Technify Talent
Lead Project Engineer
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Lead Project Engineer
Newbury (Hybrid)
£90,000 + bonus
We're hiring on behalf of a fast-growing, well-funded technology company building security systems that combine software and physical devices. Their platforms are used to protect people and high-value sites, and the business is scaling rapidly.
The role
We're looking for a Lead Project Engineer to build, from the ground up, how engineering delivery actually works as the company scales. This isn't a role where you inherit an existing process, you'll design and stand up a lightweight requirements-management practice, own project planning and tracking across multiple engineering disciplines, and take responsibility for how complex system components integrate with one another.
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You'll start hands-on, doing the work yourself, before growing and leading a small team of business analysts and systems engineers as the practice matures.
What you'll be doing
- Designing and implementing a requirements management and traceability process from scratch, appropriate to a fast-scaling technical organisation
- Owning delivery planning, tracking and reporting across software, data and systems engineering teams
- Managing interface control and integration dependencies across a complex, multi-disciplinary system
- Building and leading a small team as the function grows
- Working closely with senior engineering leadership to shape how the practice evolves
What we're looking for
- Proven experience building a requirements or engineering-process practice from nothing within a complex, multi-team technical environment
- Strong working knowledge of tools such as Azure DevOps, DOORS, Jama or Polarion
- Technical credibility, comfortable reading code and understanding distributed, integrated systems well enough to challenge engineering decisions
- Sound judgement on how much process is right for a scaling organisation, rather than a preference for heavyweight frameworks
- Eligible for UK Security Clearance (existing clearance a plus)
- Experience working in aerospace, aviation, military or defence
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