SA Group is a dynamic, growing company working on vital commercial and public sector projects.
We have opportunities for talented and passionate people to work within the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) arena.
Training and Professional Development
Supporting our colleagues with their training and professional development is extremely important to us at SA Group, which is why we’re an Enterprise Partner of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) – one of the world’s leading professional societies for engineering and technology. This allows our team to have access to a number of online resources and a network of similar professionals to assist with their Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
Culture and Values
At SA Group our people are central to what we do, and we’re proud to have a strong and friendly culture where the Senior Management Team are approachable and operate an open-door policy. The company has been employee-owned since October 2021, meaning that all employees are fully engaged in the ambitious growth plans of the business, and rewarded for their valuable ideas.
Employee Wellbeing
The wellbeing of our staff is one of the highest priorities at SA Group. We have a number of Mental Health First Aiders within the company who regularly connect with staff, we organise social activities and encourage our staff to regularly connect with each other and with nature. In addition, the company has signed the Mental Health at Work Commitment – a framework curated by Mind highlighting the importance of staff wellbeing.
Benefits of working for SA Group
SA Group has been employee-owned since 2021. Click here for more information and to find out about the benefits to our employees.
- Competitive salary
- 25 days annual leave plus public holidays
- Pension
- Flexible working options including working from home
- Employee-owned
- Discretionary bonus (tax-free due to the Employee Ownership Trust)
- Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Social events calendar
- Private medical insurance with flexible cover options
- Life assurance
- Health cash plan with flexible cover options
Who we’re looking for
Experienced Professionals
We’re looking for hardworking and experienced engineers, managers and consultants to join our forward-thinking team. In return you will have the opportunity to develop your skills and learn from the best.
Graduates, apprenticeships, placement schemes and work experience
At SA Group there are plenty of opportunities for those starting out in their career or looking to strengthen their academic studies with hands-on experience. We offer interesting and rewarding apprenticeships, placement schemes and work experience, welcoming applications from motivated and ambitious individuals.
Service Leavers
SA Group is a proud supporter of the Armed Forces Covenant, having recently been awarded a Gold ERS in recognition of our support for the Armed Forces. We actively support veterans with their resettlement programme and their new careers in industry.
Our current vacancies
Project / Programme Manager
If you are an experienced Project/Programme Manager and enjoy complex and challenging highly secure environments, then we have an opportunity for you. The task will allow you to join as a Senior or Lead Consultant with management responsibility for some less experienced members of the team, and you will be a key part of a current programme of work being delivered.
You will join a collaborative working environment where you will be rapidly mobilised into a client facing project utilising hybrid working – combining working from home with the client site at MoD Corsham.
As you may be aware, the UK MoD is full of demanding stakeholders and complex projects and it is your job to manage expectations and lead the team down the path of best practice. You will be the kind of person that enjoys influencing people to your way of thinking.
You will use your experience of MoD and/or Defence projects and influencing what can be a challenging stakeholder community to keep your project milestones on target, You will be required to use best practice PM methodologies such as APM, Prince2, MoR or if you have not yet achieved all of them SA Group will support you in your continued professional development (CPD) and it will form part of your initial professional development planning.
Here at SA Group we have a growing client facing consultancy team made up of Project/Programme Managers, Enterprise/Solution Architects, Cyber Professionals, Technical specialists focused on networks, infrastructure, cloud, and Test Managers. The consultancy team is fully supported by a back office team.
The majority of our work is focused on MoD projects, however, that has also spread into Digital Transformation and System Engineering disciplines in both the wider public and private sector.
Due to the nature of the projects, you will need to have current DV or SC clearance in place, please only apply if your clearance is active.
For more information and to apply, please email your CV to careers@sa-group.com or clicking the apply button and we can schedule a conversation at your leisure.
Technical / Solutions Architect
Imagine a new opportunity where you are part of an architectural advisory capability; where you can use your technical capabilities to evolve the architecture of your customers, and where you can grow and broaden your own skills.
You will join our expanding consultancy team with responsibility for the definition and delivery of architectural solutions – from vision to reality. You will work externally with MoD and UK Government customers to meet business objectives and be accountable for ensuring that the design and development of those solutions are sustainable and fit-for-purpose for current and future business needs. We can align your skills to suit the most appropriate projects for both your current abilities and areas you are looking to develop.
Working with external stakeholders, you will collaborate closely with delivery teams in both the definition and realisation of architectural solutions. In your work you will benefit from collaboration with some of the brightest minds and best experts in the field.
At Lead / Principal Consultant level SA Group expect you to hold at least Incorporated status with a commitment to achieve Chartered status (e.g. IEng moving to CEng via the IET or CITP via the BCS);
SA Group is a Cyber Security, P3M and Technical consultancy working in Defence Security plus broader public service and blue chip commercial markets. We have ambitious growth plans over the next 5 years, aiming to expand into new sectors and internationally too. A recent strategic review of the business structure has created a number of consultancy positions to help achieve this growth.
The company is made up of around 45 consultants and business support professionals and based in a beautiful rural location near Westbury, Wilts. We are a highly energetic, tenacious and meritocratic team with grown up, people focused values. We operate a flexible working approach that meets the need of the customer as well. If that sounds like you, please get in touch.
For more information and to apply, please email your CV to careers@sa-group.com or clicking the apply button and we can schedule a conversation at your leisure.
Technical / Solutions Architect (Law Enforcement Programmes)
Keeping our communities safe is a very important task and that is why supporting our law enforcement communities is a vital and rewarding assignment.
If you are interested in new opportunities then you will be able to join a largely remote team delivering a range of technical and solution architecture services and support to law enforcement projects adopting secure and complex cloud solutions.
Supporting Home Office projects of this nature there are client sites across UK and some travel to your nearest ones will be required however both our customer and ourselves fully support remote working.
We also have significant activity across secure MoD programmes and opportunities to be assigned onto those projects will be available also should you wish, these will provide you with a variety of different project challenges, client interfaces and team members to work with.
The technical needs of these projects will require your knowledge of cloud technologies and solutions, government security standards and Agile / DevOps ways of working.
You will have worked on secure programmes recently and as a result you should still have live security clearance to SC or DV, or if you are in the position where the clearance has lapsed then we would still consider you but there may be a delay to start dates.
For more information and to apply, please email your CV to careers@sa-group.com or clicking the apply button and we can schedule a conversation at your leisure.
Security Assurance Adviser / Coordinator
If you enjoy reviewing documents for complex systems and assuring compliance against strict standards, advising on JSP440 and JSP604, producing RMADS and PIA documentation, chairing security working groups, scoping vulnerability assessments and penetration testing activities, then we’d like to hear from you.
We have a growing number of opportunities that will challenge you to grow your technical knowledge as well as use your current capabilities.
The standard range of qualifications you may have already achieved includes CCP SIRA, CCP ITSO, CISSP, CISM and if you are interested in developing further then we will be able to support you to do just that.
You may be required to support a range of MoD programmes primarily in Corsham or Hereford classified at Secret or Secret and Above so this will utilise the SC or DV clearance you hold.
SA Group is a Cyber Security, P3M and Technical consultancy working in Defence Security plus broader public service and blue chip commercial markets. We have ambitious growth plans over the next 5 years, aiming to expand into new sectors and internationally too. A recent strategic review of the business structure has created a number of consultancy positions to help achieve this growth.
The company is made up of around 45 consultants and business support professionals and based in a beautiful rural location near Westbury, Wilts. We are a highly energetic, tenacious and meritocratic team with grown up, people focused values. We operate a flexible working approach that meets the need of the customer as well. If that sounds like you, please get in touch.
For more information and to apply, please email your CV to careers@sa-group.com or clicking the apply button and we can schedule a conversation at your leisure.
Don’t see a suitable role? Apply speculatively
We welcome speculative applications from experienced candidates with an interest in what we do.
How to apply
or send your CV to:
careers@sa-group.com