Overview
Serve as Chief Engineer and senior engineering authority for ESCS, maintaining technical direction and ensuring programme intent is delivered through a production-capable engineering path.
What you'll do
- Set engineering direction, technical guardrails, and decision routes across capability teams and suppliers.
- Own ESCS engineering strategy, technical baseline, engineering management plan, and technical decision records.
- 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, assuring designs, interfaces, and non-functional requirements.
- Drive repeatable deployment, automated testing, configuration management, observability, security, and documentation practices.
- Provide independent technical judgement for trade-offs involving delivery, cost, schedule, risk, and customer outcomes.
What you'll need
- Experience providing technical authority or engineering leadership for complex systems integration or enterprise platform delivery.
- Experience leading engineering across multiple disciplines rather than a single technology domain.
- Systems engineering and lifecycle assurance experience.
- Enterprise and solution architecture experience.
- Experience with COTS and SaaS integration, including API, event, and data-flow architecture.
- Cloud-native engineering skills, including Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps.
- Experience with non-functional requirements, security, and operational readiness.
Details
- Clearance requirements: SC required to start; SC required for the role.
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