Digital Engineering Product Manager - Typhoon

Location: MOD Abbeywood based, with travel to QinetiQ UK sites
Rate: Up to £550/day (Inside IR35)
Duration: 01/08/2026 to 20/11/2026, with potential for a longer-term continuation
Deadline for Applications: 12/08/2026 at 09:00 BST
Clearance: Current SC Clearance required

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.

Working alongside the Technical Lead, who is responsible for delivery of the current technical work packages, the Product Manager focuses more on providing the customer facing and future focused leadership for the programme. The role is responsible for developing capability roadmaps, managing dependencies, driving adoption and change, securing investment approvals, and ensuring alignment with enabling programmes such as Forge and other strategic initiatives.

The role ensures the programme delivers immediate value whilst maintaining a clear path towards longer-term transformation objectives.

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