Bristol
MBDA are accelerating their digital journey to support the efficient delivery of our Engineering Business Lines (Programmes) and are seeing an experienced Digital Solutions Manager to help drive this change.
Salary: Circa £65,000 depending on experience
Dynamic (hybrid) working: 1-2 days per week on-site due to workload classification
Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship
Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.
What we can offer you:
Company Bonus: Bonus of up to 21% of base salary
Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more...The opportunity:
The Digital Solutions Engineering team are seeking an experienced and flexible IT specialist to be a Team Manager working with the Business Lines team. You will support the definition and delivery of new solutions and will create, pioneer and revise solutions for the benefit of the all the engineering functions across the business.
Your initial focus on the current improvement initiatives which could include small and large solution design as well as some project or task management responsibilities for early stages of projects. A key driver for MBDA is to retain and build the knowledge of our enterprise within the internal teams.
You will be a key team member, with Architects, Analysts and Integration specialists, as we seek to improve the standards and repeatability of our application offerings across the group. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a growing team supporting the key lifecycle management applications for the company, to learn new toolsets and share your knowledge and experience whilst developing and refining your information systems skills.
What we're looking for from you:
A broad level of technical information technology and information systems knowledge in a defence level environment. Knowledge of Model Base Engineering and Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools as well of an awareness of agile techniques is an advantage.
Experience of enterprise application lifecycle management of information systems including solution design, acquisition, testing, release and deployment, as well as appreciation of operational needs. This should include proven solution skills are required, but training can be given for specific Architecture skills such a TOGAFF, UAF, DODAF.
Ability to coordinate resources, internal and external with, a good level of technical competence to ensure solutions are created to the operational and security standards required for the defence industry.
The role is not limited to the existing tools sets or engineering areas experience of industry tools for Product Lifecycle Management, Engineering Lifecycle Management and Service Lifecycle Management but awareness of some of the following would be highly desirable - for example PTC Windchill; IBM ELM/Jazz; CARL Source; Pure:Variants; Ansys various offerings; Dassaut 3D Experience;Our company: Peace is not a given, Freedom is not a given, Sovereignty is not a given
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