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SalaryAt Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.
People are Jacobs' greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.
In addition to the benefits you'd expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.
Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We're happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.
About the Opportunity
We are looking for an individual to join our team as Technical Lead across our portfolio of UK National Security work. You will be responsible for helping our clients to define their requirements for work on a technical framework that is predominantly software development-based, and which covers digital transformation, cloud solution development, data science, and in-service support. You will also be responsible for ensuring the quality of technical delivery across several teams.
Functions to support include:
- Technical lead on framework call-off bids
- QA of framework call-off work, including adherence to standards
- Visibility and engagement on technical collaboration opportunities
- Encourage regular formal and informal dialogue with the customer and across the partner ecosystem
- Attend Service Delivery Boards
- Technical representative for Change Management Board
- Technology horizon scanning for Continuous Improvement and Innovation
- Build and maintain senior relationships with internal and external stakeholders (customer and partners)
- Have excellent communication skills and be able to work collaboratively to deliver excellent client solutions.
- Regularly travel to client sites within the UK
Here's What You'll Need:
- Highly experienced in undertaking and overseeing/ managing high-assurance software development activities
- Experience working with internal and senior external stakeholders
- Experience building internal and external stakeholder relationships
- Experience of working with the Intelligence Community
- Experience in both agile and traditional delivery methodologies
Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.
We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we're more connected, and if we are diverse, we're more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you're pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women's - find out more about our employee networks here.
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