Requirements Lead (Defence Capital Projects)

Salary: £60,000 - 74,000 per year

Requirements

• Knowledge of defence capital infrastructure programmes is essential.
• Understanding of project governance, business case development, and infrastructure assurance processes.
• Experience managing multiple stakeholders with competing priorities within a regulated or complex organisational environment.
• We require active and valid SC-Level Clearance due to project sensitivities.
• We are looking for a collaborative team player who enjoys working closely with others and is passionate about delivering transformation programmes that create genuine value for the United Kingdom.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and documentation of requirements generation and project scoping workshops with defence stakeholders.
• Support the development of project scope, success criteria, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies to ensure a clear and agreed project baseline.
• Engage with military users, estate representatives, engineering teams, commercial specialists, and programme stakeholders to build consensus and resolve conflicting requirements.
• Produce high-quality requirements documentation.
• Identify risks, issues, gaps, and opportunities arising during the requirements definition process and provide recommendations for resolution.
• Support the preparation of Strategic Outline Cases (SOC), Outline Business Cases (OBC), and Full Business Cases (FBC).

Technologies

• Support
• Hardware
• PLC

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We are Pigment, a change and transformation consultancy that partners with other consultancies, government departments, and private sector organisations to deliver a one-team approach to solving complex change programmes. This is a UK-wide opportunity for a Capital Projects Requirements Lead to join our team and work across high-impact, complex defence capital infrastructure programmes where your work matters. We value collaboration, the ability to challenge and deliver, and working seamlessly across a blended delivery team. This role is offered inside IR35 at a day rate of £500 to £800, depending on experience, and due to project sensitivities our consultants must hold active SC-Level Clearance.

last updated 31 week of 2026