Role: Chief Engineer
Type: Contract
Stance: Outside IR35
Location: Gloucester/Hybrid
Clearance: BPSS / SC
Start Date: ASAP
Rate: £700 - £775 per day
Responsbilities:
- 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.
- Support effective technical decision making as required and present clear ways ahead for stakeholders. Seek to empower others (client team members and colleagues providing client-side support)
- Help drive improvements in the operation of key delivery programmes to become 'architecturally led' and to benefit from System of Systems & service thinking.
- Identify and safeguard commercially sensitive information to be retained client side only.
Skills & Experience:
- 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.
- Knowledge and understanding of Military Communications and Information Systems (CIS) and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems.
- Practical experience of leading transformation programmes whether in industry or client side.
- 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 programs.
- Understanding of both the military customer and defence procurement.
- Understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) (Desirable).
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