Lead Technology Development Engineer

Job Title: Lead Technology Development Engineer

Location: Warton/Samlesbury – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: £54,793+ depending on skills and experience

Referral Scheme Bonus: £2000

Grade: F

You’re expected to have completed 12 months in role prior to applying for an advertised vacancy and you should also discuss the internal opportunity with your line manager to ensure sustained business continuity and to further support your career development.

We know there may be exceptional individual circumstances that impact this, in the first instance please discuss this with your line manager.

If you don’t feel you can talk to your Line Manager, you can contact your HRBP.

PLEASE NOTE: Should you be invited for interview; you acknowledge that the Recruitment team will contact you and your line manager regarding your application for this opportunity.

What you’ll be doing:

Engaging with internal and external customers and technologists to lead and drive the support technology strategy

Capture of requirements and use cases that that will drive the need for innovation and technology exploitation to drive business benefit

Identify funding opportunities across the business for research and developing exciting proposals for technology development programmes

Generation of collaborative programmes, and identification of opportunities for funding, with key external partners, suppliers, SME’s

Interface between BAE Systems and external research organisations on support technology research

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

Knowledge and experience of digital technology development and approaches including utilisation of Cloud infrastructure

Experience of technology capability insertion from concept through to deployment

Highly collaborative, with a willingness to embrace innovative approaches and constructively challenge the status-quo

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Desirable

Programming (e.g Python) experience

Awareness of civil aircraft operations

Knowledge/experience of working in a DevSecOps development framework

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Technology Development for Support and Training team:

As part of Future Air In-Service support strategy there are exciting opportunities to get involved with development and delivery of transformative technologies that could help the In-Service Support Operations for our Aircraft be smarter and faster as well as providing greener, sustainable solutions.

Driving technology innovation is key to help significantly reduce costs and improve the availability of operations now and on future platforms.

Key in our technology strategy is an end-to-end digital by default approach, from manufacture on the factory floor thorough to the Inservice Support in the operational environment and creating agility, effectiveness and efficiency across all aspect of the services and products we define and operate. Whether that’s opportunities related to area such as the utilisation of AI, looking at approaches for building digital twins of our vehicles and services or technology developments within a human/ machine team environment.

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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 10th December 2025