Application Engineer Lead

Application Engineer Lead

Location: Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire UK

Security Clearance: High - DV 'Developed Vetting'

Your Role and Responsibilities

The role of the Application Engineer Lead is to manage the Applications Team Engineers in order to meet business priorities when maintaining the suite of applications across multiple domains supporting Geospatial capability. They will work closely with 2nd and 3rd Line Engineers and Agile change teams to ensure the applications baseline is maintained, ensuring the operational users have the most up to date applications to meet mission requirements. You will:

1. Allocate and prioritize the applications team's workload in order to manage and maintain the Application Baseline across multiple domains.
2. Producing and maintaining Workflow Processes for the Applications Team, considering improvement throughout the team's development.
3. Attend Daily Operational Update Meetings.
4. Producing and Presenting a Core Services Weekly Report on Tasking within the Application Team and relaying that Report to Management on a Weekly basis.
5. Coordinate the priority of tasking to achieve larger elements of work to be completed.
6. Provide support to Core Services and Agile Change Teams ensuring the application baseline is maintained and ensuring the operational users have the most up to date applications to meet mission requirements.
7. Liaise with all appropriate teams to ensure a seamless flow of information not just with 2nd and 3rd Line engineers but across the wider organization, including sub-contractor SMEs and customer Resolver groups;
8. Under the direction of the Operations Technical Lead coordinate the maintenance and delivery small and large application upgrades for a fixed and deployed environment.
9. Provide clients with technical support as needed and relay information to our development teams for ongoing maintenance and update needs.
10. Integrate with ITAM and obsolescence who will provide the vendor information on software lifecycles and maintenance agreements.
11. Optimize applications by integrating new technologies and performing upgrades
12. Perform diagnostic tests and debugging procedures while improving code and re-designing tasks
13. Generate ideas for software innovation based on market trends
14. Document and develop processes, procedures and application version histories
15. Keep up with advancements in application engineering and new technologies
16. Enhance and development Leidos's relationship with MOD, Military and other Contractors;
17. Support the Investigation and resolution of problems relating to Application Deployment
18. Review and awareness of any Hardware or Software changes to the systems that we support to ensure impacts are understood and are managed through to deployment;
19. Support the deployment of any software Application or patch that ensures the system maintains accreditation by managing MODCERT Alerts and Directives, ensuring that all those that are relevant are applied. If the MODCERT is not applied, then a Risk is raised and placed on the MOD Risk Register with good reasoning as to why the MODCERT was not applied;
20. Ensure the FSR is managed and maintained. (or ensure information to the FSR is accurate)

Are you ready to make an impact? Begin your journey of a flourishing and meaningful career, share your CV with us today!

Everything we do is built on our commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our employees, and our communities. Learn more about the values and culture that are the foundations of our business. Our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in national security, defence, government, logistics and operations, transportation, and energy.

What we do for you: At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
• Access to Flexi-time benefits

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & EUROPE – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different: Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

At Leidos, we don't want someone who "fits the mold"—we want someone who melts it down and builds something better. This is a role for the restless, the over-caffeinated, the ones who ask, "what's next?" before the dust settles on "what's now."

If you're already scheming step 20 while everyone else is still debating step 2… good. You'll fit right in.