Senior Technical Authority

We are using and creating technology to transform operations at sea to enable people and the planet to thrive.

We are open-minded and fearless in our approach to innovation and don’t believe in boundaries. We challenge everything and have massive ambitions to drag aging industries into the tech era.

We take safety, equality and education very seriously, and our responsibilities don’t stop at our front door. Our business is built on the belief that there’s definitely a more environmentally responsible way to operate at sea.

We employ people who share our core values. We expect our people to be courageous, trustworthy, and conscientious, driven by a desire to do the right thing. We strive for excellence, work collaboratively, and are genuinely excited by our work.

We offer opportunities for our people to develop beyond their role and span a multitude of disciplines. These are open to all, regardless of background and experience level. Working with us means being part of a team that is harnessing technology and creativity to disrupt a traditional industry.

We are not your average workplace.

Worker Type: Employee

Ocean Infinity is recruiting a Programmes Technical Authority to holdformal accountability for technical integrity, design assurance, and safe delivery of complex maritime and defence systems across major programmes.

You will act as the Design Authority / Technical Authority,maintaining the approved technical baseline and ensuring all systems arefit for purpose, safe tooperate, and compliant with contractual and regulatory requirements across the full lifecycle.

The roleoperatesindependently of delivery pressures, providing objective engineering judgement and assuring that programme decisionsmaintainsystem integrity and operational effectiveness.

• Act as thedesign and technical authority for all systems and subsystems within the programme
• Own andmaintaintheauthorised technical baseline, including architecture, interfaces, and configuration control
• Ensure all design decisions aretraceable to requirements and justified through engineering evidence
• Lead integration across vessels, payloads, mission systems, and software to ensurecoherent system behaviour
• Ensure all technical deliverables areverified,validated, and accepted against defined requirements and acceptance criteria
• Maintainend-to-end design integrityacross hardware, software, communications, sensing, and autonomy systems
• Act as theauthoritative technical interface with customers, suppliers, and internal engineering teams
• Provide independent technical input to supportinformed trade-offs between risk, cost, and schedule

Establish andoperateaformal systems engineering governance frameworkcovering:

Requirements management;

Interface control;

Verification & validation (V&V);

Integration strategy and planning;

Technical risk management;

Defect management and resolution.

Maintain and govern the engineering baseline and configuration control system

Ensureauditability and evidence-based assuranceof all engineering decisions

Assure that systems aresafe, compliant, and operationally effective across test, acceptance, and deployment phases

Leadroot cause analysis and technical investigations for significant issues

Serve as thesenior escalation authority for technical and engineering risk

Chair and governdesign reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, etc.) and technical decision forums.

Ensure compliance with:

Defence standards and assurance frameworks;

Applicablesafety, security, and regulatory requirements

Challenge internal teams and suppliers to ensure technical maturity, readiness, and compliance

Provide oversight of technical risk acceptance, ensuring risks are understood, documented, and authorised at the appropriate level

Act as the technical interface to defence customers, ensuring alignment with operational requirements and acceptance expectations

Assure supplier designs and outputs are compliant with system requirements and integration constraints

Support programme leadership in managingtechnical dependencies and integration risks across the supply chain