Technical Lead

Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : London 

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

Job Title: Lead Software Engineer / Technical Lead

Location: London- Hybrid

Grade: GG10 - GG12

Applicants will need to be eligible to work in the UK and hold (or be eligible for) UK security clearance, including enhanced customer clearance.

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

Are you passionate about working with technology and self-motivated to find innovative solutions to complex challenges as part of a team who help keep the UK safe? Join BAE Systems as an experienced Software Engineer / Technical Lead.

As a key leading member of a Software Engineering team, you’ll be working with our Law Enforcement Customers to build systems that support their core mission capabilities. You’ll work as part of agile teams with regular contact with end-users to flexibly and efficiently understand, design, develop, deploy and maintain secure applications and services. You’ll be encouraged to identify new ways of solving problems and have the potential to work in a range of different teams across our customer organisations. You’ll be part of the biggest defence company in the UK however we have a startup-like culture nurtured by sports and social clubs, being a safe place to fail, meaning and self-fulfilment over business, and learning from our partners, suppliers, and peers.

We build a very broad range of capabilities for our customers and value Engineers who enjoy playing a role in the full delivery lifecycle and are flexible to learn and pick up new technologies and approaches. You’ll be playing a role in identifying the right technologies to use for the job and be supported with training as needed through access to services such as Pluralsight.

Not only will your team be directly making a huge impact upon the systems you work on, you’ll be doing it for an organisation who makes a huge impact to the security of the UK.

About you

You will have experience in many of the following:

• Programming in one or more of JavaScript, Java, .Net, Python
• Collaboratively designing and building Proof of Concepts or Production systems
• Source controlling your code with Version Control Systems, e.g. Git
• Utilising CI/CD tools, such as Bamboo, Jenkins, Gitlab etc in order to streamline delivery of new features and fixes
• Continual testing of code using Automated Testing Frameworks
• Ensuring code consistency and quality by utilising static code analysis tools e.g. SonarQube
• Team working inside an agile environment e.g. Scrum, Lean, Kanban
• Define and enforce coding standards, code reviews and development ways of working
• Common software design patterns
• Able to organise and plan work for development teams
• Passionate about developing and mentoring mid - junior engineers promoting continuous improvement
• Excellent client facing skills

It would be great if you also had experience in some of these, but if not we’ll help you with them:

• Deploying and managing in Cloud Computing such as AWS
• Containerisation e.g. Docker, Kubernetes
• Relational, document, or graph database systems
• Software configuration and deployment e.g. Ansible, Terraform

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.

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence 

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.