Director of Engineering

Company: Addition
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Location: Chinatown
Job Description:

We are recruiting for a specialist digital consultancy delivering secure, user-focused technology solutions across the UK public sector and defence landscape. This role sits at the heart of their growth strategy — shaping innovative solutions, influencing major bids, and helping clients tackle complex transformation challenges with confidence.

What You’ll Be Doing:

  • Leading the technical architecture and innovation strategy for large-scale public sector and defence bids
  • Shaping compelling technical proposals that balance innovation, delivery realism, and commercial viability
  • Working closely with sales and leadership teams to define winning bid strategies and differentiated client solutions
  • Translating emerging technologies and government priorities into scalable, practical services for clients
  • Overseeing the creation of proof of concepts, prototypes, and demonstrations during pre-sales engagements
  • Acting as a trusted technical advisor to senior government stakeholders throughout early engagement discussions
  • Supporting the development of repeatable service offerings and accelerators alongside engineering and practice teams
  • Representing the business at industry events, forums, and thought leadership activities
  • Ensuring smooth transition from bid phase into delivery by aligning technical vision, expectations, and delivery approach

Main Skills Needed:

  • Strong track record of securing and shaping complex, multi-million-pound contracts within UK Government or Defence environments
  • Deep understanding of Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) frameworks and public sector procurement models
  • Broad technical background across modern software engineering, cloud, AI, cyber security, or digital transformation services
  • Ability to bridge technical innovation with commercial delivery and profitability
  • Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, particularly with senior government and defence clients
  • Strong proposal writing and bid response experience, including technical narrative creation
  • Confident communicator able to simplify complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences
  • Experience operating in agile, fast-paced consultancy or scale-up environments
  • Strong awareness of ethical technology, compliance, security, and governance considerations

What’s in It for You:

  • Opportunity to influence nationally significant digital transformation programmes
  • Employee-owned business with a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture
  • Exposure to cutting-edge technologies across AI, cloud, cyber, and advanced engineering
  • High level of autonomy and strategic influence within the organisation
  • Flexible and agile working environment
  • Opportunity to shape service offerings and contribute directly to business growth
  • Work alongside highly skilled technical and delivery specialists across the defence and public sector space
  • Clear opportunity to build thought leadership presence within a growing consultancy

Careers move fast. Let’s make sure yours is heading the right way.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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Posted: June 4th, 2026