Cyber Capability Lead & Technical Architect

Dstl; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Specialist allowance

Skills allowances

Job summary

Dstl seeks a Principal Cyber Engineer to provide technical leadership across a diverse portfolio, shaping architectures and delivering secure cyber capabilities.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with stakeholders, and define approaches while ensuring delivery within time and risk constraints. The role includes onboarding specialist allowances and potential skills-related allowances.

Qualifications

• Degree in a relevant STEM discipline or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong software development in Python, C, C++, Java, Go or Rust.
• Experience with Linux and modern toolchains.
• Experience using Git within collaborative development environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development and delivery of cyber capabilities and prototypes.
• Provide technical leadership across complex cyber engineering activities.
• Shape architectures and engineering approaches for secure, effective and sustainable solutions.
• Apply software engineering, cyber technologies and secure development practices to solve challenging problems.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to integrate advanced cyber technologies.
• Influence and advise customers and stakeholders through evidence-based technical recommendations.
• Drive the delivery of outputs to agreed time, cost and quality requirements.
• Champion engineering excellence by improving tools, processes, standards and ways of working.
• Mentor, coach and support the development of less experienced engineers.
• Monitor emerging technologies and industry developments to enhance Dstl's cyber capabilities.
• Ensure work is carried out safely, securely and in accordance with governance.

Skills

Python

C

C++

Java

Go

Rust

Education

STEM degree or equivalent

Tools

Git

Job description

Dstl seeks a Principal Cyber Engineer to provide technical leadership across a diverse portfolio, shaping architectures and delivering secure cyber capabilities.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with stakeholders, and define approaches while ensuring delivery within time and risk constraints. The role includes onboarding specialist allowances and potential skills-related allowances.