DDAT - Lead Infrastructure Engineer

We are looking for a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to join our team with the Tactical Systems Service Executive of Defence Digital. The Lead Infrastructure Engineer requires a strong engineering management background alongside system engineering and system integration experience. The role assumes responsibility for the leadership of a multi-disciplinary engineering team and management of their associated technical activities. Crucially, the role provides Crown Servant leadership, accountability and decision making across key engineering functions, such as Cyber Security, Crypto and Systems Engineering.

Responsibilities;

You will be expected to carry out the following day to day activities:

Leadership, continuous professional development and management of engineering teams and their associated technical activities.
Provision of expert engineering and technical knowledge in support of solution definition and development.
Self-governance to ensure technical delivery is achieved within a hybrid programme compromising of specific (scope, time and cost) outputs combined with a number of different programmatic delivery methodologies.
Ability to provide challenge and be challenged, set direction and resolve issues.
Accurate forecasting of System Engineering resource demands and SQEP requirements.
Monitoring Technical / Engineering risks (threats and opportunities) which are held across the portfolio.
Supporting and guiding others in identifying and managing technical dependencies.
Work with specialist engineering functional groups (including security, safety, ILS, human factors) as required to validate concepts and designs.
Ensuring adherence to engineering governance and the application of quality processes across the engineering discipline, demonstrating leadership and guidance across the community.

Due to the nature of the role you will need to be prepared to travel to meetings within the UK (and/or potential occasional overseas visits).

For more information on the Infrastructure Engineer profession please see the Government Digital and Data Framework