If you’d like to be considered for this opportunity we encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment as if applications are high the role will close before the closing date given.
Role: Domain Delivery Manager
Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.
Package: Salary starting from £50,060 p.a
Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.
Let us introduce the role:
The Domain Delivery Manager is responsible for coordinating the planning and delivery of digital and data initiatives within a defined domain. Reporting to the Domain Lead, the role supports the translation of prioritised demand into structured delivery plans and ensures initiatives are governed, tracked, and delivered in line with agreed scope, timescales, budget, and quality standards.
The role acts as a key coordination point across business, technical, and supplier teams, supporting consistent and assured delivery in line with enterprise frameworks and governance.
Key Accountabilities:
- Initiative Delivery: Accountable for ensuring domain initiatives are delivered on time, to budget and to agreed scope and quality, aligning with enterprise delivery standards and governance.
- Delivery Planning and Cross-Functional Coordination: Accountable for converting prioritised demand into executable delivery plans, coordinating inputs from architecture, business analysis, and technical teams.
- Delivery Performance and Risk Management: Maintain accountability for delivery performance reporting, milestone tracking, risk and issue management across all domain-led initiatives.
- Cross-Team Coordination for Integrated Delivery: Accountable for ensuring coordination across business, architecture, and supplier teams to support integrated planning and execution
- Delivery Governance and Lifecycle Compliance: Accountable for acting as the central point of delivery governance within the domain, ensuring all change initiatives follow agreed lifecycle controls.
- Assurance and Continuous Improvement: Accountable for embedding delivery assurance and continuous improvement practices, informed by feedback and performance insights.
- Health and Safety: Accountable for maintaining high standards of environment, safety, health, security and quality, and contributing positively to an effective team culture.
- Configuration Management and Control: Accountable for ensuring domain-led change is delivered in line with configuration management requirements, maintaining integrity of baselines, dependencies, and controlled artefacts.
- Ensures change is ready to be integrated safely into operational service without compromising configuration, security, or business continuity.
Essential Criteria:
- Degree or equivalent experience in Project Management, IT, or Business
- Proven track record of delivering projects or workstreams in a digital or IT-enabled environment
- Experience working with both internal and supplier delivery teams
- Experience managing risk, dependencies, and change control across multiple initiatives
- Strong project planning, coordination, and delivery management skills
- Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams across matrixed environments
- Excellent stakeholder communication and problem-solving skills
- Ability to provide clear, evidence-based reporting and recommendations to governance boards
- Must hold, or be able to hold, Accountable Configuration Manager (ACM) responsibilities for relevant domain change activity
- Willing to undertake overseas travel.
All candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance for this role.
Next steps:
Everyone who works at AWE brings unique skills and perspectives to the table. We recognise that great people don’t always ‘tick every box’. That’s why we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience. Even if you don’t meet every point above, but you feel that this role and AWE are a great fit for you, please go ahead and apply, we’d love to receive your application.
Important things you need to know:
- We encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment if applications are high and the role therefore closes.
- You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.
- We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.
- Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.
Our ambition is to create workplaces where we recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and our employees feel able to be themselves at work. We strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants. Any inclusion information you provide will be stored in accordance with GDPR and kept separate from your application form and CV, and the information will not be shared with anyone involved in interviewing or making hiring decisions.
Please note that you must be a British Citizen to apply for a role with us.
