Head of Domain Delivery - BU in Reading

Head of Domain Delivery - BU

Closing date: 10th August 2026

Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

Package: A competitive salary aligned with the seniority and impact of this role.

Working Pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight, with every other Friday as a non-working day. For this role, employees are required to work fully onsite. We support flexible working arrangements where possible, including part-time and varied working hours, while maintaining an onsite presence. Please let us know if you would like us to consider an alternative working pattern as part of your application.

Ready to play your part? As Head of Domain Delivery, you will lead the strategic interface between AWE's business units and Digital Services, ensuring business demand is accurately captured, prioritised, and translated into secure, scalable digital and data solutions. Overseeing a team of Domain Leads, you will drive alignment with enterprise architecture, strategic priorities, and delivery governance, strengthening domain-led change across the organisation.

Key Accountabilities

• Accountable for ensuring that Domain Leads effectively capture, prioritise, and scope digital initiatives in alignment with business value and strategic goals.
• Provide leadership and direction to Domain Leads, ensuring clear ownership of delivery outcomes and alignment with organisational objectives.
• Define and maintain strategic standards and policies for the development, testing, deployment, and lifecycle management of digital solutions.
• Oversee domain-level data governance, ensuring compliance with data integrity, access, retention, and interoperability standards - especially across UK-US systems.
• Ensure robust governance across service design, testing, and transition, guaranteeing that digital services are fit for purpose and meet stakeholder expectations.
• Ensure domain delivery activities are integrated with enterprise-wide architecture, cybersecurity, and delivery assurance frameworks.

Who are we looking for?

• Proven Leadership of complex digital, data or IT-enabled transformation programmes across multiple business domains.
• Experience with structured delivery frameworks (e.g., portfolio management, architecture governance, agile/waterfall delivery models).
• Deep understanding of capability-led design and operating model transformation.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills across business and technical functions.
• Excellent communication and influencing abilities.

Work hard, be rewarded

We ask a lot and set the bar high because our work truly matters.

In return we offer balance, with award winning benefits including

• 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
• Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
• Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.

Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process. Our ambition is to create workplaces where we recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and our employees feel able to be themselves at work. We strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants. Any inclusion information you provide will be stored in accordance with GDPR and kept separate from your application form and CV, and the information will not be shared with anyone involved in interviewing or making hiring decisions.

Important things you need to know

• You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE.
• The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.
• Please note that you must be a British Citizen to apply for a role with us.

We are at the start of a once in a generation - possibly two generations - programme to design and produce a replacement warhead for the UK’s continuous at sea deterrent. We will do this while continuing to deliver the Trident programme as well as managing ambitious state-of-the-art capital and construction projects - some of which have never been done before.