Mission-Critical Tech Programme Manager

ARX Robotics; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunity

27 days annual leave

Enhanced pension + private medical and

Job summary

ARX Robotics seeks a Technical Programme Manager to lead complex technical programmes across engineering, product, and mission operations. You will unify geographically distributed teams in the UK, Germany, and Ukraine, ensuring reality of field inputs informs central planning and that commitments are realistic and delivered.

You will implement rigorous processes, define readiness gates, and manage risks across hardware, software, and integration streams while maintaining clear traceability and

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading complex technical programmes in defence, robotics, autonomy, automotive, or similarly regulated environments.
• Strong ability to build and implement programme and engineering processes from scratch.
• Experience delivering mission-critical systems in high-pressure environments with full ownership of scope, schedule, and execution.
• Skilled at translating ambiguous inputs into structured, actionable outputs.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement programme processes across engineering, product, and mission operations teams.
• Establish and enforce a Jira-based operating model, including workflows and definitions of done.
• Own deliverable gates and readiness criteria for milestones, releases, and deployments with evidence-based sign-off.
• Drive planning, tracking, and execution of exercises and demonstrations with post-event closeout.
• Manage integrated schedules, dependencies, risks, and critical paths across hardware, software, and integration workstreams.
• Translate operational and engineering inputs into structured, testable requirements with clear acceptance criteria and traceability.
• Govern feedback and change processes between local integration activities and centrally prioritised product development teams.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Engineering management

Governance processes

Requirements tracing

Decision making

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Jira

Job description

ARX Robotics seeks a Technical Programme Manager to lead complex technical programmes across engineering, product, and mission operations. You will unify geographically distributed teams in the UK, Germany, and Ukraine, ensuring reality of field inputs informs central planning and that commitments are realistic and delivered.

You will implement rigorous processes, define readiness gates, and manage risks across hardware, software, and integration streams while maintaining clear traceability and