Lead Technology Development Engineer

BAE Systems - Saudi Arabia; Preston; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor in the United Kingdom is seeking a Lead Technology Development Engineer. In this role, you will engage with internal and external customers to guide and drive the support technology strategy. The ideal candidate has experience in digital technology development and excellent communication skills. This position offers a salary starting at £56,766+ based on skills and experience, along with flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health and lifestyle benefits

Private health plans

Shopping discounts

Qualifications

• Experience of technology capability insertion from concept through to deployment.
• Highly collaborative with a willingness to embrace innovative approaches.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers to lead and drive support technology strategy.
• Capture requirements and use cases for technology innovation.
• Identify funding opportunities for technology development programmes.

Skills

Knowledge of digital technology development

Experience of technology capability insertion

Excellent communication skills

Highly collaborative

Tools

Python

Job description

Job Title: Lead Technology Development Engineer

Location: Warton/Samlesbury – 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+ depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Engaging with internal and external customers and technologists to lead and drive the support technology strategy
• Capture of requirements and use cases that will drive the need for innovation and technology exploitation to drive business benefit
• Identify funding opportunities across the business for research and developing exciting proposals for technology development programmes
• Generation of collaborative programmes, and identification of opportunities for funding, with key external partners, suppliers, SME’s
• Interface between BAE Systems and external research organisations on support technology research

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

• Knowledge and experience of digital technology development and approaches including utilisation of Cloud infrastructure
• Experience of technology capability insertion from concept through to deployment
• Highly collaborative, with a willingness to embrace innovative approaches and constructively challenge the status‑quo
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Desirable

• Programming (e.g Python) experience
• Awareness of civil aircraft operations
• Knowledge/experience of working in a DevSecOps development framework
• Awareness of AI approaches and techniques

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 Technology Development for Support and Training team:

As part of Future Air In‑Service support strategy there are exciting opportunities to get involved with development and delivery of transformative technologies that could help the In‑Service Support Operations for our Aircraft be smarter and faster as well as providing greener, sustainable solutions.

Driving technology innovation is key to help significantly reduce costs and improve the availability of operations now and on future platforms.

Key in our technology strategy is an end‑to‑end digital by default approach, from manufacture on the factory floor thorough to the Inservice Support in the operational environment and creating agility, effectiveness and efficiency across all aspect of the services and products we define and operate. Whether that’s opportunities related to area such as the utilisation of AI, looking at approaches for building digital twins of our vehicles and services or technology developments within a human/ machine team environment.

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: 10th December 2025

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.