Hybrid: Lead Digital Twin Engineer & Strategy

Digital Catapult; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent holiday package: 25 days

Discretionary company bonus

Hybrid working - 2 days per week in an

Private Medical Insurance

Life insurance 4x salary

EAP & Financial Wellbeing advice

Job summary

Digital Catapult in the United Kingdom is seeking a Lead Technology Specialist with Digital Twins expertise to guide a diverse team of engineers and innovation managers on cutting-edge Digital Twin projects across maritime, aerospace, and heritage sectors.

You will steer technical delivery, provide expert guidance on Digital Twin methodologies, and help shape the technical delivery strategy, while not carrying line management responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Hands on experience developing Digital Twins for use in an operational environment.
• Proven track record of leading technical teams in the delivery of complex projects or products.
• Deep knowledge of Digital Twin methodologies and enabling technologies, including IoT, edge computing, simulation, visualisation and data analytics, with a track record of advising other technical experts.
• Experience engaging senior stakeholders across industry, government or academia, translating uncertain or evolving needs into clear technical requirements and deliverable projects.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including producing reports, demonstrators and supporting collateral, coaching colleagues, and providing constructive feedback to support their development.
• Understanding of professional software development and maintenance practices, ideally supported by hands‑on coding experience in languages such as Python, C/C++, JavaScript, Go or Rust

Responsibilities

• Lead technical teams to deliver a broad range of engineering and consultative Digital Twin projects.
• Provide expert level advice on topics within the Digital Twin technology space.
• Ensure Digital Twins built within project teams are technically excellent and meet the needs of their stakeholders.
• Assess technical skillsets and personnel required by projects to succeed both in their design and as part of delivery and assist the Head of Technology Adoption with hiring and resource allocation.
• Help line managers to understand how their staff are performing in projects and support identification of their personal development needs.
• Support the Head of Technology Adoption in developing the technical delivery strategy for Digital Twin.

Skills

Digital Twins

Leadership of technical teams

IoT & edge computing

Simulation & analytics

Python

C/C++

JavaScript

Go/Rust

Job description

Digital Catapult in the United Kingdom is seeking a Lead Technology Specialist with Digital Twins expertise to guide a diverse team of engineers and innovation managers on cutting-edge Digital Twin projects across maritime, aerospace, and heritage sectors.

You will steer technical delivery, provide expert guidance on Digital Twin methodologies, and help shape the technical delivery strategy, while not carrying line management responsibilities.