Software Transition Manager

Salary: £35,000 - 75,000 per year

Requirements:

• You must be a sole UK national and qualify for security clearance.
• You must have a bachelors degree or higher in Engineering or a closely related discipline.
• You must have relevant supportability engineering or service transition experience in a highly regulated industry, such as aerospace, nuclear, maritime, infrastructure, or oil and gas.
• You must have a good understanding of integrated hardware, software, firmware, data, and network infrastructure solutions and environments for defence products.
• You must have experience owning end-to-end support deliverables.
• You must have experience investigating and assessing support solutions using in-service data and developing verifiable process improvements.
• You must have experience writing and reviewing clear technical documentation for customers.
• You must have experience organising and supporting stakeholder meetings, gathering information, and progressing projects or solutions.
• You must understand systems engineering principles, including requirements management, integration, verification, and validation.
• Relevant supportability engineering experience in the UK Defence industry is desirable.
• Experience in support, service, or process design in a relevant highly regulated industry is desirable.
• Knowledge of UK Defence products and typical in-service or supportability issues is desirable.
• A good understanding of wider supportability challenges and trade-offs from a UK Defence customer perspective is desirable.

Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively with our client to ensure requirements are understood and the problem definition is captured effectively.
• Carry out supportability assessments and analysis relating to digital assets, computer resources, and software, and evaluate and investigate technical issues.
• Support or lead the transition of digital support policies, services, and procedures.
• Support or lead the development and maintenance of technical documentation in line with customer processes.
• Apply a practical systems-thinking approach to understand wider system interactions and solutions.
• Adapt as project requirements evolve and ensure relevant parties are notified of changes.
• Drive customer satisfaction.
• Implement, transition, and manage improvement activities for digital assets across multiple services, processes, and systems.
• Lead and represent working groups involving multiple stakeholders and industry partners.
• Deliver and use reporting to make recommendations for service improvement.
• Support requirements elicitation and management for future capabilities and support services.

Technologies:

• Firmware
• Hardware
• Support
• Network
• Security

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We are Quest Global, an engineering services firm with deep domain knowledge and recognized expertise across seven industries and leading OEMs. We are a 25-year-old company on a journey to become a centenary organization, driven by aspiration, hunger, and humility. Our diverse engineers work with Fortune 500 customers and believe in learning and succeeding together. We are expanding our Through Life Support Engineering capability and are seeking a Software Transition Manager to join an Integrated Logistics Support team supporting a customer. The role focuses on planning and developing support for Products, Systems and Equipment, especially the transition, design, and management of services supporting digital resources. This is a full-time role in the aerospace and defence field.

last updated 39 week of 2026