Engineering Functional Specialist in Preston, Lancashire

Functional Specialist
Location: Various - any site can be considered. Working from home.
Salary: £45- 50k

You will work as part of the Lead Capability team, working on projects and programmes that have the potential to shape the businesses engineering capability for the next decade, and help engineers working on a diverse set of deliverables from Submarines to aircraft to data science and analytics services to do their jobs effectively.

As part of this team you will have the opportunity to work in a high performing, diverse and distributed team made up of individuals based across the country.
The role is an exciting one, presenting the individual with the potential to influence how the companies Engineering function is shaped for the future and the opportunity to engage across all sectors to secure an appropriate alignment of our engineering capabilities.

You'll be responsible for:
* Working across the business Sectors and Lines of Business to develop a common taxonomy and architecture for our engineering capabilities.
* Develop a working model of this architecture and continuously sustain and improve it
* Foster cross functional relationships to ensure the architecture interacts appropriately with other functional artefacts (for example IM&T Application Architecture)
* Support functional Subject Matter Experts to exploit the architecture and support its interaction with their own Sector and Line of Business models.
* Horizon scan emerging engineering capabilities to ensure they are appropriately reflected within the architecture
* Ensure the architecture is embedded and utilised within appropriate business processes.
* Support activities that seek to transformation our functional processes to ensure the Engineering capability keeps pace with the rate of technological change.
* Support engagement with external suppliers to help improve and align our engineering capabilities across all of the businesses sectors.

Essential skills and experiences:
* Experience of architecting tools such as Sparx EA or CAMEO Systems Modeller or Cameo No Magic.
* A strong understanding of Architecture principles and processes such as SysML and TOGAF.
* STEM degree

Desirable skills and experiences:
* An understanding of wider Systems Engineering principles
* An awareness of Engineering Capability Management

Benefits:
You'll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You'll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission.