Technical Lead – Home Office

Job Description

Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : London 

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

Job Title: Technical Lead

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

Grade: GG110-GG12

Referral Bonus: 5000

What You’ll Be Doing

The role holder will have consistently demonstrated personal mastery of all the accountabilities for the engineering roles relevant to their domain e.g. Software Engineer, Front End Developer, Electronics Engineer etc.  With this as a critical foundation, the Technical Leader will:

• Takes significant personal responsibility for the delivery of the project/product commitments and/or performance;
• Monitors and reports on the progress of development, communicating technical risks and dependencies effectively;
• Oversees the development cycle and ensuring outputs are developed to specification and the required quality standard, including documenting and evidencing this where required;
• Is the ambassador and team advocate of good technical practice;
• Is comfortable taking calculated risks to push the envelope for what is possible;
• Mentors the team in the application of engineering techniques (for example in software development: unit testing, CI/CD, TDD and static analysis etc.);
• Consistently applies company policies, procedures and standards, and promotes these to the team;
• Reviews the performance of development team members, identifying training needs and supporting career managers to provide guidance;
• Guides the technical coherence of the engineering implementation against team designs and plans;
• Takes a lead on establishing good estimates for any work that is being undertaken;
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending workshops; training, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks and participating in professional societies.
• Supports continuous improvement by investigating research on alternative technologies, tools and methods;
• Keeps up to date with industry trends and developments;
• Works effectively with other Technical Leaders to provide clarity and focus;
• Works closely and effectively with other roles to provide coherent leadership, for example, Agile Coaches, Engineering Managers, Project Managers;
• Supports building the company’s delivery capability by conducting technical interviews for candidate staff.

Team leadership accountabilities

• Build a team of professionals with appropriate skills, attitudes and motivation;
• Create an inclusive, empowering and physiologically safe space for engineers to work;
• Manage the team – which may be a group of managers themselves;
• Motivate the team – create physiological safety;
• Takes a view on the performance of team members;
• Identify any training needs of team members;
• Nurture and guide the technical ability of the team members;
• Provide input into the performance reviews of any team member

The team

We work hard and often go the extra mile, but we recognise people’s efforts and that everyone has a life outside of work. We encourage people to speak up if they want to rotate to a new project.

Benefits

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

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 which 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 under-represented 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 at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions such as your nationality, any nationalities which you previously may have held and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are able 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.

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence 

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.