Lead SCIDA Engineer

weServed; Oakhanger; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee share scheme

Flexible working

Job summary

Babcock is recruiting a Lead Site Co-ordination and Installation Design Authority Engineer to support critical UK military satellite communications networks. You will oversee configuration and installation activities, ensure security and regulatory compliance, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across Colerne, Hawthorn, and Oakhanger.

The role requires capability to manage change, CMDB processes, and ensure high standards from design to completion in a highly regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in a Defence SCIDA role or equivalent.
• Understanding of security architecture in compartmented environments.
• Experience with ICT systems in complex environments.
• Knowledge of JSP 604, JSP 440 and BS EN standards.
• Experience creating and maintaining configuration management documents.

Responsibilities

• Configuration control for all installation activities at sites.
• Liaise with stakeholders for proposed configuration changes.
• Allocate equipment, room, rack and floor space; quality control of installations.
• Ensure compliance with ISO and JSP standards.
• Maintain CMDB processes across hardware and software.
• Final authorisation on project completion with Certificate of Conformity.

Skills

SCIDA experience

Security architecture

ICT systems

BS EN standards

Configuration Management

Education

CIDA training or SCIDA role

Job description

Job Title: Lead SCIDA Engineer

Location: Oakhanger, Hawthorn + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF73991

Shape secure communications that protect national security

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Lead Site Co-ordination and Installation Design Authority Engineer at Colerne and Hawthorn near Corsham, Wiltshire and Oakhanger, near Bordon, Hampshire.

The role

As a Lead Site Co-ordination and Installation Design Authority Engineer, you’ll take a leading role in supporting one of the United Kingdom’s most critical military satellite communications networks. Working within our Mission Systems business, you’ll oversee complex configuration and installation activities, ensuring infrastructure is compliant, secure, and built to the highest standards.

This is a unique opportunity to work at the forefront of defence and aerospace engineering, where every decision you make supports, secure communications used to protect the nation. You’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, influence engineering design and delivery, and enhance your expertise in highly regulated, technically advanced environments.

Day-to-day, responsibilities will include:

• Configuration control for all engineering installation activities at communication sites
• Liaising with all stakeholders, internal and external for proposed configuration changes
• Allocating equipment, room, rack and floor space, quality control of all installations work carried out at sites
• Ensuring compliance with appropriate standards (ISO & JSP)
• Ensuring the Configuration Management for all ICT projects is captured, catalogued and maintained.
• Quality assessment of all ICT projects to ensure the installation/changes comply with the design and required standards
• Final authorisation on project completion (Certificate of Conformity)
• Ensure suitable CMDB processes are completed to maintain the Configuration Management of all hardware and software across the communication estate

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides an element of hybrid working but will also need to travel between sites. There will be regular travel between our Colerne, Hawthorn and Oakhanger sites.

Essential experience of the Lead SCIDA Engineer

• Experience in an SCIDA role within a Defence setting
• An understanding of security architecture required within compartmented certified environments
• Experience of ICT systems in complex environments
• Knowledge of JSP 604, 440 and relevant BS EN standards
• Experience creating, maintaining, and cataloguing Configuration Management documentation

Qualifications for the Lead SCIDA Engineer

• CIDA training or evidence of working in a SCIDA role

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role. Must be Sole UK National.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows you to buy or sell annual leave
• ‘Be Kind Day’ to support volunteering
• Flexible working to help you balance life and work
• A dynamic working environment with opportunities for growth and progression

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 28/10/2026

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