Want to join a company is a recognised innovation and technology leader, tackling highly complex challenges across multiple defence and aerospace domains? Join a business who deliver advanced systems and services to customers worldwide and is widely regarded as a trusted, high-performing organisation within its market!
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Important: All applicants must be able to obtain Security Clearance *minimum 5 years UK residency*
Working: Possible Flexible and some remote working potentials.
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The ITEA Lead will be part of a high-impact, collaborative environment, where we expect everyone to live the values and standards of the British Army. Every person in our team plays a critical role in delivering the project's vision; designing, delivering, and transforming collective training so the British Army is ready to fight and win.
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The ITEA Lead will work in a matrix organisation. Ultimately, you'll work for the British Army, championing innovation, and helping shape the future of military collective training.
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The ITEA Lead will provide leadership and ITEA oversight and management across the Army Collective Training Service (ACTS) deliverables. Reporting directly to the Chief Engineer, they will play a critical role in ensuring the ITEA Plan, verification and validation, assurance and acceptance of services and capabilities within the programme.
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This role requires a systems-thinking mindset, strong stakeholder engagement skills, and the ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering teams in a complex and evolving environment. Given the programme's focus on modelling and simulation, familiarity with relevant standards and technologies is highly desirable.
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Company Highlights:
- Join a globally recognised technology and defence leader, repeatedly awarded for innovation, patents and engineering excellence across aerospace, defence, space and cyber.
- A organisation trusted by governments worldwide, delivering mission-critical systems and recognised with Gold status by the UK Ministry of Defence for its support of the armed forces community.
- Be part of a business consistently ranked among the top innovators in the aerospace and defence sector, combining cutting-edge technology with long term programme stability, including high-profile contracts with government and allied partners worldwide.
- Explore the chance to work on cutting-edge, nationally significant projects with real-world impact, not theoretical R&D.
- A business, known for a strong culture of innovation, inclusion and long term career development, backed by the scale and stability of a global industry leader.
Key responsibilities:
- Management of the integration, Test and Acceptance activities in accordance with the programme schedule.
- Requirements verification/validation analysis of the System/sub system, service or technical capability.
- Management of requirements traceability.
- Define and document and maintain the overarching ITEA strategy, plans, milestones and objectives.
- Attend customer chaired ITEA Working Groups to represent Training and co-ordinate ITEA activities for the programme.
- Manage and deliver all verification and validation activities including the preparation of Integration, Test and Acceptance Test Plans and Procedures, Acceptance Test Reports and Verification Cross Reference Matrices.
- Collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to establish clear, measurable acceptance and exit criteria for each test and assurance phase.
- Create and maintain comprehensive integrated test plans covering end-to-end progressive assurance, test cases, regression testing, and system integration.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams-including QA, development, operations, and business SMEs-in test execution, assurance and acceptance.
- Manage defect triage by defining severity, prioritizing fixes, and ensuring timely resolution and re-validation.
- Monitor test progress and produce regular dashboards and reports on coverage, producing evidence for ITEA events.
- Ensure all testing activities comply with regulatory, security, and organisational quality standards.
- Communicate risks, issues, and readiness status to governance boards.
- Drive continuous improvement by capturing lessons learned and refining processes, tools, and automation.
- Represent ITEA interests in programme boards, technical reviews, stakeholder and customer facing engagements.
- Participating in design reviews and qualification activities, contributing to project milestones working towards system, capability and service acceptance.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Experience in producing and managing Verification and Validation Requirements Matrix (VVRM) across systems, services and capabilities.
- Managing and co-ordinating ITEA Teams.
- Creating and managing the relevant ITEA schedules, T&E Planning, ITEA Plans.
- Experience in a leadership role within complex, multi-disciplinary programmes.
- Broad technology experience, with demonstrable experience of capability development (people, process and technology).
- Experience in ITEA Sampling approaches and techniques.
- Strong understanding of systems engineering principles and processes.
- An understanding of assurance and acceptance processes.
- Test and Trial script planning experience and test automation.
Desirable Experience:
- Experience of IBM DOORS and \ or JIRA tool is desirable.
- Experience with modelling and simulation technologies, including familiarity with standards such as HLA (High-Level Architecture), DIS (Distributed Interactive Simulation), and HLA4.
- Knowledge of defence or public sector engineering standards and regulatory frameworks.
- Experience in training transformation or learning platforms.
- Strong analytical skills and experience with data-driven engineering decision-making.
- Ability to mentor and develop junior engineers and technical staff.
- SAFe and\or ITIL4 certified.
- Knowledge of the MOD's GEAR framework.
- Testing and assurance in a training environment aligned with JSP 822.
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Even If you feel like you don't meet every requirement, we encourage you to reach out and apply.
