Specialisms

Systems Engineer

Role Summary

We have an exciting new contract opportunity based in Christchurch as a Systems Engineer.

The role will be an initial 12-month contract and will provide you with the opportunity to take on a Systems Engineer role within an exciting market leading IT domain, to not only sustain an existing portfolio of products, systems and services but to support the development and innovation of future products and projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Understanding and interpreting customer requirements
• Creating high level and detailed system designs
• Develop options for potential solutions
• Understanding of competitors and suppliers
• Performing sub system component studies
• Evolve and innovate existing solutions and new ideas

Key skills & qualifications

Ideally you will have a strong engineering background with experience in the Defence industry.

• Track record of Enterprise, Project or System Level Design Solutions
• Requirements Definition and Analysis
• Requirements compliance and design to cost
• Verification and Validation
• Problem solving
• Developing supplier statements of work
• Supplier and customer engagement

Plus an understanding of,

• MoD contracts and bids
• Military IT, communications , platforms, gateways, networking systems
• Security architectures, system integration, virtualisation, cloud, accreditation
• Integration of systems into military vehicles
• Acceptance, trials, demonstrations and delivery processes

What we’re looking for in you

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Well-developed analytical/ problem solving/ decision making skills.
• Strong organisational skills who is adaptable in a fast-paced environment.
• Stakeholder management skills.

Location: Christchurch

Rate: £56.91 per hour (inside IR35)

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Senior Naval Architect

Role Summary

We have an exciting new contract opportunity based in Portsmouth as a Senior Naval Architect.

The role will be an initial 6 month contract and will provide you with the opportunity to be apart of a key role in the Small Boats Design team responsible for providing naval architecture capability across a broad spectrum of projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in a wide range of activities including concept design, detailed design, support to build, delivery and in service support to the small boats sector.
• Conduct naval architecture tasks such as structural analyses, stability analyses, inclining experiments and concept design.
• Lead minor engineering projects, developing requirements into solutions and providing appropriate engineering evidence for the SDA.
• Mentoring and providing technical leadership and guidance to other team members.
• Collate evidence and present solutions so as to provide assurance to the SDA and other stakeholders.
• Lead minor engineering projects from requirements definition through to delivery.
• Providing technical guidance to other team members.
• Conducting naval architecture tasks such as structural analyses, stability analyses, inclining experiments and concept design.
• Conducting all activities in a professional manner delivering naval architecture design solutions to agreed time, cost and quality to meet project or business milestones
• Participating in a wide range of activities including concept design, detailed design, support to build, delivery and in service support to to the small boats sector.
• Ensuring that work is undertaken in accordance with Company, Safety, Environmental, contractual and local business processes, standards, procedures and documentation
• Drafting, vetting and editing technical reports or other documents relevant to, or required by, a particular task in order to ensure that technical findings can be successfully communicated with recipients
• Participation in the preparation and submission of technical proposals and tenders as directed by bid the manager under the authority of the SDA.
• Maintaining accurate records of all design related work in accordance with relevant extant procedures to ensure a complete design record of work undertaken.
• Ensuring adequate integration with other engineering functions involved with a particular task or program of work to ensure all aspects of the naval architecture design solution are considered.
• Liaison with MOD establishments, test facilities, sub-contractors and customers as required to satisfy the needs of the project or the business
• When appropriate, the supervision of undergraduates or young persons assigned for

Key skills & qualifications

• Qualified to degree level, usually MEng, in Naval Architecture /Marine Technology or demonastrable experience.
• Small craft design from concept through to delivery. o Small Craft design standards and processes (IMO, MCA, DefStan, Classification Rules) o Vessel powering and performance analysis.
• Small Craft systems design including electrical, fuel, bilge etc.
• 3D modelling, ideally using Siemens NX.
• 2D drafting knowledge and experience.
• Stability analysis, ideally using Maxsurf.
• GRP and aluminium design and repair knowledge
• Structural analysis, both theoretical and ideally using FEA Engineering material selection and use, particularly according to British Standards/ Euronorms/ Classification Society standards and Defence Standards
• Conducting and analysing Inclining Experiments.
• Knowledge of commercial and/or military small craft.

What we’re looking for in you

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Well-developed analytical/ problem solving/ decision making skills.

Strong organisational skills who is adaptable in a fast-paced environment.

Stakeholder management skills.

Location: Portsmouth

AAP3 is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Media Developer – 3D Specialist

Role Summary

We have an exciting new contract opportunity based in Portsmouth as a Media Developer – 3D Specialist.

The role will be an initial 12 month contract and will provide you with the opportunity to work on utilising engineering data and other technical references as part of the media development process. As well as this, strict adherence to a style guide and other associated standards to enable consistent media outputs.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop training media as identified by the Instructional Design Team against the specified style guide and/or standards. Take ownership of allocated tasks whilst monitoring their own progress, quality and performance, reporting as required and seeking assistance when necessary.
• Participate in and contribute to team discussions adopting and applying the direction given and complying with the required development processes.
• Ensure compliance and coherence with the development plan, schedule and supporting documentation.
• Utilise other toolsets as required and directed by the business (e.g. LCMS), in accordance with the directed and agreed approach.
• Liaise with stakeholders
• Support all governance activities as required.
• Monitor and manage time and cost reporting for themselves with support as required.
• Comply with business requirements relating to (attendance, time keeping and reporting, expenses incurred, professional behaviours, security, and commercial considerations).
• Be comfortable with development of 3d vector-based graphics.
• Ideally have experience of developing technical training content for military materiel.
• They will be able to apply already tailored standards to meet the needs of the project without going against the principle and direction.
• Have effective interpersonal skills in communicating with others.
• Report progress of tasks as required by more senior members of the team and/or the Media Capability Engineering Manager

Key skills & qualifications

• A good understanding of how own activities integrate into the activities of a media development team.

• Typically requires a limited knowledge of activities of other teams.

• Is required to make judgements based on own knowledge and experience of similar situations.

• Can assess the viability and applicability of solutions, evaluates alternatives based on an understanding of common or previous solutions to problems

• Requires good communication skills; able to understand technical direction and communicate well with others.

• Develop 3d media to a consistent standard and tempo.

• Be comfortable using technical and engineering source data to aid media development.

• Be able to provide reasonable estimates for allocated tasks but report, during development, with a reasoned view as to why the original estimate is now deemed unsound.

What we’re looking for in you

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Well-developed analytical/ problem solving/ decision making skills.

Strong organisational skills who is adaptable in a fast-paced environment.

Stakeholder management skills.

Location: Portsmouth

Rate: £57.28 per hour (INSIDE IR35)

AAP3 is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Infrastructure Architect

Role Summary

We have an exciting new contract opportunity based in Corsham as a Infrastructure Architect.

The role will be an initial 6 month contract and will provide you with the opportunity to review the existing services and infrastructure of the NSoIT(D) development systems in order to ensure the platform can meets the demands of the NSoIT(D) engineering organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Being accountable for all aspects of the NSoIT(D) Development system infrastructure;
• Identifying NSoIT(D) development business requirements that will require new or modified system services within NSoIT(D) Development system;
• Develop solution designs that balance business requirements with security requirements and budgetary controls;
• Production of quality documentation to support the proposed designs;
• Providing subject matter expertise, advice, and guidance to the System Administration team and assisting with installations when required;
• Conduct periodic obsolesce reviews of hardware and co-originate schedule with the System Manager;
• Producing and delivering design briefings to the NSoIT(D) Development system team and the NSoIT(D) teams to demonstrate proposed new services, including proof of concept platforms and de-risk installations for testing;
• Providing sound strategic advice, input, support, challenge and knowledge transfer as required across the NSoIT(D) programme team, particularly in the areas of Infrastructure;
• Managing relationships with key stakeholder groups including the Product Management Team within NSOIT(D)

Key skills & qualifications

• At least 5 years demonstrable experience operating in a System Design type role on for system/network architectures in a secure client environment;
• Knowledge and understanding of defence policy and standards, particularly JSP 440, 604 and over-arching HMG policy and their influence on systems design;
• Experience of producing System Design documentation to a high standard and able to provide constructive feedback on other team members design work as part of the review process;
• Extensive experience with Microsoft Windows 10 Desktop operating system;
• Extensive experience with Microsoft Windows Server operating systems;
• Experience with Microsoft Server Applications (MSSQL, Exchange, Skype For Business, SharePoint);
• Extensive experience with Linux Server operating systems, specifically Ubuntu and CentOS/ RedHat;
• Detailed, experience and understanding of the VMware Software Defined Data Centre (SDDC) model including large scale virtualisation of servers, desktops, infrastructure and storage technologies;
• Detailed understanding of layer 2 and layer 3 networking principles;
• Experience with Cisco networking appliances and use of the IOS operating system;
• Experience with Palo Alto and Cisco Firewall appliances;
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with a proven ability to explain technical issues to a nontechnical audience;
• Strong critical thinking and analytical skills to solve problems and propose new ideas;
• Competency in MS Office Suite and Visio;
• DV level Clearance to allow Administrative access.

What we’re looking for in you

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Well-developed analytical/ problem solving/ decision making skills.

Strong organisational skills who is adaptable in a fast-paced environment.

Stakeholder management skills.

Location: Corsham

Rate: £69.00 per hour (INSIDE IR35)

AAP3 is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Solutions Architect: SC Cleared, SC Clearance, secure database systems, secure information systems, MOD, Defence, Government

Outside IR35, remote, part-time contract opportunity for a Solutions Architect holding SC Clearance and with experience with secure database systems that meet UK government/ UK Defence OFFICIAL SENSITIVE standards.

2 days per week

Our client are a global construction organisation who require a Solutions Architect to assist in the High Level Design of solution to for database/ digital information systems that meet UK Government and UK Defence security standards for bids, proposals and projects they are involved in.

Key requirements:

• SC Cleared Solutions Architect experienced in HLD solutions design
• Experienced in UK government and Defence requirements for databases and information systems used to store, process and share information that meet UK Government classified SENSITIVE standards
• HLD solution design for system that is legally compliant with OFFICIAL SENSITIVE status
• Able to advise on solution options and road-maps

Solutions Architect: SC Cleared, SC Clearance, secure database systems, secure information systems, MOD, Defence, Government

AAP3 is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Solution Architect

Role Summary

We have an exciting new contract opportunity based in Preston as a Solution Architect.

The role will be an initial 6 month contract and will provide you with the opportunity to specify, design, and assure information systems that support core organisational functions within key account or functional areas.

Key Responsibilities

• Definition of the Solution Architecture and Design for the project to meet business requirements, within the project constraints of cost and timescale, and the agreed architectural and technical framework.
• Capture the as-is application, data, and technology architectures for the assigned projects.
• Define the to-be application, data, and technology architectures for the assigned projects.
• Ensure, and where 3rd party elements are provided assure, that the overall functional and technical design of the solution is acceptable and fit for purpose.
• Provide Technical Authority leadership of the IM&T solution and associated development team, ensuring that the solution architecture and design is as required and is communicated effectively.
• Liaison with the product suppliers, COTS component vendors and subcontract development teams.
• Ensure consistency and integrity of the solution implementation through overseeing the solution development process, and production of development work products.
• Provide design management and governance through the operation of change and configuration management activities.
• Work effectively with the Project Managers to support the development of the project plan, through assisting with the compilation and review of estimates and schedules, and identification of risks and approach to reviews.
• Engage with customers and stakeholders to develop solution requirements and solution design.

Key skills & qualifications

• IS / Engineering diploma / degree
• Proven experience in delivering IM&T solutions together with associated architecture deliverables.
• Hands-on experience with business and system requirements gathering / analysis.
• Proven experience in design and development of Information systems.
• Strong understanding of information processing principles and practices.
• Technical knowledge of a range of IM&T business systems from ERPs through procurement to supplier management.
• Excellent analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities.
• Very good written and oral communication skills.
• Architecture and technical support documentation skills.
• Understanding of IM&T / software development lifecycle (including methodologies e.g. Agile) and associated reviews, policies, standards and governance processes.
• 7-10 years’ experience of IS systems design or software development. 3-5 years’ experience of technical leadership e.g. Technical Authority

What we’re looking for in you

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Well-developed analytical/ problem solving/ decision making skills.

Strong organisational skills who is adaptable in a fast-paced environment.

Stakeholder management skills.

Location: Preston

Rate: £639.71 per day (INSIDE IR35)

AAP3 is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Software Developer

Role Summary

We have an exciting new contract opportunity based in Broad Oak as a Software Developer.

The role will be an initial 6 month contract and will provide you with the opportunity to lead the design, development and maintenance of software artefacts and integrations to tools and libraries.

Key Responsibilities

• Creates appropriate design documents to explain how system should behave, interact and interface with ecosystem for the consumption by various stakeholders.
• Ensure software is compliant with Maritime Services and business software governance.
• Ensures software and third-party library license usage is appropriate and approved.
• Designs software with extensibility and reusability at the forefront.
• Designs Complex Event Processing logic to manipulate, enrich and enhance the data for further processing on the platform.
• Engage suppliers / third-parties for the purpose of integrate the solution and problem solving.
• Engage end-users to understand requirements, discuss proposals and demonstrate concepts.
• Defines and leads software development activities to interface with supplier and third-party systems.
• Components are created and maintained with care to ensure that they are generic and reusable.

Key skills & qualifications

• Have experience of working within Engineering and Operations environments.
• Understands how own work integrates with work of the SIE Team.
• Able to articulate challenges with process, software or system at a level that stakeholders understand and can action.
• Regularly and concisely emits status updates and seeks assistance of others and assistance to others promptly.
• Experience of how to solve problems and quickly resolve root causes of issues and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Able to deduce the area in which a challenge is likely to be caused by thorough investigation.
• Able to ascertain the areas in which are affected or are cascaded from an issue.
• Uses facts when giving answers rather than feelings.
• Uses explicit tests to prove problem and subsequently prove that problem is resolved.

What we’re looking for in you

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Well-developed analytical/ problem solving/ decision making skills.

Strong organisational skills who is adaptable in a fast-paced environment.

Stakeholder management skills.

Location: Broad Oak

Rate: £61.69 Per Hour (INSIDE IR35)

AAP3 is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Business Architect

Role Summary

We have an exciting new contract opportunity based in Preston as a Business Architect.

The role will be an initial 12 month contract and will provide you with the opportunity to document, using a structured approach, the programme goals, capabilities, processes, services, data, organisation and high level IMT solutions

Key Responsibilities

• Develop the programme level business architecture by engaging with the workstreams to capture/ document as is and target state for goals, capabilities, processes, services, data and organisation
• Act as liaison between the workstreams and the recruitment transformation IM&T lead to enable the definition of, at a high level, the IM&T solution that underpins the business architecture.
• Working with the IM&T lead, support the definition of requirements for individual IM&T solutions.
• Incorporating the insights of customers, line employees and managers to ensure their unique needs are accommodated.
• Define the IM&T capability roadmap to show how recruitment will transition from current to target state including the key milestones (contract changes, IM&T go-live, org changes etc.) and their impact on KPIs goals, capabilities, processes, services, data, organisation and IM&T.
• Engaging subject matter experts throughout L&IS and the customer’s organization in the solution process.
• Coordinating and sequencing their solutions to remove conflicts.
• Generating necessary documentation; packaging and translating it into terms each audience can understand and embrace
• Liaise with Business Analysts to facilitate requirements capture in accordance with the project specific functional model.
• Liaise with Solution Architects to facilitate the development of a detailed solution architecture in accordance with the project specific functional model.

Key skills & qualifications

• Strong interpersonal and consultative skills.

• Ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders and present ideas in user-friendly language.

• Able to prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.

• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment

• Very good written and oral communication skills.

• 7-10 years experience of business analysis / architecture

• Excellent analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities.

• Proven knowledge and experience of working within architecture frameworks e.g. TOGAF, MODAF, Zachman

• Proven experience in developing business architecture plans and roadmaps.

• Hands-on experience with business requirements gathering/analysis

What we’re looking for in you

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Well-developed analytical/ problem solving/ decision making skills.

Strong organisational skills who is adaptable in a fast-paced environment.

Stakeholder management skills.

Location: Preston

Rate: £615.00 per day (INSIDE IR35)

AAP3 is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Java Script & React Developer

Role Summary

We have an exciting new contract opportunity based in Broad Oak as a Java Script & React Developer.

The role will be an initial 6 month contract and will provide you with knowledge of modern software development including patterns and practices. They will need experience in behaviour driven development or other agile methodologies, understand continuous delivery and integration principles and test automation.

Key Responsibilities

• The specification and design of software to meet defined requirements by following agreed design standards and principles.
• The definition of software, components, interfaces and related characteristics.
• The identification of concepts and patterns and the translation into a design which provides a basis for software construction and verification.
• The evaluation of alternative solutions and trade-offs.
• The facilitation of design decisions within the constraints of systems designs, design standards, quality, feasibility, extensibility and maintainability.
• The development and iteration of prototypes/simulations to enable informed decision-making.
• The adoption and adaptation of software design models, tools and techniques based on the context of the work and selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
• The planning, designing, creation, amending, verification, testing and documentation of new and amended software components in order to deliver agreed value to stakeholders.
• The identification, creation and application of agreed software development and security standards and processes.
• Adopting and adapting software development lifecycle models based on the context of the work and selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
• The planning, implementation and control of activities to integrate/build components, subsystems and interfaces to create operational systems, products or services for delivery to customers, or for internal or interim purposes such as testing.
• The development of organisational capabilities for systems integration and build including automation and continuous integration.

Key skills & qualifications

• Selects, adopts and adapts appropriate software design methods, tools and techniques; selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
• Specifies and designs large or complex software components. Undertakes impact analysis on major design options, makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks.
• Specifies prototypes/simulations to enable informed decision making. Evaluates the quality of others’ systems designs to ensure adherence to standards and identifies corrective action, if needed.
• Ensures that the system design balances functional, quality, security and systems management requirements.
• Contributes to development of organisational software design and architecture policies and standards.
• Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development.
• Plans and drives software construction activities.
• Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
• Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction including software security.
• Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development.

What we’re looking for in you

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Well-developed analytical/ problem solving/ decision making skills.

Strong organisational skills who is adaptable in a fast-paced environment.

Stakeholder management skills.

BPSS clearance required but may need SC in future

Location: Broad Oak

Rate: £48.58 per hour (INSIDE IR35)

AAP3 is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Transversal Requirement Co-ordinator

Role Summary

We have an exciting new contract opportunity based in Barrow as a Transversal Requirement Co-ordinator.

The role will be an initial 6 month contract and will provide you with the opportunity to supply support to the system owners in steering them towards credible system design solutions which meet or perform in the spirit of the General Technical Requirements owned by Naval Architecture.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage Monthly meetings to review progress and resolve issues, this provides direction and the vision for the team
• Weekly management – pushing through work
• Maintain Plan updates this is to align with the ever changing D5 Schedule
• Oversee the complete production and delivery of the Transversal Qualification, Plan And Report (TQPAR) documentations in support of each system
• Manage changing priorities
• Manage and conduct the TC review cycle for each system to the Approved status
• Updates for each revision
• Manage the impact of VOIDs/outliers in relation to how they affect the ability for Naval Architecture to deliver
• Manage the booking codes for the ICS and the general transversal work feeding this information up through the management chain as necessary

Key skills & qualifications

• Progress with the MoD requests to get TQPARs to Blue (Qualification)
• Manage and maintain the Naval Architecture Whole Boat Qualification Plan And Report (NA WBQPAR), ensure all Naval Architecture owned requirements are updated and milestones against this document are met
• Complete Integrated Combat Systems (ICS) 14 TQPAR plan
• Increase involvement in the SSNR programme for the Naval Architecture Transversals supporting the development of an end to end process

What we’re looking for in you

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Well-developed analytical/ problem solving/ decision making skills.

Strong organisational skills who is adaptable in a fast-paced environment.

Stakeholder management skills.

Location: Barrow

Rate: £55.84 per hour (INSIDE IR35)

AAP3 is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.