Product Strategy Engineering Lead

Job title: Product Strategy Engineering Lead

Location: Warton

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £56,766+ dependant on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Act as the primary integration engineering point of contact for Typhoon Product Strategy development, meeting requirements for quality, timeliness, and performance aspects
• Manage the upkeep of the Typhoon Product Strategy roadmap through inputs from stakeholders
• Support the development of the Typhoon Product Strategy through regular engagement with stakeholders
• Support the development of specific reports and white papers documenting strategies around key strategic focus points identified by the SLT
• Manage and develop the Typhoon Product Strategy engineering team
• Reviewing and agreeing the Typhoon Product Routemap and ensuring the routemap is accurate and meets requirements for quality, timeliness and performance
• Work closely with Technical Management Teams and SDUs to identify potential future approaches to providing enhanced Capabilities for Typhoon documenting the output in reports/whitepapers for consideration by the wider business

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Systems and Software architecting
• Practical application of good Systems Engineering practices across the entire lifecycle with a particular focus on early concept development, architecture development and integration
• Requirements capture and management within ill-defined and rapidly changing environments
• Managing people through rapid change and nurturing teams for growth
• Working collaboratively with internal and external partners
• Engineering Management and Technical Artefacts Development
• Business case development and presentation

Desirable:

• Knowledge of Aircraft systems
• You will ideally have a recognised higher-level qualification in a STEM subject, and either have or be pursuing professional registration (IEng, CEng).

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 Typhoon Product Strategy Team

An opportunity has arisen in Typhoon Product Strategy to lead the development, management, and integration of the Typhoon Product Strategy. This includes documenting the roadmap for the development of Typhoon, alongside identifying the key activities required to develop the platform and make it fit to fight now and in the future.

Core to this role, you will manage a team of engineers who document and maintain the company’s approach to Typhoon strategic development.

You will also play a key role in defining and managing the product strategy and product technical management activities that wrap around the concept development and demonstration lifecycle.

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.

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: 6th February 2026

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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