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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in systems engineering, enterprise architecture, and cloud-native engineering, ensuring the integrity of complex systems integration and delivery. Capable of leading multidisciplinary teams while maintaining technical authority and governance across all engineering disciplines.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Chief Engineering LeadershipSystems EngineeringCloud-Native EngineeringTechnical GovernanceSC Clearance
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Hard Skills
Enterprise ArchitectureCOTS IntegrationSaaS IntegrationAPI ArchitectureInfrastructure as CodeDevSecOpsConfiguration ManagementTechnical PlanningRisk ManagementDesign Governance
Soft Skills
Stakeholder InfluenceTechnical CoachingMultidisciplinary Leadership
Tools & Technologies
Automated TestingObservability ToolsDocumentation Practices
Certifications & Qualifications
SC Clearance
Industry Keywords
Lifecycle AssuranceNon-Functional RequirementsOperational ReadinessSolution IntegrityTechnical Baseline Management
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesCloud
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Serve as Chief Engineer and senior engineering authority for ESCS
- Maintain continuity of technical direction and convert programme intent into a production-capable delivery path
- Own the integrity of the overall engineering solution
- Lead technical governance across applications, integration, data, cloud, security, test and operational readiness
- Act as principal technical interface to programme leadership
- Set engineering direction, technical guardrails and decision routes across capability teams and suppliers
- Ensure prototypes, demonstrations and IRAD outputs have a credible route to secure, scalable, supportable production delivery
- Provide independent technical judgement on delivery, cost, schedule, risk and customer-outcome trade-offs
- Own the ESCS engineering strategy, technical baseline, engineering management plan and technical decision record
- Lead multidisciplinary engineering across architecture, software, integration, data, cloud infrastructure, security, test and service readiness
- Translate customer outcomes and operational scenarios into technical priorities, increments and engineering acceptance criteria
- Chair technical and design reviews and assure designs, interfaces and non-functional requirements
- Maintain technical authority over solution integrity, configuration, interfaces, technical debt and engineering risks
- Identify required skills, supplier inputs, dependencies, assumptions and assurance evidence
- Align technical estimates, WBS/PBS content, resource assumptions and technical milestones with the integrated programme plan
- Drive repeatable deployment, automated testing, configuration management, observability, security and documentation practices
- Provide technical coaching and delegated authority while retaining accountability for the overall engineering solution
- Support customer demonstrations, bids and investment decisions with evidence of feasibility, maturity and residual risk
Requirements
What you’ll need- Chief engineering or senior technical authority leadership
- Systems engineering and lifecycle assurance
- Enterprise and solution architecture
- COTS and SaaS integration
- API, event and data-flow architecture
- Cloud-native engineering, Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps
- Non-functional requirements, security and operational readiness
- Technical baseline, configuration and interface management
- Technical planning, estimation, risk and design governance
- Senior stakeholder, supplier and multidisciplinary engineering leadership
- Technical authority or engineering leadership for complex systems integration or enterprise platform delivery
- Leading engineering across multiple disciplines rather than a single technology domain
- Maintaining end-to-end solution integrity through design, build, integration, verification and transition
- Converting discovery, prototype or demonstration outputs into an assured production delivery path
- Influencing senior stakeholders while remaining sufficiently close to delivery to resolve technical constraints
- Producing and assuring technical documentation, estimates, design evidence and acceptance artefacts
- SC clearance required to start and required for the role
Benefits
Comp & perks- 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)
- Flexible Working Scheme
- Technical academies
- Career rotations
- Career development plans