborating across teams and explaining technical concepts.
• Continuous learning approach, keeping up to date with new technologies and methodologies.

The above should not be viewed as an exhaustive list of skills and/or qualifications but rather CSLs view on the ideal candidate. If you feel you can meet three quarters of the requirements and learn the rest with support from CSL please apply now with an indication of your salary expectations for the role.

CSL operates as an equal opportunities employer and we welcome all applications regardless of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy, or maternity.