IT Project Management Application Owner

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Maritime Services

We serve and protect those who serve and protect us. Attracting and retaining the sharpest minds is essential for a globally competitive UK Maritime Services Business. Our aim is to recruit the very best talent. At BAE we want to be the leading employer in defence and security for valuing diversity and inclusion. We care about difference in all forms and want to create an inclusive environment where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently under-represented within our industry, including women, people from ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to be a preferred home for veterans and reservists.

At BAE Systems we are committed to supporting work life balance for all our employees and embrace a range of modern working practices, which aim to enhance flexibility for individuals whilst also enabling business performance. Flexibility provisions vary by role, but include; hybrid working arrangements, flexible working patterns and shift working.

Our Maritime Services Business

Join us and help to define the future of global maritime defence capabilities. With approximately 3,500 employees based at five UK locations and revenue of £600million, we pride ourselves on employing the best professionals around and offer significant opportunities for committed employees to learn and grow with us.

Our people are encouraged to be as creative as they can be and are always looking at ways to develop and challenge the way we do things, identifying and prioritising continuous improvement activities across the business.

With our international programmes and core support to the Ministry of Defence our highly skilled teams design, develop, support and maintain a wide range of complex equipment.

Join us and the projects you’ll be involved in will positively impact our customers for decades to come. You’ll be part of something important; something you can be proud of.

IT Project Management Application Owner

We currently have a vacancy for an IT Project Management Application Owner at our site in Portsmouth Broad Oak - Mostly working from home with one day a week on site – can be UK wide.

As an IT Project Management Application Owner, you will be leading activities in the provision for the business in relation to Product Management, ensuring through stakeholder management, the strategy aligns to the business needs and objectives.

You will be responsible for designs, plans and manages the delivery of the Product Management requirements within the business, relating to IT enabled opportunities. As well as representing the businesses best interests with the customer base and BAE Systems globally.

You will provide advice and guidance to the service continuity planning process and implements resulting plans. You will investigate operational requirements and problems, seeking effective business solutions through improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes. You will be ensuring the underlying issues arising from investigations are documented and resolved, and managed, and any shortfalls according to agreed procedures. Analysis’s service and component availability, reliability, maintainability and serviceability will need to be provided, ensuring that services and components are met and continue to meet all of their agreed performance targets and service levels with function.

Your main responsibilities as an IT Project Management Application Owner will involve:

• Managing aspects of the application lifecycle enabling the application to meet the needs of customers/users and achieve financial or other targets
• Managing change and associated build and test in coordination with testers and component specialists whilst maintaining and administering the tools and methods. You will ensure release processes and procedures are maintained
• Dealing with problems, issues, corrective actions, lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information/managing resolutions
• Specifying and developing test scenarios to test that new/updated processes deliver improved ways of working and planned business benefits
• Leading on the investigation of operational requirements, problems, and opportunities
• Being the Lead or point of contact for any new or improved practices, processes or standards and facilitates improvements to the services/applications
  

Essentials

Your skills and qualifications:

• Experience of working in an IT Development Function
• Manages Incident & Problem management activity and will work on the most complex issues with no need for supervision or support
• Able to coach and mentor others
• Awareness of business unit policies and processes
• Can carry out routine configuration, installation, and reconfiguration of database and related products.
  

Desirable

• Knowledge of working within a SIAM operating model would be beneficial
  

What We Are Looking For In You

• Be trained at least to ITIL foundation or other appropriate capability training is preferable but not essential
• Relevant vocational qualification or equivalent experience (e.g. HNC/ Prince 2 Foundation/ Computer Science Degree
• Benchmark and review improved ways of working – continually seeking opportunities for productivity improvement, quality improvement and cost reduction
• Must be confident and self-motivated and be capable of managing suppliers and other stakeholders to deliver quality output on time.
• Be adaptable and able to negotiate
• Can provide consultancy advice and guidance and manage through to completion any functional projects and activities
  

Location: Portsmouth Broad Oak, UK wide considered. Working on a hybrid basis but travel to site roughly once a week will be required

Salary: Up to £47,940

Benefits

Our employees receive an excellent benefits package which includes a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. We also offer a range of additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and many local and national employee discounts. Some employees may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and/or your place of birth may limit those roles that you can perform for the organisation.

Job

Technical

Primary Location

GB-ENG-HAM-Portsmouth BroadOak

Closing Date

07/Jul/22, 10:59:00 PM