Description
SC/DV Cleared Head of Design Delivery | Wiltshire | 8 Months | £We are currently recruiting for an interim Head of Design Delivery on behalf of our defence client. You will help build the engineering design team and ensure the delivery of engineering tasks and design documentation.
Essential Skills
*Degree qualified in Engineering or Computer Science related subject, Chartered Engineer or Chartered IT Professional (i.e. CEng or CITP), Engineering or Computer Science related professional qualification (i.e. MIET or MBCS)
*5+ years' experience in Head of Design or Engineering Programme Manager role
*15+ years' experience in design and establishment of engineering delivery; organisations across design, development, test and release to service
*Experience and skills in Agile programme and project management methods
*Formal Agile certification required (i.e. CSM, PMI-ACP or PRINCE2 Agile),ITIL Foundation Certificate in Service Management; Platform Services
*Formal programme and project management certification (MSP and PRINCE2 preferred, PMP, etc.)
*15+ years' mission critical systems engineering experience
*Experience of managing and chairing of engineering design reviews (SRRs, PDRs, CDRs, PRRs, etc.);
*Extensive expertise in IT Infrastructure and applications design and delivery
*Delivery of deployed platforms into limited bandwidth environments, including mobile
*Software defined data-centre virtualisation techniques and products (e.g. VMware)
*10+ years' software development experience
*Application migration experience
*Security principles including, encryption and security of networks at IL3 and IL5
*Technical management of multiple hardware and software suppliers
*Delivery of IT services worldwide across multiple suppliers and geographic boundaries
*Experience in the release of Bills of Materials (BOMs), hardware drawings and designs
*Continuous Delivery Models (e.g. DevOps)
*Familiarity with Atlassian toolset (JIRA, Confluence and Bitbucket)
Nice to Have
*Agile coach experience including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Kaizen, etc
*Experience of deployed mission systems (e.g. mission planning systems)
*Orchestration techniques and products (e.g. Ansible, Puppet)
*Remote access and mobile technologies
*Tactical communication network technologies
*Worldwide transition and convergence of multiple systems covering: users, applications, infrastructure and data
*Delivery of secure IT systems into non-UK geographies
Please note that the selected candidate must have active DV clearance or be eligible to obtain DV level security clearance.
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