ITEA Lead

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Important: All applicants must be able to obtain Security Clearance (minimum 5 years UK residency).

Working: Possible flexible and some remote working potentials.

The ITEA Lead will be part of a high-impact, collaborative environment, where we expect everyone to live the values and standards of the British Army. Every person in our team plays a critical role in delivering the project's vision; designing, delivering, and transforming collective training so the British Army is ready to fight and win.

The ITEA Lead will work in a matrix organisation. Ultimately, you’ll work for the British Army, championing innovation, and helping shape the future of military collective training.

The ITEA Lead will provide leadership and ITEA oversight and management across the Army Collective Training Service (ACTS) deliverables. Reporting directly to the Chief Engineer, they will play a critical role in ensuring the ITEA Plan, verification and validation, assurance and acceptance of services and capabilities within the programme.

This role requires a systems-thinking mindset, strong stakeholder engagement skills, and the ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering teams in a complex and evolving environment. Given the programme's focus on modelling and simulation, familiarity with relevant standards and technologies is highly desirable.

Key responsibilities:

• Management of the integration, Test and Acceptance activities in accordance with the programme schedule.
• Requirements verification/validation analysis of the System/sub system, service or technical capability.
• Management of requirements traceability.
• Define and document and maintain the overarching ITEA strategy, plans, milestones and objectives.
• Attend customer chaired ITEA Working Groups to represent Training and co-ordinate ITEA activities for the programme.
• Manage and deliver all verification and validation activities including the preparation of Integration, Test and Acceptance Test Plans and Procedures, Acceptance Test Reports and Verification Cross Reference Matrices.
• Collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to establish clear, measurable acceptance and exit criteria for each test and assurance phase.
• Create and maintain comprehensive integrated test plans covering end-to-end progressive assurance, test cases, regression testing, and system integration.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams including QA, development, operations, and business SMEs in test execution, assurance and acceptance.
• Manage defect triage by defining severity, prioritising fixes, and ensuring timely resolution and re-validation.
• Monitor test progress and produce regular dashboards and reports on coverage, producing evidence for ITEA events.
• Ensure all testing activities comply with regulatory, security, and organisational quality standards.
• Communicate risks, issues, and readiness status to governance boards.
• Drive continuous improvement by capturing lessons learned and refining processes, tools, and automation.
• Represent ITEA interests in programme boards, technical reviews, stakeholder and customer facing engagements.
• Participating in design reviews and qualification activities, contributing to project milestones working towards system, capability and service acceptance.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Experience in producing and managing Verification and Validation Requirements Matrix (VVRM) across systems, services and capabilities.
• Managing and co-ordinating ITEA Teams.
• Creating and managing the relevant ITEA schedules, T&E Planning, ITEA Plans.
• Experience in a leadership role within complex, multi-disciplinary programmes.
• Broad technology experience, with demonstrable experience of capability development (people, process and technology).
• Experience in ITEA Sampling approaches and techniques.
• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles and processes.
• An understanding of assurance and acceptance processes.
• Test and Trial script planning experience and test automation.

Desirable Experience:

• Experience of IBM DOORS and/or JIRA tool is desirable.
• Experience with modelling and simulation technologies, including familiarity with standards such as HLA (High-Level Architecture), DIS (Distributed Interactive Simulation), and HLA4.
• Knowledge of defence or public sector engineering standards and regulatory frameworks.
• Experience in training transformation or learning platforms.
• Strong analytical skills and experience with data-driven engineering decision-making.
• Ability to mentor and develop junior engineers and technical staff.
• SAFe and/or ITIL4 certified.
• Knowledge of the MOD's GEAR framework.
• Testing and assurance in a training environment aligned with JSP 822.

Even if you feel like you don’t meet every requirement, we encourage you to reach out and apply.