Domain Requirements Manager

If you’d like to be considered for this opportunity we encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment as if applications are high the role will close before the closing date given.

Role: Domain Requirements Manager

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

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

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.

Let us introduce the role:

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.

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:

• 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.  

Next steps:

Everyone who works at AWE brings unique skills and perspectives to the table. We recognise that great people don’t always ‘tick every box’. That’s why we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience. Even if you don’t meet every point above, but you feel that this role and AWE are a great fit for you, please go ahead and apply, we’d love to receive your application.

Important things you need to know:

• We encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment if applications are high and the role therefore closes.
• 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.