Domain Requirements Manager

AWE plc; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 74,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

9‑day fortnight

Pension scheme 9–13%

Family-friendly policies

Professional development funding

Employee assistance

Life assurance 4x salary

Discounts

Special leave

Job summary

AWE in the Reading/Basingstoke corridor is recruiting a Domain Requirements Manager to coordinate demand shaping, requirements gathering and early delivery planning within DS&C. Reporting to the Domain Delivery Lead, you will translate business needs into deliverable initiatives and track progress across milestones, ensuring alignment with strategy and value delivery.

This role necessitates a British citizen eligible for UK security clearances, based at RG7 4PR with onsite parking.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent experience in Business, Technology, or related field.
• Experience in business partnering, domain lead, or portfolio management.
• Experience coordinating cross‑functional delivery teams.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Financial and resource planning capability.
• Experience managing third‑party suppliers.
• Willing to undertake overseas travel.

Responsibilities

• Prioritisation and planning of domain initiatives aligned with strategic goals.
• Delivery coordination across early planning stages.
• Stakeholder coordination between business units and DS&C teams.
• Governance and standards alignment with delivery frameworks.
• Reporting and monitoring of progress, risks, and dependencies.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to align goals and solutions.
• Contribute to process improvement across the domain.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Cross-functional coordination

Delivery coordination

Governance knowledge

Education

Degree or equivalent in Business/Technology

Job description

The Domain Requirements Manager supports the planning and coordination of digital and data change initiatives within DS&C. Reporting to the Domain Delivery Lead, the role plays a key part in translating business needs into delivery‑ready initiatives by coordinating activities across demand shaping, requirements gathering, solution readiness, and early‑stage delivery planning. Working closely with business stakeholders, analysts and architects, the Domain Requirements Manager ensures that initiatives are clearly defined, scoped, and aligned with strategic priorities. The role helps track delivery progress through key milestones, supporting value realisation and delivery assurance.

Package: starting from £50,060 p.a (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience).

Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

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.

Key Accountabilities

• Prioritisation and Planning: Assists in the prioritisation of initiatives within the domain, ensuring that proposed solutions are evaluated against strategic goals, resource availability, and delivery capacity.
• Delivery Coordination: Coordinates early‑stage planning activities to ensure initiatives are well‑structured and set up for success.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Acts as a liaison between business units and DS&C teams, facilitating clear communication, managing expectations, and supporting stakeholder engagement throughout the pre‑delivery lifecycle.
• Governance and Standards Alignment: Ensures that scoped initiatives adhere to enterprise delivery standards, governance frameworks, and architectural principles.
• Reporting and Monitoring: Tracks the progress of domain initiatives across planning and early delivery stages, supporting risk, issue, and dependency management.
• Collaboration: Works closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure alignment between business goals and technical solutions.
• Continuous Improvement: Contributes to the refinement of delivery processes and practices across the domain to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

Essential Criteria

• Degree or equivalent experience in Business, Technology, or related field.
• Proven experience in a business partnering, domain lead, or portfolio management role.
• Experience working with internal and third‑party delivery partners to support scoped, prioritised, and deliverable initiatives.
• Demonstrated success in coordinating cross‑functional delivery teams.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Financial and resource planning capability.
• Experience managing third‑party suppliers.
• Ability to shape demand and translate business needs into deliverable initiatives.
• Willing to undertake overseas travel.

Work hard, be rewarded: We ask a lot and set the bar high because our work truly matters. In return we offer balance, with award winning benefits including:

Benefits

• 9‑day working fortnight – meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
• Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
• Discounts – access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.

All candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance for this role.

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.

If you’re looking for a role with excitement, intrigue and something that really makes a difference then now is the time to join AWE.

We are at the start of a once in a generation – possibly two generations – programme to design and produce a replacement warhead for the UK’s continuous at sea deterrent. We will do this while continuing to deliver the Trident programme as well as managing ambitious state-of-the-art capital and construction projects – some of which have never been done before.