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 will:

• Allocate and prioritise the applications teams workload in order to manage and maintain the Application Baseline across multiple domains.

• Producing and maintaining Workflow Processes for the Applications Team considering improvement throughout the teams development.

• Attend Daily Operational Update Meetings.

• Producing and Presenting a Core Services Weekly Report on Tasking within the Application Team and relaying that Report to Management on a Weekly basis.

• Coordinate the priority of tasking to achieve larger elements of work to be completed.

• 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.

• Liaise with all appropriate teams to ensure a seamless flow of information not just with 2nd and 3rd Line engineers but across the wider organisation including sub-contractor SMEs and customer Resolver groups;

• Under the direction of the Operations Technical Lead coordinate the maintenance and delivery small and large application upgrades for a fixed and deployed environment.

• Provide clients with technical support as needed and relay information to our development teams for ongoing maintenance and update needs.

• Integrate with ITAM and obsolescence who will provide the vendor information on software lifecycles and maintenance agreements.

• Optimize applications by integrating new technologies and performing upgrades

• Perform diagnostic tests and debugging procedures while improving code and re-designing tasks

• Generate ideas for software innovation based on market trends

• Document and develop processes procedures and application version histories

• Keep up with advancements in application engineering and new technologies

• Enhance and development Leidoss relationship with MOD Military and other Contractors;

• Support the Investigation and resolution of problems relating to Application Deployment

• 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;

• 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;

• Ensure the FSR is managed and maintained. (or ensure information to the FSR is accurate)

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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 dont want someone who fits the moldwe want someone who melts it down and builds something better. This is a role for the restless the over-caffeinated the ones who ask whats next before the dust settles on whats now.

If youre already scheming step 20 while everyone else is still debating step 2 good. Youll fit right in.

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Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.