Product Strategy Engineering Lead

Overview

The Typhoon Product Strategy Team is looking for a leader to drive the development, management, and integration of the Typhoon Product Strategy. This includes documenting the roadmap for Typhoon, identifying key activities to develop the platform, and ensuring it remains fit to fight now and in the future. You will manage a team of engineers who maintain the company's strategic development approach and play a key role in defining and managing product strategy and product technical management activities that surround the concept development and demonstration lifecycle.

• Act as the primary integration engineering point of contact for Typhoon Product Strategy development, meeting requirements for quality, timeliness, and performance aspects
• Manage the upkeep of the Typhoon Product Strategy roadmap through inputs from stakeholders
• Support the development of the Typhoon Product Strategy through regular engagement with stakeholders
• Support the development of specific reports and white papers documenting strategies around key strategic focus points identified by the SLT
• Manage and develop the Typhoon Product Strategy engineering team
• Review and agree on the Typhoon Product Routemap, ensuring it is accurate and meets requirements for quality, timeliness, and performance
• Work closely with Technical Management Teams and SDUs to identify potential future approaches to providing enhanced capabilities for Typhoon, documenting the output in reports/whitepapers for consideration by the wider business
• Systems and Software architecting
• Practical application of good Systems Engineering practices across the entire lifecycle with a particular focus on early concept development, architecture development and integration
• Requirements capture and management within ill‑defined and rapidly changing environments
• Managing people through rapid change and nurturing teams for growth
• Working collaboratively with internal and external partners
• Engineering management and technical artefacts development
• Business case development and presentation

• Knowledge of aircraft systems
• Recognition of a higher‑level qualification in a STEM subject, and either having or being pursuing professional registration (IEng, CEng)

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.

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.

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.