Digital Engineering Product Manager - Typhoon

Overview

The focus of this role is to provide product leadership across the Engineering Delivery Partnership (EDP) Digital Engineering programme.

The Digital Engineering Product Manager is accountable for defining the future direction, roadmap, business value and adoption strategy for the programme, ensuring delivery activity remains aligned to customer needs and business priorities.

Product Leadership

• Own and maintain the Digital Engineering capability roadmap.
• Define and communicate the long-term vision and strategic direction for the programme.
• Translate customer needs, operational challenges and business priorities into clear future capability requirements.
• Prioritise capability development initiatives based on value, impact, dependencies and investment constraints.
• Work with delivery teams to ensure the roadmap remains achievable, coherent and aligned with business objectives.
• Identify opportunities for extension and reuse across wider EDP, Air, Defence and QinetiQ initiatives.

Customer Engagement & Requirements Shaping

• Act as the primary customer-facing lead for future capability development and programme evolution.
• Develop a deep understanding of customer objectives, challenges, priorities and operating environment.
• Lead discussions around future requirements, capability gaps and desired outcomes.
• Ensure stakeholder expectations are understood, managed and reflected within programme priorities.
• Maintain strong relationships with key customer stakeholders and programme sponsors.

Investment Case Approval

• Provide product leadership for development of Internal Investment Approval Committee (IIAC) submissions and other investment proposals.
• Develop business cases for future capability increments and programme phases.
• Define benefits, outcomes, costs, risks and dependencies associated with proposed investments.
• Maintain a forward pipeline of future investment requirements.

Change & Adoption Management

• Own the programme change and adoption strategy.
• Develop plans to drive successful adoption of new digital engineering capabilities.
• Ensure organisational, process and behavioural changes are identified and managed.
• Work with business stakeholders to maximise benefits realisation.
• Coordinate communication, engagement and training activities required to support adoption.

Governance & Decision Support

• Provide strategic oversight of programme direction and priorities.
• Develop material to support governance reviews, customer engagements and investment decisions.
• Maintain a consolidated view of benefits, risks, dependencies, opportunities and future priorities.

Technical Experience / Knowledge

• Digital Engineering Technical Leadership.
• Enterprise architecture.
• Data modelling.
• DMS expertise.
• Infrastructure design.
• Secure multi-domain environments.
• AI awareness.
• Engineering and requirements management.

Key Stakeholders

• Programme Manager
• Project Manager
• Technical Lead
• Enterprise Architect
• Workstream Leads (Through Life Engineering, Data & AI, Infrastructure)
• EDP, Air & Typhoon Chief Engineers
• Enterprise Services
• Commercial and Finance Teams
• Business Change & Adoption Leads
• Customer Representatives
• Group Head of Solution Architects