Senior Digital Lead

AtkinsRéalis; Whitehaven; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Hybrid working culture

Training and professional development

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Framework Digital Lead to partner with project teams and clients, enabling adoption of digital capabilities and connecting projects to the wider digital ecosystem.

The role focuses on collaboration, influence, and practical support rather than direct project control, with opportunities to shape digital strategies across nuclear projects.

Qualifications

• Enjoys working collaboratively with project teams, clients, and specialists.
• Confident explaining digital concepts in clear, practical terms.
• Comfortable operating with guidance from senior digital leaders.
• Motivated by seeing teams adopt better ways of working and delivering tangible improvements.

Responsibilities

• Act as a digital partner and advisor to project teams and clients, helping them understand available digital services and how they add value.
• Support digital adoption alongside Project Managers and Project Directors, rather than owning delivery.
• Identify pain points and improvement opportunities, feeding them into digital teams for solution development.
• Contribute insights in bids and proposals without acting as bid authority.
• Encourage consistent use of standard digital ways of working, tools, and platforms across projects.
• Coordinate with Digital Functions and interface with Nuclear EMEA and wider AtkinsRéalis digital teams.

Skills

Collaboration

Communication

Stakeholder engagement

Continuous improvement

Job description

Overview

Are you passionate about helping engineering teams and clients make practical use of digital tools and ways of working? Do you enjoy acting as a connector between projects, clients, and specialist digital teams—spotting opportunities, supporting adoption, and helping good ideas land well in delivery?

To support our growing nuclear portfolio, we are looking for a Framework Digital Lead to work alongside project teams and clients, acting as a trusted digital partner rather than a project authority. This role is focused on enablement, coordination, and influence, supporting the uptake of digital capabilities and ensuring projects are well connected to the wider AtkinsRéalis digital ecosystem.

At AtkinsRéalis, digital is about doing things differently, and doing different things—improving safety, efficiency, quality, and outcomes through better use of information, technology, and ways of working.

Your role

As a Partner Digital Lead, You Will

• Act as a digital partner and advisor to project teams and clients, helping them understand what digital services and tools are available and how they can add value.
• Work alongside Project Managers and Project Directors to support digital adoption, rather than owning delivery or acting as a final authority.
• Help identify pain points, improvement opportunities, and quick wins, feeding these into functional digital teams for solution development or support.
• Support early conversations around potential digital opportunities in bids and proposals, contributing insight rather than acting as bid authority.
• Encourage consistent use of standard digital ways of working, tools, and platforms across projects.
• This role is about influence, coordination, and practical support, not project control or senior governance.

Digital Partnering & Enablement

• Act as a first point of contact for projects seeking digital advice or support.
• Help projects understand and access the right digital capabilities, tools, and services from across AtkinsRéalis.
• Assist in identifying emerging digital opportunities within projects and client engagements.
• Coordination with Digital Functions.
• Interface with Nuclear EMEA and wider AtkinsRéalis digital teams to coordinate support and resources.
• Capture lessons learned and examples of good practice from projects.
• Support communities of practice, showcases, and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed about the evolving digital portfolio and emerging technologies.

About You

• Enjoys working collaboratively with project teams, clients, and specialists.
• Is confident explaining digital concepts in clear, practical, non-technical language.
• Is comfortable operating with guidance and support from more senior digital leaders.
• Is motivated by seeing teams adopt better ways of working and delivering tangible improvements.
• Brings curiosity, openness, and a continuous-improvement mindset.
• You will likely have experience in engineering, digital delivery, information management, or technology-enabled change, with exposure to project environments rather than overall project accountability.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.

• Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices.
• Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise.
• And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

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About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's'infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

Find out more.

Additional information

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.