Cyber Business Our Cyber business unit is at the forefront of pioneering advanced cryptographic and key management solutions, facilitating the confidential exchange of vital information for customers operating at both tactical and strategic echelons. Join our team and participate in the innovation that ensures the highest security and trust worldwide. Why you should join us as a Systems Engineering Manager: * Overcome complex and technical challenges where the delivered capability has world-wide impact. * Develop capability for safeguarding sovereign and national interest – supporting the ability to defend against threats, capitalising new technology advancements and approaches. * Drive innovation within our dedicated Cyber Centre of Excellence as one of the leaders in the field of Cyber capability. * Opportunity to work across the full project lifecycle, gaining exposure to a wide variety of projects and programmes (ranging from investigation and research, concept demonstration, full project lifecycle and through life enhancements). * Lead and inspire a multi disciplined team. * Champion process improvement to deliver impact/ long term value. * Strong emphasis on continuous learning and personal development. Key responsibilities as a Systems Engineering Manager: * Own, lead and assure the execution of agreed scope of engineering for delivery of projects of a variety of sizes/scale. * Leads, defines, delegates and monitors the tasking and the dependencies relating to engineering activities distributed cross the multi-discipline project team * Ensure a systematic approach across all required disciplines in the project team, Supports the Program Management team in the planning and scheduling of their project; proposes optimisations to schedule logic that improve schedule. * Proactively working with wider business stakeholders, especially governance, to ensure processes are followed/tailored agreements are implemented upon and maintained. * Continuous realisation of resource and dependency needs to permit upskills, supply and recruitment; working with the discipline leads to ensure that resource/capability requirements are agreed; provides input to longer term recruitment/supply strategy (skills and/or tooling gap identification etc.); adapts to manage resource problems on project to achieve budgets. * Ensures that project engineering artefacts are delivered to an agreed governance level/maturity, to budget and schedule; seamlessly identifies and implements solutions to remedy overspend or schedule slip; strives to beat schedule and improve margin. * Quickly and clearly raises resource concerns or any other project constraints risking value/success; proposes and manages solutions. * Articulates and quantifies technical risks on the project; actively manages their mitigation to minimise risk to project within the schedule. * Coordinates all engineering resources on the project; delegation of day-today tasking. * Oversight of change, scoping the potential impact, risks, dependencies, benefits and costs. Working with stakeholders to achieve change agreements. * Effectively resolves any concerns with other dependent functional domains (e.g. production engineering, test facilities); optimises business needs across all functions. * Not necessarily a technical expert, but sufficiently knowledgeable of the Systems Engineering life cycle and sufficiently technically competent to manage technical teams to completion of work packages. To deliver the required value the Systems Engineering Manager should have: * Demonstrate full knowledge of the Systems Engineering lifecycle, V and numerous development models (Iterative, Incremental etc) * Proven engineering management, technical leadership and mentoring skills, with experience of overseeing a team of a minimum of 10 multi-discipline engineers. * Experience of strategy, planning and design of complex solutions, as either standalone capability or for integrating in/with other systems. * Confident in quantifying Basis of Estimate costs for pursuits and change opportunities * Proven Systems Engineering techniques/methods, i.e modelling, to quantify and capture capability use and employment, resulting in a needs definition. * Identify project growth and development opportunities from internal and external influence. * Experience engineering lifecycle tools and their use to manage the work, configuration management, traceability and support the generation of metrics. * Experienced in creating work breakdown structure, with a value basis, where the realisation of the required artefacts achieves internal process and external contract commitments. * Support external engagement, with travel, to both customer and supplier meetings, as the team lead and a key project/business representative. * Hands-on expertise in a number of the following areas: Command & Control Defence systems, sensors, communications, encryption, land/maritime/airborne capability * Demonstrable experience in delivery of proven regulated/legislation aligned solutions within UK Defence/Aerospace industry