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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