Digital Thread & Integration Project Manager

Location: Reading

Salary: £53,75ph – Inside IR35

Monday to Friday – 37 hours 

This is a fixed-term contract running from November 2026 to May 2027.

Gi Group is working in partnership with a leading defence company to recruit a Digital Thread & Integration PMO professional to support complex Digital Engineering and system integration initiatives within the aerospace and defence sector.

The successful individual will work closely with technical teams, architects, project managers, internal stakeholders and external suppliers to coordinate activities across multiple engineering systems and applications. The role will focus on project planning, tracking progress, managing dependencies and supporting the delivery of integration initiatives in a complex technical environment.

Some of your responsibilities as a Digital Thread & Integration Project Manager

• Coordinating Digital Thread, Digital Engineering and system integration activities across multiple applications, technical teams and suppliers.
• Maintaining project plans, milestones, timelines, dependencies, risks and issues.
• Coordinating meetings, technical workshops and project discussions with internal teams, architects and external suppliers.
• Taking actions and decisions arising from technical workshops, architecture discussions and project meetings, ensuring they are followed through to completion.
• Preparing project status reports, management updates, presentations and steering committee documentation.
• Supporting project governance, backlog management and prioritisation across Digital Thread initiatives.
• Translating technical discussions into clear actions, plans and follow-up activities.
• Supporting communication between business stakeholders and technical specialists to ensure alignment on project priorities and deliverables.

THE CANDIDATE:

The ideal candidate will have previous experience in PMO, project coordination or technical project management, preferably within complex IT, Engineering IT, aerospace or defence environments.

• Strong project planning, organisational and coordination skills.
• Experience tracking milestones, risks, issues, dependencies and actions.
•  Ability to coordinate internal teams, technical specialists, architects and external suppliers.
• Good understanding of system integration concepts, application interfaces and data flows.
• Ability to understand technical discussions and translate them into clear actions and deliverables.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Microsoft Project.
• Active SC Security Clearance is essential.

Desirable experience:

·      Experience within the aerospace, defence or MOD environment.

·      Knowledge of Digital Thread or Digital Engineering initiatives.

·      Familiarity with PLM, ALM, MBSE or Requirements Management tools and processes.

·      Experience with Teamcenter, IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (IBM ELM) or DOORS.

·      Understanding of REST APIs, OSLC, middleware, integration architectures or data flows.

·      Experience coordinating multiple suppliers or system integrators.

·      Basic understanding of enterprise architecture and engineering systems.

A software development background is not required. However, the successful candidate must be comfortable working in a technical environment, engaging with engineering teams and discussing systems, integrations and interfaces.

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