Rowden

Solutions Engineer

• Shape credible technical and delivery solutions for major bids and pre-sales opportunities, translating complex and often ambiguous customer problems into coherent engineering approaches that can be costed, planned and delivered.
• Provide senior architectural oversight and assurance of solution designs, holding delivery partners to account for technical decisions and ensuring alignment with agreed architectural principles and integration requirements.
• Engage confidently with customers, partners, and senior stakeholders - providing clear technical direction, resolving complex architectural challenges, and representing Rowden's technical authority in external conversations.
• Produce high-quality technical content for bids, proposals, white papers, and presentations.
• Interpret user requirements and translate them into architectural solutions that balance performance, risk, and delivery constraints.
• Investigate and assess hosting, integration, and platform options, understanding constraints, capabilities and trade-offs across complex environments.
• Identify, assess, and manage technical risks, ensuring they are clearly understood, communicated, and mitigated.
• Work with technical SMEs and principal engineers to draw in specialist input while maintaining overall ownership of solution coherence and delivery approach.
• Support early contract mobilisation, helping delivery teams translate bid-stage solution intent into executable engineering plans.
• Support the development of governance frameworks, standards, and assurance artefacts to enable consistent and repeatable delivery.

Solution Architect – All Levels

SDET

• Establish hardware test methodologies, protocols and standards across RF, electronics, networking and mechanical products.
• Define test coverage requirements, acceptance criteria and quality gates for all product lines from prototype through production.
• Build scalable, documented test processes that enable repeatable quality verification and traceability.
• Design and build the hardware test laboratory with appropriate instrumentation, RF test equipment, and automation capability.
• Own equipment selection, calibration, validation and maintenance across the test environment.
• Develop test automation to improve efficiency and reduce cycle time.
• Build and lead a growing hardware QA team, attracting and developing high-calibre test engineers.
• Mentor engineers and establish a culture of quality discipline and technical excellence.
• Work closely with product, engineering, manufacturing and supply chain teams to translate quality requirements into scalable, practical and repeatable processes.
• Lead hardware quality assurance and testing activities across all product lines and stages of development.
• Identify issues early, escalate risks and provide the engineering team with actionable feedback.
• Ensure products meet specification, reliability and performance standards before shipping.

Principal Quality Test Engineer, Hardware

Product Designer

• Own and develop the product roadmap aligned with market need and business strategy.
• Define a clear product vision, translating customer problems into actionable requirements.
• Prioritise features and capabilities across multiple platforms and constraints.
• Communicate vision clearly to cross-functional teams, customers, and stakeholders.
• Manage hardware product delivery across the full lifecycle; concept, design, prototyping, production.
• Own schedule, quality, cost and technical risk across product lines.
• Make trade-off decisions between performance, cost, timeline and capability in ambiguous environments.
• Drive integration and manufacturing readiness; understand supply chain constraints and logistics.
• Ensure products meet specification, reliability, cost targets and customer expectations.
• Build and lead a small team (design, engineering, and operations as needed).
• Support your team through technical decisions, problem-solving and career development.
• Work cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain and customer teams.
• Mentor engineers and establish a culture of accountability and pragmatism.
• Maintain direct relationships with customers; understand their operational needs and constraints.
• Respond quickly to market feedback and customer requests.
• Contribute to go-to-market strategy, pricing, business cases and bid development.
• Ensure customer and end-user needs are reflected in product priorities and decision-making.

Design Manager

Security Engineer

• Advise programme and engineering teams on governance, risk, and compliance - helping them identify security requirements.
• Work closely with customer stakeholders to push for security solutions that are both effective and realistic.
• Own and develop risk management and assurance documentation and Secure by Design artefacts for new projects.
• Support the security aspects of bids and contracts and liaise with contracting authorities and accrediting bodies.
• Support compliance with UK defence and government requirements, including the MOD Cyber Security Model and Def Stan 05-138, the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework, Secure by Design, and JSP 440 / Defence Security Policy Framework expectations.
• Track changes to relevant legislation, standards and guidance, including NCSC guidance, MOD requirements, ISO standards and UK GDPR / the Data Protection Act 2018.
• Help deliver security awareness and training, building a strong security culture.

Solution Architect – All Levels

Solution Architect – All Levels

Principal Quality Test Engineer, Hardware

Design Manager

Security Governance Risk & Compliance Officer