Aker Systems

• Lead and execute the comprehensive month-, quarter and year-end close processes. • Develop detailed financial forecasts and build robust annual budgets. • Prepare insightful monthly financial reports. • Ensure the completeness, accuracy, and integrity of all financial records. • Develop and maintain detailed cash flow forecasts and models. • Lead, mentor, and develop a small finance team. • Research and stay up-to-date with the latest International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). • Support audit preparation and statutory accounts. • Act as the primary point of contact for external auditors. • Provide financial insight to support commercial and strategic decisions. • Ensure compliance with statutory requirements and internal controls. • Champion automation and digital finance tools.

• Lead the data and systems analysis activities within the project, identifying the business and technical requirements and acceptance criteria • Conduct data analysis activities to identify detailed requirements including business transformation mappings • Creating technical User Stories, including task breakdown and be able to explain them to the technical delivery team • Working with the Solution Architect to develop and document detailed User Stories for the project backlog – you will need to validate that the solution will meet the end user requirements • Working with the data consumers and internal teams to create data specifications including detailed data definitions & mappings • Taking the lead on running workshops and data supplier engagement • Formalising the results of data and systems analysis into structured documentation and obtain approval from the key stakeholders • Forming strong business relationships with suppliers and consumers of data • Building out patterns and processes that can be repeated • Managing the project backlog in Jira • Being part of the technical Agile scrum team – actively contributing to other activities including testing and validation of the end results

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex projects • Work closely with internal and external stakeholders and external delivery partners to deliver high quality cloud & data solutions for our clients • Proactively identify and manage technical or operational dependencies across multiple workstreams to reduce delivery risk • Act as the primary point of escalation for delivery teams, rapidly resolving impediments and unblocking problems to maintain pace • Identify areas for improvement and contribute to the wider growth of Aker’s delivery capability and processes • Work with other departments (Sales/Finance/HR) to ensure that projects’ budgets are estimated, costed and resourced appropriately • Collaborate with architecture, infrastructure and security to ensure Aker delivery teams are fully aligned to the client’s outcome • Provide effective reporting of project delivery, timelines, milestones and budgets to senior business stakeholders • Work with Account Managers, participate in client commercial reviews and support creation of SoWs for future deliverables • Take responsibility for the quality of the team’s output and ensure the client satisfaction is of a high standard • Translate technical progress and risks into clear, non-technical updates for the Director and other senior business stakeholders • Manage a mentor a multidisciplinary team including engineers and analysts, fostering a high-performance culture and continuous improvement. including performance management, mentoring, engagement and team building • Provide constructive and real-time feedback through goal setting, regular 1:1s, personal development conversations and annual appraisals • Encourage team camaraderie and collaboration. Resolve any conflicts within the team promptly and effectively thus ensuring a positive and productive working environment • Successfully onboard and train new hires, complete probation milestones and processes, create robust inductions and provide career development support and guidance

• Lead the design, development and deployment of secure, scalable data pipelines and data platform components. • Design and implement batch and real-time streaming solutions using modern event-driven architectures. • Own technical design decisions across projects, balancing scalability, security, performance and delivery requirements. • Lead technical workshops, discovery sessions and architecture discussions with client stakeholders. • Assess existing client data platforms and design practical approaches for modernisation, migration and integration. • Build and maintain data ingestion, transformation and integration capabilities across a variety of data sources. • Develop cloud-native data platforms using AWS services and open-source technologies. • Ensure data quality, governance, lineage and security requirements are embedded throughout the data lifecycle. • Drive engineering best practices including code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code. • Support multiple client engagements, helping delivery teams maintain consistent engineering quality and standards. • Mentor and support engineers across project teams, providing technical guidance and leadership. • Perform data modelling, performance tuning and root cause analysis to resolve complex data and platform issues.

• Define and own the organisation-wide performance testing and engineering strategy. • Establish standards for: • Performance testing approaches • Workload modelling • Capacity planning • Introduce and scale performance engineering practices across multiple delivery teams. • Provide technical leadership and mentoring to QA and engineering teams on performance best practices. • Align performance goals with business SLAs, SLOs, and user experience expectations. • Design and implement scalable performance test frameworks and automation pipelines. • Lead adoption of tools such as: • Gatling, JMeter, k6, Locust or similar • Build reusable solutions for: • Load testing • Stress testing • Spike testing • Soak testing • Integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines for continuous validation. • Ensure performance tests are repeatable, reliable, and production-representative. • Define realistic user workload models based on production data and usage patterns. • Design performance test scenarios reflecting: • Peak load • Concurrent users • Throughput and latency requirements • Apply risk-based prioritisation for performance testing. • Ensure coverage across: • APIs • Microservices • Data pipelines • Event-driven systems • Lead performance validation for: • Microservices architectures • Event-driven systems (Kafka) • High-throughput APIs • Analyse latency, throughput, error rates, and bottlenecks across distributed systems. • Validate system behaviour under failure conditions and degraded environments. • Ensure horizontal scalability and resilience strategies are tested. • Validate performance across: • AWS cloud environments • Containerised platforms (Docker, Kubernetes) • Conduct capacity planning and infrastructure benchmarking. • Ensure systems scale efficiently using: • Auto-scaling • Load balancing • Distributed architectures • Evaluate performance of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) deployments. • Use observability tools to analyse system performance, including: • Metrics (Prometheus, Datadog) • Logs (ELK) • Traces (distributed tracing tools) • Identify and diagnose: • CPU, memory, I/O bottlenecks • Network latency issues • Database performance constraints • Collaborate with engineering teams to optimise system performance and architecture. • Define and enforce performance SLAs, SLOs, and acceptance criteria. • Establish quality gates for performance within CI/CD pipelines. • Ensure performance requirements are validated before production release. • Drive adoption of performance testing standards across teams. • Support audit, compliance, and regulatory expectations in performance-critical systems. • Analyse real production performance data to refine testing strategies. • Lead performance-related incident investigations and RCA activities. • Establish feedback loops between production observability and test environments. • Drive improvements in: • System responsiveness • Stability under load • Operational resilience. • Define and track performance KPIs, including: • Response times • Throughput • Error rates • Resource utilisation. • Build performance dashboards and reporting frameworks. • Drive continuous optimisation initiatives based on performance data. • Align performance metrics with business outcomes and user experience.

• Lead the data and systems analysis activities within the project, identifying the business and technical requirements and acceptance criteria • Conduct data analysis activities to identify detailed requirements including business transformation mappings • Create technical User Stories, including task breakdown and be able to explain them to the technical delivery team • Work with the Solution Architect to develop and document detailed User Stories for the project backlog – you will need to validate that the solution will meet the business requirements • Work with the data consumers and internal teams to create specifications including detailed data definitions & mappings • Take the lead on running workshops and data supplier engagement • Formalise the results of data and systems analysis into structured documentation and obtain approval from the key stakeholders • Form strong business relationships with suppliers and consumers of data • Build out patterns and processes that can be repeated • Manage the project backlog in Jira • Be part of the technical Agile scrum team – actively contributing to other activities including testing and validation of the end results

• As a Lead Software Engineer (Full Stack), you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, documenting, and deploying software for our government client. • You will focus on high availability, low latency, and scalability to meet their requirements. • Collaboration is key, as you actively participate in elaborating and estimating user stories and work closely with cross-functional feature teams to ensure efficient operations. • In addition, you'll be responsible for maintaining and optimizing our Continuous Deployment pipelines and ensuring the operational stability of your team's services.

• Research and develop high level and detailed solution designs • Monitor technical deliverables against the designs • Contribute to technical Change Requests • Maintain and monitor solutions against Non-functional requirements • Support solution option analysis and provide architectural recommendations • Capture the technology stack and map to the architecture • Closely collaborate with and guide the DevOps and application development teams

Role Description The Senior Manager, Delivery Lead, serves as the bridge between strategic vision and technical execution on a specific project or projects. Reporting to the Director, Programme Delivery, you lead multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex initiatives. In this role, you will: - Build and maintain teams, including managing and mentoring a team of Delivery Managers. - Foster a highly collaborative environment where execution meets human-centric leadership. - Be the 'manager of managers,' responsible for unblocking complex dependencies across multiple workstreams. - Ensure technical teams have the clarity and momentum they need to deliver excellent results to clients. A UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance is required for this role. If you don’t hold SC clearance, we will support you to apply assuming you have lived and worked in the UK for a minimum of 5 years. Qualifications - 7+ years of experience in a delivery management role with a proven track record of leading complex, large-scale projects. - Experience of Public Cloud Services and technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure). - Previous experience leading cross-functional teams, including the management of managers, strongly preferred. - Good understanding of technical solutions and data integration. - Deep expertise in Agile (Scrum, Kanban) and traditional Waterfall frameworks. - Familiarity with software delivery pipelines, Jira, Azure DevOps, or other digital delivery tools for real-time tracking. - Strong team management ability, with emotional intelligence to manage conflict and motivate diverse teams. - Vendor or offshore management experience a plus. - Advanced stakeholder management, negotiation and conflict resolution skills. - Ability to understand complex organisational structures and multi-supplier landscapes. - A driven leader who can shape a team and bring them on the journey to success for clients. - ITIL v3 Foundation and/or SAFe Agile preferred. - UK Government project experience preferred. Requirements - Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex projects. - Work closely with internal and external stakeholders and delivery partners to deliver high quality cloud & data solutions. - Proactively identify and manage technical or operational dependencies across multiple workstreams. - Act as the primary point of escalation for delivery teams, rapidly resolving impediments. - Identify areas for improvement and contribute to the wider growth of Aker’s delivery capability and processes. - Collaborate with architecture, infrastructure, and security to ensure alignment with client outcomes. - Provide effective reporting of project delivery, timelines, milestones, and budgets to senior stakeholders. - Work with Account Managers, participate in client commercial reviews, and support creation of SoWs. - Take responsibility for the quality of the team’s output and ensure high client satisfaction. - Translate technical progress and risks into clear, non-technical updates for senior stakeholders. - Manage and mentor a multidisciplinary team, fostering a high-performance culture. - Provide constructive and real-time feedback through goal setting and regular 1:1s. - Encourage team camaraderie and collaboration, resolving conflicts promptly. - Successfully onboard and train new hires, completing probation milestones and processes. Benefits - Competitive salary. - 25 days holiday plus bank holidays. - Company paid medical insurance and life assurance. - Pension scheme. - Annual training allowance. - Wellbeing allowance. - Virtual GP. - Employee Assistance plan. - And more. Equal Opportunities Aker Systems fosters a diverse environment that encourages openness in its communications and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics. We embrace differences of opinion and diversity because they help challenge us and find new groundbreaking technical solutions.

• Engage with stakeholders, both internal and external, to understand business requirements, provide strategic guidance, and ensure that data solutions meet their objectives • Support the design, development, and implementation of data architectures that meet the needs of our clients, ensuring alignment with security, performance, and scalability requirements • Utilise extensive experience with AWS tooling and other cloud providers to architect and deploy secure, cloud-native solutions for batch and real-time data processing • Provide technical leadership and guidance to cross-functional teams, ensuring best practices in data architecture, security, and cloud computing • Proficiency in data modelling, ETL processes, data warehousing, distributed systems and metadata systems • Utilise Apache Flink and other streaming technologies to build real-time data processing systems that handle large-scale, high-throughput data • Ensure all data solutions comply with industry standards and government regulations, maintaining the highest levels of data security and integrity • Monitor technical deliverables against the designs, manage and report on design divergences • Support the sales and pre-sales teams by providing expert advice and input on proposals, ensuring technical feasibility and alignment with client needs • Advise and support on breaches of data standards and make recommendations about how they should be resolved • Stay up to date with the latest advancements in cloud technologies, data architecture, and security practices, and apply this knowledge to continuously improve our offerings.