Job Description

Project Technical Authority (PTA)

Location: Farnborough, Hampshire

Work Pattern: Full-time, Onsite

About the Role

The Advanced Mission Planning Aid (AMPA) provides mission planning capabilities across a wide range of fixed-wing platforms and has a proven track record supporting both UK and international customers.

As a well-established product family, most development activity focuses on enhancing and evolving mature software components, delivering new capabilities and improvements to meet changing customer needs.

We're looking for a Project Technical Authority (PTA) to provide technical leadership across a portfolio of software change projects. You'll play a pivotal role in shaping technical solutions, guiding engineering teams and ensuring successful delivery from concept through to customer acceptance.

Working closely with Project Managers, Product Design Authorities and Subject Matter Experts, you'll take ownership of technical planning and delivery, helping to ensure that solutions meet both customer requirements and long-term product strategy.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced software or systems engineer who enjoys combining technical leadership, stakeholder engagement and hands-on problem-solving within a collaborative Agile environment.

What You'll Be Doing

As a PTA, you'll:

• Define and guide technical solutions from requirements through to delivery and customer acceptance.
• Break down complex technical scope into manageable work packages for Agile delivery teams.
• Create and maintain project engineering plans and technical backlogs.
• Work closely with Software, Systems and Operational SMEs to define requirements, acceptance criteria and delivery priorities.
• Ensure solutions align with product strategy and architectural direction.
• Support design reviews, technical decision-making and risk management activities.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle.
• Monitor project progress and communicate issues, risks and dependencies clearly to stakeholders.
• Support customer engagement activities alongside project and programme teams.
• Ensure appropriate verification and validation activities are completed to support qualification and acceptance.

What We're Looking For

Essential Skills & Experience

We're interested in people who can demonstrate:

• Experience leading technical activities across the software development lifecycle.
• Experience working within Agile delivery environments using Scrum and/or Kanban.
• Strong requirements gathering and analysis skills, including translating customer needs into detailed system and software requirements.
• The ability to estimate work, identify risks and manage technical dependencies.
• Experience in both Functional and Object-Oriented design.
• Strong review and assurance skills, including design reviews, code reviews and technical walkthroughs.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• A collaborative approach with the ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
• Eligibility to meet UK Government and contractual personnel security requirements applicable to the role.

Desirable Skills & Experience

It would be advantageous if you have experience in any of the following:

• Software development within regulated or safety-critical environments.
• Software Safety and Security Standards.
• Military Aviation Authority (MAA) Regulatory Articles.
• C/C++ development on Linux platforms.
• System architecture, multi-threading, memory management and inter-process communication.
• Service-oriented or distributed systems.
• Geospatial Information Systems (GIS).
• Defence, aerospace or mission-critical engineering environments.
• Tools such as: Sparx Enterprise Architect DOORS HP ALM Rational ClearCase Rational ClearQuest

Why Join Us?

You'll have the opportunity to help shape the future of a mission-critical product used by defence customers around the world, working alongside experienced engineers in a collaborative and supportive environment.

We offer opportunities for professional development, technical growth and career progression while working on complex and meaningful engineering challenges.

Security Requirements

Due to the nature of the work and the customers we support, the successful candidate must be eligible to meet UK Government and contractual personnel security requirements, including the applicable residency requirements for the role, and have the right to work in the United Kingdom. Some roles may also be subject to nationality requirements where these are necessary to meet UK Government or contractual security obligations.

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