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Technical Project Manager


Ref 07-00799
Region Europe
Location UK South East - Guildford
Division Electronic Systems Group
Job role Software Engineering
 
Company Overview

Detica specialises in collecting, managing and exploiting information to reveal actionable intelligence. We use this capability to help government and commercial clients reveal intelligence, maintain security and strengthen resilience in today’s complex operating environment. We also use our skills to assist clients with other information-intensive problems such as achieving regulatory compliance and understanding customer behaviour.

By combining technological innovation with in-depth industry knowledge, we have developed a range of world-class solutions centred on our expertise in intelligence, security and resilience. This is backed up with over thirty years’ experience of developing solutions to some of the most complex security problems. Our business and technical consultants offer a range of core services from strategy formulation through people and process change to the development, delivery and support of software and hardware technology. Our understanding of today’s information-intensive challenges has also led us to develop a range of specialist services and products based on our unique intellectual property.

Detica delivers projects of significant scale across government and commercial markets in the UK, US and continental Europe. Our principal clients are government agencies responsible for intelligence, security and resilience. We also assist civil government and commercial organisations with a critical national infrastructure remit.

Detica Electronic Systems Group is looking for a Technical Project Manager to expand our design teams.

Detica’s Electronic Systems Group provides the capability to design, build, install, and support world-leading technology. We develop hardware and software solutions to specific business and operational requirements. Our systems meet strenuous performance criteria and are characterised by innovative design frequently involving the latest FPGA technology for high speed data and signal processing.

Examples of products include gigabit speed packet processing platforms such as custom switches and routers; software radio systems implementing advanced signal processing techniques; and high speed floating point computation engines.

Our customers include a variety of government departments and defence, telecommunications and financial services companies, predominantly in the UK and US.


Requirements

This is an engineering and project management role that will involve

Managing all aspects of multi-disciplinary fixed price development projects, with budgets in the order of £500k to £2m

Providing leadership and management of small engineering teams to ensure excellent delivery to cost, quality and schedule on assigned projects

Pre- and post-sales client engagement

Bid and proposal generation, including estimation and pricing

Staff line management and mentoring

Experience required

A technical background in hardware, firmware or software development for electronic systems is essential

Technical and project management experience preferably in IP data telecommunications equipment, Defence or Law enforcement equipment domains

Bid and proposal generation

Fixed price project/programme delivery, including the application of systems engineering best practise and risk management


The Individual

The candidate should exhibit most, if not all, of the following characteristics:

Personal technical credibility

The ability to command the respect of and lead a high performance multi-disciplinary technical team

Ability to shape and develop new proposition

Commercially astute

Technically aware and able to "think on his/her feet"

You need to be able to achieve the highest level of security clearance for this role.


Locations

Guildford

With frequent travel between Detica & client sites.

 

Salary & Benefits

Competitive Basic Salary

Benefits

· Discretionary bonus scheme

· Access to Group Personal Pension scheme

· Access to the BAE Systems Share incentive Plan

· Private medical insurance covering yourself

· Travel insurance / Personal accident

· 25 days annual leave

· Life assurance

· Income protection

· Interest free season ticket loan

 

In addition, extra benefits outlined below can be purchased using your flexible benefits allowance:

· Pension scheme

· Additional private medical insurance

· Additional income protection

· Additional life assurance

· Life assurance for your spouse/partner

· Critical illness insurance

· Ability to select/exchange holiday

· Childcare vouchers

· Charitable giving

· Bikes to work

· Health assessments

· Dental insurance

· Employee discount scheme
 
You need to be able to achieve the highest level of security clearance for this role.


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