Enterprise Engineer / Architect in Sheffield

Role description:

Assist in establishing the engineering excellence program across Cyber, building a community of practice to drive consistency standardisation and a culture of automation and continuous improvement across teams

Key responsibilities:

• Embed engineering efficiency, improvement and engineering best practice across cyber with clarity on process, system and tools.

• Partnering with the Engineering leads and capability owners to ensure desired outcomes are achieved.

• Work with the engineering teams in setting requirements that develop services and capabilities that meet the controls needed but also appeal to a broad customer base and enable operational efficiency throughout our value stream.

• Facilitate the creation, evolution and implementation of standard build and deployment pipelines across Cyber.

• Engage with Cyber engineering teams to build, enhance and adopt these pipeplines.

• Champion cross functional reuse across new product introduction, gaining clear ownership and accountability to improve our product time to market.

• Engage with other engineering teams across Cyber and business to create a build once and use many times approach.

• Coach and support the Agile teams to ensure full consideration of ‘concept to product to customer’ is achieved through the upfront obsession of customer needs, adoption of standard patterns / approaches and drive a culture of inner sourcing and reuse.

• Identify standards and patterns which need to be developed / adopted to drive consistency and efficiency in our ways of working, and lead on their production and implementation.

• Partner with the product management teams to enable improved business case outcomes when selecting external products through a standardised product selection approach ensuring non- functional engineering requirements needed for effective operation are included as standard and not just functional requirements.

Key skills/knowledge/experience:

• Strong DevOps skills and experience – both hands on and at design level.

• Have degree (or equivalent) in Engineering or a related Scientific discipline.

• Have extensive experience working as a senior engineer or Technical Architect

• Have extensive experience leading in high-tech or high-change environments, with a proven ability to build, develop, and lead high-performing, cross- functional teams.

• Have led or significantly contributed to one or more engineering improvement initiatives in large complex organisations

• Be technically resilient and solutions- focused, with strong analytical thinking and the ability to assess complex technical, commercial, and regulatory inputs.

• Have strong demonstrated people management capability, with experience operating across global, decentralised teams.

• Have proven ability to influence, build relationships, and drive strategic plans with clear, actionable outcomes.

• Be action orientated and shown track record of delivery to commitments

• Have a track record of delivering results in complex, matrixed environments, with a deep understanding of design authority, engineering quality, safety and compliance.

• Be experienced in systems engineering and requirements management to enable innovative, scalable solutions.

• Have excellent communication, influencing, and negotiation skills, with the presence to engage effectively at senior levels across diverse culture

• Fluent in spoken and written English, with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively across global teams