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Chief Engineer - Defence Entreprise Solution
+ Initial 8 month contract
+ Outside IR35
+ Andover based
+ 700 to 770 per day
Candidates must hold SC security clearance for this role
Chief Engineer for a client of mine who are a leading Engineering and Tech firm operating within the UK defence sector.
Responsibilities:
* Working with senior client stakeholders to understand required technical capabilities and timelines across related sets of large-scale Information Systems delivery programmes.
- Provide a leadership role within the client-side team. Work with client-side functional leads to develop and action time bound organisational capability delivery increments.
- Work with delivery project teams to identify opportunities to trial new ways of working. Identify lessons learned and feedback into approach
- Provide outward facing support into Army HQ, Defence Digital and the Army end customer. Cohere approach with transformation activities running outside of immediate client-side delivery team.
Skills required:
- Experience of leading Enterprise-scale solution development or assessment within a defence context. Previous experience as a Design Authority in a complex Systems Engineering environment.
- Practical experience of leading transformation programmes whether in industry or client side.
- Experience of being an advocate for both Engineering and change activity.
- Knowledge of architecture methodologies, standards, frameworks and tools (preferably TOGAF/Archimate).
- Experience in the application of ITIL in the MoD domain
- Good awareness of Safety and Security Management practices in the MoD domain.
- Hands on experience of configuration management & baseline development through lifecycle on complex programmes
- Knowledge and understanding of Military Communications and Information Systems (CIS) and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems
