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About Rowden
We’re building the next UK-headquartered engineering powerhouse.
At Rowden, we design and integrate advanced systems that sense, connect, and protect data in challenging environments where quick decisions are vital. Our solutions use intelligent automation to enhance speed and efficiency and are built to be reliable and straightforward for critical operations in remote or high-pressure settings.
Headquartered in Bristol (UK), we combine modern engineering methods with cutting-edge commercial technology to create adaptable, mission-critical systems. We focus on solving the tough challenges that others overlook, ensuring our customers can operate effectively in an ever-changing world.
Our team of Forward Deployed Specialists
Join Rowden’s Forward Deployed Team and work where the action is.
You'll collaborate directly with customers on-site, tackling their most complex technology challenges. From diagnosing critical issues to deploying innovative solutions, you'll be at the forefront of solving real-world problems that matter. If you're hands-on, thrive in fast-paced environments, and want to see the impact of your work up close – this is the team for you.
What’s in it for you:
- Impact and Purpose:Your work makes a difference — directly supporting defence, national security, and frontline operators.
- Professional Growth:Experience faster learning, deeper technical challenges, and exposure to real-world constraints that sharpen your skills.
- Team Expansion:Be part of a growing team that’s delivering results and scaling up. Help us shape what forward deployment looks like as we expand into new projects and new regions.
The Opportunity
We’re looking for a range of technical and project specialists to work on mission-critical challenges for our customers. If you have skills in the following areas, we'd love to hear from you:
- Project Management
- Cyber Security and Security Engineering
- Software Development and DevSecOps
- Infrastructure Engineering (On-prem/hybrid/cloud)
- Product Owners
Key Areas of Responsibility
We are looking to grow our team. You will play a crucial role working directly with our end users to deliver mission critical capabilities.
We’d love to hear from you if you are interested in the following types of roles:
- Technical Project Managers & Product Owners:Lead the delivery of complex projects, ensuring they meet customer needs and align with strategic goals.
- Security Consultants:Provide expert guidance on security strategies, helping clients protect their critical systems and data.
- Software Engineers:Drive the development of cutting-edge software solutions, with opportunities to specialise in mobile or other key technologies.
- DevSecOps Engineers: Integrate security seamlessly into the development and deployment process, ensuring secure and efficient delivery pipelines for critical systems.
- Cloud Engineers (AWS):Design and implement scalable cloud solutions that enable our customers to modernise their IT infrastructure.
Role requirements:
- Job Type:Permanent and contractor roles available.
- Salary:Competitive, dependent on experience.
- Location:Bristol HQ / West Midlands customer site / Remote.
- Dynamic (hybrid) working:Minimum of 3 days per week on customer site, due to workload classification (depending on role). With occasional travel to Rowden’s head office in North Bristol and remote work flexibility.
- Security Clearance:SC essential / DV preferred. Candidates with SC should ideally be willing to undergo DV clearance if required. There is an FAQ document attached to this advert which explains about the process.
About You
You should bring a strong blend of technical skills and experience, along with key behavioural competencies that are vital for success at Rowden as follows:
- Experience working in environments that demand high levels of adaptability and resilience—such as military, defence, or other mission-critical sectors—is highly valued.
- Strong technical expertise in your discipline, with the ability to apply your skills effectively in complex and challenging environments.
- The ability to embed yourself within client teams, build and maintain strong relationships and collaborate effectively on shared goals to deliver high-quality outputs.
- The ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities, cope with uncertainty, and pivot direction as needed in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- A proactive attitude with the confidence to take the initiative, while also knowing when to seek advice or collaborate.
- Critical thinking skills, with the ability to analyse information, ask the right questions, and make informed decisions under pressure.
- Excellent organisational and communication skills.
- A true team player with excellent interpersonal skills who leverages expertise across functional areas to achieve collective success and supports others.
- Resilience and tenacity, with the ability to bounce back from setbacks and find new ways forward.
We encourage applications from individuals with an ex-forces background (including serving members with 6-12 months left) or experience working in similar mission-critical environments. Your experience in high-pressure, operational settings will be invaluable in helping our customers achieve their objectives.
Working at Rowden
We are committed to building a flexible, inclusive, and enabling company. Our aim is to create a diverse team of talented people with unique skills, experience, and backgrounds, so please apply and come as you are!
We also recognise the importance of flexible working and support this wherever we can. We typically operate a flexible, hybrid-working model, as detailed above. We welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility, part-time working requirements and/or workplace adjustments with all our applicants.
Rowden is a Disability Confident Committed company, and we actively encourage people with disabilities and health conditions to apply for our roles. Please let us know your requirements early on so that we can make sure you have everything you need up front to help make the recruitment process and experience as easy as possible.
Finally, if you feel that you don’t meet all the criteria included above but have transferable skills and relevant experience, we’d still love to hear from you!
Our Mission:
To create the best possible technology for frontline operators.
We’re upending the conventions of government technology provision and bringing a leaner, more transparent, and lower-friction approach that reduces waste and places outcome over process. We believe every possible measure should be taken to provide frontline operators in today’s dynamic and rapidly changing world with the technology they need to help keep themselves and others safe.
Our Vision:
We offer fast and flexible solutions to the technical challenges of public sector organisations.
We are specialists in software-centric systems, with deep expertise in developing capabilities for constrained networking environments or with challenging cyber security requirements. But the Rowden difference is as much cultural as it is technical: ‘what we do’ and ‘how we do it’ are equally important. We are specifically organised to create and sustain pace, reduce waste and inefficiency, and drive better outcomes. You’ll see and feel that energy and intent all over our business.
What matters to us?
- Our focus is on the end user. We exist to deliver the best possible outcomes for the users of our systems.
- Pace matters. The problems we solve are urgent.
- Our diverse skills and backgrounds make us better. Our team prides itself on being inclusive and multidisciplinary.
- We are radically honest. Saying what we mean, even when it isn’t easy.
- We are pragmatists. We provide realistic, focused solutions that get to the point.
- We improve continuously. We are relentless in our drive to make things better.
