Mission Systems Technology Lead Engineer
- Employer
- BAE Systems
- Location
- Warton, Preston
- Salary
- Salary: £55,345 – £60,326 (Commensurate with skills and experience)
- Closing date
- 2 Feb 2025
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- Discipline
- Aerospace & Aeronautical
- Sector
- Defence
- Job Type
- Engineer
Job Details
Job Description
Job title: Mission Systems Technology Lead
Location: Warton / Hybrid – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements. Please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role
Salary: £55,345 – £60,326 (Commensurate with skills and experience)
What you’ll be doing:
Define and lead Mission Systems research activities aligned to technology road maps, including architectures, concepts, designs and requirements in collaboration with internal and external partners
Ensuring an appropriate level of Engineering Governance is applied to all activities, working alongside Technical Authorities and domain governance specialists, such as Ground Test, Flight Test and Flight Operations, where required, and underpinning all work with high quality reports and appropriately targeted communications
Contributing to Technology Watch and Capability Development activities and reporting into Systems Delivery reviews, and identifying, articulating, and monitoring technical risks
Contributing technical content to Business Winning activities, including the development of business cases and proposals
Providing day-to-day Line Management to a small team of Engineers and thinking beyond traditional Engineering Discipline and team boundaries, and driving effective collaboration between multi-disciplinary internal and external teams
Your skills and experiences
Essential
A degree / HND in a STEM subject or equivalent relevant experience (preferably with Systems Engineering focus)
Systems architecting, design, development and systematic integration
Practical application of Agile methods across the requirements capture, planning and execution phases of projects
Technical data analysis, technical report writing, proposal/bid and business case development
A level of Line Management responsibility including objective setting and performance management
Desirable
The Pyramid Reference Architecture (PRA) and other Open Systems architectures such as FACE, ECOA, IMS, DDS
Fundamental Software Engineering practices e.g. the use of SOLID principles and software development using one or more high-level programming languages (e.g. C, C++, Java)
Use of Model Based Engineering, Model Based Systems Engineering approaches and the use of modelling languages such as SysML/UML
Practical knowledge of software-driven architecture approaches such as containerisation, micro services, virtual machines
Application of experimental approaches to evaluating research hypotheses in a logical and methodical manner
Benefits:
You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The Systems Technology & Capability Delivery Team:
An exciting role has arisen for a Mission Systems Technology Lead Engineer within the Systems Technology & Capability Delivery Team, within the FalconWorks® organisation at BAE Systems. This team strives to shape the future direction of research and development, and to deliver technology value into our future products aligned with the Air Sector business strategy. Taking a multi-functional, whole product life cycle approach, we assess the future Air Sector product needs to identify technology trends and enact plans to mature early concepts through to exploitation. This is a very different operating environment to well-established requirements-led product development activities.
The successful candidate will be a self-starter, adaptable, creative, and comfortable working in an agile and flexible environment where collaboration is essential to engaging with other stakeholders and building successful networks of contacts. You will have excellent communication skills to distil technical information across all stakeholders, bringing new ideas and a strategic vision to deliver technology value into our business.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.
We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.
Closing Date: 2nd February 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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Company
Whether you’re an experienced professional or just stepping out into the world of work, we’ve a wide range of career opportunities available. Whether it's engineering, technology or project management, you'll be helping our customers protect what really matters.
Our engineers are redefining global defence. From concept to completion, they innovate cutting-edge products and services across the land, air, and sea.
Digital is our future, and our IT teams are at the heart of it. Developing, implementing, and supporting the cutting-edge systems that keep the world safe and our business evolving.
Opportunities -
Working at BAE Systems brings immense opportunity. A long and fulfilling career, with first-class training and lifelong development available to all, with all the support to help make it happen.
The scale at which we operate generates endless opportunities to work across diverse roles, specialisms, cultures and countries. Achieving our growth ambitions needs everyone to own their role and find their unique place. This is a place to be curious, build your network, feel empowered and motivated by your team, sharing in our purpose to protect what matters and create a safer future.
As many of our team can demonstrate, it’s possible to have multiple careers throughout your time here. There’s always the opportunity to retrain or reskill, whether through a formal programme or exploring our on demand virtual learning platform where you can explore tailored resources aligned to each of our functions.
Learning beyond your role -
We provide the opportunity to get involved in projects outside of your primary remit. We encourage you to seek a stretch project in which you’ll gain different experiences. With our huge portfolio of products and our multinational presence, there are opportunities to get involved in something different around every corner. Additionally, we encourage involvement in community projects, STEM initiatives and our employee resource groups, which all provide valuable learning and development experiences that you may not have access to in your day-to-day role.
Learning and resources -
Lifelong learning is a reality at BAE Systems, and we’re proud to be a diverse, inclusive, and supportive employer, helping everyone build a career to be proud of, delivering our purpose of protecting those that protect us all.
Our resources are accessible at any time and from any device and consider inclusive learning styles by offering these through a variety of platforms such as videos, books, guides and structured virtual learning programmes through our digital learning platform.
Discover a career with meaning, in a place where you can make a real difference.
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