Product Delivery Manager (Defence)

Product Delivery Manager (Defence) - Contract role - Reading - £competitive

Synergize Consulting are now hiring for a Product Delivery Manager to work at a leading defence client, on a contract basis.

The successful candidate will work in a pivotal leadership role, driving the transition from document-centric to authoritative model-centric engineering - ensuring end-to-end traceability from capability requirements through architecture, interfaces, analysis, simulation, verification, and compliance evidence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Taking accountability for delivering and continuously improving the digital engineering capabilities that support a System of Systems (SoS) workstream.

• Own and evolve the SoS digital capability, including architecture modelling, integration, configuration/change control, variant management, and digital thread integration.

• Define SoS reference architectures and technical baselines aligned to enterprise standards and regulatory requirements.

• Deliver integrated toolchains enabling full life cycle traceability across capability, operational scenarios, system allocations, interfaces, verification, and test evidence.

• Translate business and engineering needs into a clear roadmap, prioritising backlogs, and delivery plans aligned to programme increments.

• Lead stakeholder engagement, supplier coordination, vendor performance, and service management across complex, multi-partner environments.

• Establish governance for models, data standards, baselining, versioning, and auditability.

• Drive adoption through training, model governance, and model-centric reviews.

Experience Required:

• Significant experience delivering MBSE/SoS digital capabilities ideally gained in either the aerospace, defence, or other regulated industries.

• Strong expertise in UAF/DoDAF-aligned architecture modelling, SysML/UML, IBM DOORS NG, interface management, configuration control, and digital thread integration.

• Proven experience managing complex toolchains, suppliers, and cross-domain integration in safety-critical environments.

• Service Management (eg, ITIL) and Project/Programme Management (eg, PRINCE2, APM, SAFe) certification or equivalent experience.

• Excellent stakeholder engagement, financial management, and delivery leadership skills.

• Due to the nature of the client, it would be an advantage for candidates to hold, or be eligible and willing to undergo, a certain level of security clearance (SC).

If you are looking to take the next exciting step in your IT career, please send in your CV for immediate consideration.