Chief Engineer SC cleared

Chief Engineer (SC Cleared or higher) - Outside IR35 Location: Hybrid (3 Days Onsite per Week) Rate: Up to £750 per day Outside IR35 Clearance: Active SC or DV Clearance Required Overview We're seeking an experienced Chief Engineer to provide technical leadership across complex government and secure-sector programmes.

You'll be responsible for setting engineering standards, driving technical excellence, and ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with delivery objectives across multiple teams. This role combines engineering leadership, architecture assurance, and hands-on technical guidance within a highly secure environment.

Responsibilities Define and govern engineering standards, best practices, and technical principles across delivery teams. Drive improvements in software engineering, infrastructure, cloud, and DevOps capabilities. Provide technical assurance for architecture, solution design, and implementation activities.

Mentor engineers and architects, promoting engineering excellence and continuous improvement. Identify and resolve technical delivery challenges, improving quality, consistency, and developer experience. Act as a senior escalation point for complex engineering and architectural issues.

Ensure solutions comply with security, operational, and regulatory requirements. Influence technology strategy, roadmaps, and long-term engineering decisions. Essential Skills & Experience Proven experience operating as a Chief Engineer, Principal Engineer, Lead Engineer, Technical Design Authority, or similar senior technical leadership role.

Strong knowledge of modern engineering practices, cloud-native architectures, and distributed systems. Experience establishing engineering standards and governance across multiple teams. Demonstrable experience delivering solutions within secure, regulated, or government environments.

Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence across engineering, architecture, security, and delivery functions. Technical Environment Cloud & Infrastructure Azure, AWS, Private Cloud, Virtualised Infrastructure Enterprise Networking, VPNs, Firewalls, Identity & Access Management Security & Compliance Secure-by-Design Principles Zero Trust Architecture ISO 27001 NIST Cyber Essentials Plus DevOps & Platform Engineering Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins Docker, Kubernetes CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code Software Engineering APIs and Integration Patterns Micros...

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