Principal Technical Lead
// Role Summary
Lead engineering management and system design for a critical Share Computing Environment as a Principal Technical Lead at QinetiQ, empowering and protecting lives through cutting-edge defence technology. This role involves extensive stakeholder engagement, team leadership, and technical assurance for complex IT infrastructure solutions.
// Key Responsibilities
- Oversee system design and engineering management for Share Computing Environment.
- Lead and mentor multi-disciplinary technical teams.
- Engage with stakeholders to define and shape requirements.
- Architect and support delivery of on-premise virtualisation solutions.
- Provide technical assurance for programme delivery.
- Requires DV Clearance and willingness to undergo national security vetting.
// Role Specification
Principal Technical Lead
Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow – we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations, our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Principal Technical Lead at any of our UK Main sites, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.
As a Principal Technical Lead, you will be responsible for the engineering management and oversight of a consistent and coherent system design for our Share Computing Environment at one of our sites in Scotland. Day-to-day, you’ll enable the delivery of our obligations within the Maritime Test Evaluation and Training Integrated Delivery Team, being responsible for the oversight of various programme streams to ensure efficient delivery.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Overseeing work across a multi-disciplinary technical team, coaching and mentoring engineers across the IDT to improve their engineering outputs.
- Engaging with relevant internal and external customers and stakeholders to interpret and shape their requirements to allow for the research, design, and development of solutions.
- Working with programme managers and business development leads to support the development of winning proposals and to deliver coherent engineering solutions that are supportable through life.
- Leading engineering teams to deliver complex solutions and providing technical leadership for programme delivery.
- Providing technical assurance through an excellent understanding of appropriate technical standards.
- Being responsible for the following (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-premise virtualisation solutions.
- Extensive experience working in 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 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, then 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.
Please note that all applicants for this role must be willing to go through DV Clearance.