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