Are you an experienced Engineering Lead looking for your next big challenge? This is a fantastic opportunity to take ownership of the end-to-end engineering function for a major client programme - driving strategy, governance, and innovation across multiple technologies and suppliers.
As the Engineering Lead, you'll be at the heart of the customer's Design Authority, responsible for defining engineering standards, processes, and tooling that ensure consistent, high-quality delivery. You'll shape the technical direction, lead on automation initiatives, and make sure the engineering function delivers measurable value aligned with long-term business goals.
You'll also lead a thriving Engineering Community of Practice -- mentoring, guiding, and inspiring teams to adopt best practices and deliver exceptional outcomes. This is a senior, high-impact role that offers both strategic influence and hands-on leadership across complex, multi-supplier environments.
What we're looking for:
Strong background in engineering leadership, governance, and process design
Experience working across software, infrastructure, or service management disciplines
Proven ability to define and embed automation and tooling strategies
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
What's in it for you:
26 days' annual leave + public holidays
Double-matched pension contributions (up to 10%)
Life assurance and flexible benefits package
Employee discounts, wellbeing support, and private medical/car allowance (role dependent)
This is your chance to make a real impact -- shaping the engineering strategy for a leading organisation and driving meaningful change.
to take your career to the next level.
Engineering Lead
Location - Basingstoke
Your role will involve:
As part of the customers Design Authority, take responsibility for all aspects of engineering process, governance, technology and strategy
Define engineering processes, standards and guidance covering the end-to-end lifecycle of a variety of components (software, infrastructure, service management etc.), enabling the repeatable delivery of governed and assured products
Enable engineering governance, working across multiple suppliers to ensure quality artefacts are produced to standards consistently
Define engineering and automation tooling requirements and architecture, and support teams in the delivery of this technology and the supporting processes
Deliver a vision and strategy around engineering, supporting the customers medium to long term business strategy
Ensure the engineering function is delivering value to the customers business, achieving their strategic goals through delivery of engineering concepts, guidance and artefacts
Attend Design Authority meetings, supporting the delivery of customer strategy and positioning Fujitsu in the correct way
Manage the Engineering Community of Practise, leading a team of engineering focussed people to deliver the wider engineering function
Utilise the opportunities presented on the programme to ensure Fujitsu grow and develop a strong automation capability, reusing lessons learnt on the programme and sharing knowledge with the wider business
Deliver an engineering function that enables Fujitsu to deliver to its cost and time commitments
Support teams on the programme to adopt engineering processes and tooling
26 Days annual leave plus public holidays (3 flexible)
Pension - Double matching contributions of up to 10%
Life assurance
Companywide incentive plans
Your choices (Flexible benefits such as increased holidays/ travel/ dental critical illness and more)
Perks at work - employee discounts
Employee assistance programme/ virtual GP
Role dependent benefits: Private medical/ company car or car allowance
We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Email
EMEIArecruitment@fujitsu.com
if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.
Achieve together
We are recognised as a responsible and inclusive employer: Not only are we a certified Disability Confident Leader, a Times Top 50 employer for Gender Equality, a Top 75 employer for Social Mobility, accredited with the Living Wage Foundation and a signatory for the Race at Work Charter, but we are also committed to the United Nations standards for LGBTI+ and a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.
We are people centric: Our work environments enable you to Be Completely You. Our active people-led Inclusive Community networks are representative of all aspects of diversity and are instrumental in enabling and supporting our innovative approach to inclusion.
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