Principal Technical Lead

QinetiQ Limited; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched contribution pension scheme

Generous holiday allowance

Private medical insurance

Job summary

QinetiQ Limited in the United Kingdom seeks a Principal Technical Lead to manage engineering efforts and ensure coherent system design for their Share Computing Environment. This role requires strong leadership to oversee multi-disciplinary teams across various sites.

Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in stakeholder engagement and systems engineering, with a degree in Science or Engineering. Benefits include a pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, and options for private medical insurance.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in establishing high performing multi-disciplinary teams.
• Extensive experience in integration of new hardware and software.
• Strong understanding of system architecture for communications systems.

Responsibilities

• Oversee work across a multi-disciplinary technical team.
• Engage with customers and stakeholders to shape requirements.
• Lead engineering teams to deliver complex solutions.

Skills

Engineering management

Stakeholder engagement

Systems engineering lifecycle

Virtualisation solutions

IT infrastructure

Education

First degree in Science or Engineering

Job description

Principal Technical Lead

Responsible for engineering management and oversight of a consistent and coherent system design for our Share Computing Environment at one of our sites in Scotland, ensuring efficient delivery within the Maritime Test Evaluation and Training Integrated Delivery Team.

Responsibilities

• Oversee work across a multi-disciplinary technical team, coaching and mentoring engineers across the IDT to improve their engineering outputs.
• Engage with relevant internal and external customers and stakeholders to interpret and shape their requirements, allowing for the research, design, and development of solutions.
• Work with programme managers and business development leads to support the development of winning proposals and deliver coherent engineering solutions that are supportable through life.
• Lead engineering teams to deliver complex solutions and provide technical leadership for programme delivery.
• Provide technical assurance through an excellent understanding of appropriate technical standards.
• Be responsible, potentially through delegation, for the development of Design Certifications, Technical Delivery Plans, High Level Documentation, Detailed Design Documentation, Testing schedules, Experimental plans, Technical Roadmaps, and Technical reports and presentations.

Essential Experience

• Demonstrable experience of establishing high performing multi-disciplinary teams.
• Extensive experience dealing with stakeholders and overseeing the integration of new hardware and software into existing systems.
• A good understanding of the complete end-to-end system architecture for communications systems.
• A strong grasp of the systems engineering lifecycle.
• Previous experience architecting and supporting the delivery of on-premises virtualisation solutions.
• Extensive experience working on a delivery-focused role within IT infrastructure with a broad and comprehensive understanding of concepts and principles.

Essential Qualifications

A first degree in Science or Engineering, or an equivalent, nationally recognised professional qualification combined with further on-the-job experience.

We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education; provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn, we would like to hear from you.

This role is 37 hours per week based at any of our UK main sites with a minimum average site attendance of three days per week. Travel to other QinetiQ and customer sites will be expected.

Multi‑Site

QinetiQ operates state-of-the-art facilities across the UK that focus on defence, security and technology innovation, enabling a wide range of research, testing and development activities for military and civilian applications.

All applicants for this role must be willing to go through DV Clearance.

At QinetiQ we are committed to building an inclusive, accessible and welcoming workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We believe that a diverse mix of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences drives innovation and leads to better outcomes for our people, customers and communities. We encourage applications from all candidates and are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing [e-mail].

Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which means factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

Benefits

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days.
• Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance.
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more.
• We support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
• Volunteering opportunities – helping charities and local community.