Capability Lead – High Performance Computer and Analytical Computing, Submarines

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Job Description
High Performance Computer Engineering Lead
Full Time
Derby, Raynesway
Why Rolls-Royce?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for you to join our Submarines business as a
Capability Lead
within the High Performance Compute (HPC) and Analytical Computing IT provision based in Derby.

Reporting to the Chief of PLM and Engineering IT, you will work closely with our customer, local Engineering Analysts, and the specialists within the wider Rolls-Royce Group to ensure our analytical computing capability, including our HPCs, is well maintained, fit-for-purpose, and will meet future business demand. You will be actively working with Amentum, Rolls-Royce IT and the MoD to ensure the analysis capability is used and maintained to industry standard whilst maintaining the required collaboration capabilities and still meeting the expectations of end users.

Significant investment has been made in our high-performance computing capability to provide both business continuity and enable a step change in performance in our engineering analysis tools. There is more to come, with planning for the next HPC capability uplift in 3 years time, already in work.

Why Rolls-Royce?
Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

We'll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

What We Offer
We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It's a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we're all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What You Will Be Doing
In this role you manage the loading and scheduling of work and report on system performance and utilisation on the MoD hosted HPC environments to ensure maximum usage, whilst enabling high priority emergent work, as well as:

• Day-to-day decision-making on share and priority of compute and visualisation nodes on the HPC environments.
• Manage the migration of analysis capability to new HPC environments and data storage systems and provide technical requirements to the commissioning and decommissioning of HPCs.
• Communicating and managing HPC processes and change control with the stakeholders including being the point of contact for users and the system providers.
• Manage access permissions and user groups, including advising on NTK permission groups within current process.
• Represent Rolls-Royce Submarines at HPC Stakeholder meetings with the Customer and Jacobs. Reporting on usage, storage and issues at this meeting.
• Provide advice and guidance on bespoke analysis tools and their implementation to the analysis community.
• Work with the RR exchange team to ensure that data transfer processes between the analysis systems are efficient and monitored, including day-to-day approval of transfers from the HPC system.
• Coordinate licensing updates and procurement with the RR and MoD licensing teams.
• Be involved in and lead the determination of the future strategy for analysis tools, with engineering specialists and analysts within RR Submarines. Whilst maintaining visibility of up-and-coming HPC technologies in collaboration with the University Technology Centres.
• Coordinate testing of new features and functionality.

Who We're Looking For
At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate evidence of the following elements:

• Have some working-level experience of High-Performance Computers and their use or similar environments.
• Educated to degree-level or equivalent in a relevant engineering or IT discipline.
• Familiar with a large range of design and analysis software.
• Demonstrate a track-record of delivery.
• Comfortable operating in a customer-facing role with excellent communication and influencing skills, with ability to interact effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Well organised.
• Experience of managing Engineering projects, from a resourcing, scheduling and performance perspective.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We're committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we'll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines business an individual has to hold a Security Check clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.

Job Category
Validation and Verification

Posting Date
10 Oct 2025; 00:10

Posting End Date
22 Oct 2025