Systems Engineering Delivery Manager
Posted 17 hours 42 minutes ago by Expleo
Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe.
This role is for a Engineering Team Lead to support and strengthen delivery within our Marine Capability portfolio, based on client site in Rochester.
This role provides visible, on-site technical leadership across a multi-disciplinary engineering team spanning Systems, Electronics and Safety disciplines. Operating within an agile sprint-based delivery framework, the successful candidate will ensure structured backlog governance, embedded technical review discipline, and predictable, high-quality delivery within a regulated defence environment. In addition to delivery leadership, this role carries functional responsibility for the development, performance and capability growth of local engineering team members, contributing to the wider Systems Engineering function. Initial full-time on site presence is required to embed governance stability, with a view to hybrid working once delivery maturity is established.
Responsibilities- The Engineering Team Lead will :
- Lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team delivering Systems, Electronics and Safety outputs.
- Own and enforce structured backlog governance in collaboration with the Project Manager.
- Chair sprint ceremonies (e.g., DSUM, backlog refinement, sprint planning).
- Ensure all engineering tasking is formally captured, prioritised and routed through sprint governance.
- Embed technical review activities within sprint capacity planning.
- Maintain oversight of technical compliance with contractual, legislative and quality requirements.
- Identify and mitigate technical, schedule and delivery risks early.
- Act as the primary on-site technical point of contact for the customer.
- Support performance management, objective setting and career development of local team members.
- Identify training needs and contribute to capability and skills matrix development within the functional organisation.
- Support technical recruitment and candidate assessment where required.
- Provide feedback to Head of Function and Chief Engineer on capability gaps and future skills demand.
- Drive continuous improvement in engineering governance, quality and delivery discipline.
- Contribute to identification of structured work package opportunities within the account.
- Act as an ambassador for Expleo engineering standards and professional conduct.
- HND / Degree qualified in Engineering or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
- Chartered Engineer status desirable but not mandatory.
- Sole UK National
- Must hold, or be eligible to obtain, UK Security Clearance (SC).
- Strong Systems Engineering background with multi-disciplinary awareness.
- Experience leading engineering teams in regulated or defence environments.
- Demonstrable experience operating within agile or sprint-based delivery models.
- Proven ability to enforce structured backlog and delivery governance.
- Experience embedding technical review processes within live project environments.
- Experience supporting employee performance management and development.
- Confident stakeholder management and boundary-setting capability.
- Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Commercial awareness within structured delivery environments.
- Working familiarity with Safety Engineering principles.
- Working familiarity with Electronics Development environments.
- Experience operating within capacity-based or structured delivery models.
- Experience strengthening governance within established customer accounts.
- Familiarity with defence quality frameworks and regulated engineering standards.
- Experience contributing to wider functional capability planning.
- Significant experience (typically 8+ years) within engineering delivery environments.
- Prior experience as Engineer Team Lead, Technical Lead, Engineering Manager, or equivalent senior role.
- Experience managing multi-stakeholder demand within complex customer organisations.
- Experience supporting team development and mentoring engineers across disciplines.
- Evidence of restoring or strengthening structured delivery discipline in live programmes.
- Experience operating with visible technical authority within customer environments.
- SC clearance already in place
Other Factors:
- Initial full-time on-site presence required in Rochester, Kent.
- Hybrid working available once governance stability is achieved; and with customer consent.
- Regular collaboration events with Expleo's Systems Engineering Hub in Bristol.
- Occasional travel to other Expleo or client sites may be required.
- Permanent position only.
- Competitive salary aligned to senior-level engineering leadership.
- Collaborative working environment - we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ourpeers through good times and challenges
- We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
- ExpleoAcademy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
- Competitive company benefits
- Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo
- As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
- Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
- Communicating and promoting vacancies
- Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
- Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
- Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people
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