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.

TEAM LEADERSHIP ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Build a team of professionals with appropriate skills, attitudes and motivation;
• Create an inclusive, empowering and physiologically safe space for engineers to work;
• Manage the team – which may be a group of managers themselves;
• Motivate the team – create physiological safety;
• Takes a view on the performance of team members;
• Identify any training needs of team members;
• Nurture and guide the technical ability of the team members;
• Provide input into the performance reviews of any team member

The role holder will have consistently demonstrated personal mastery of all the accountabilities for the engineering roles relevant to their domain e.g. Software Engineer, Front End Developer, Electronics Engineer etc. With this as a critical foundation, the Technical Leader will:

• Takes significant personal responsibility for the delivery of the project/product commitments and/or performance;
• Monitors and reports on the progress of development, communicating technical risks and dependencies effectively;
• Oversees the development cycle and ensuring outputs are developed to specification and the required quality standard, including documenting and evidencing this where required;
• Is the ambassador and team advocate of good technical practice;
• Is comfortable taking calculated risks to push the envelope for what is possible;
• Mentors the team in the application of engineering techniques (for example in software development: unit testing, CI/CD, TDD and static analysis etc.);
• Consistently applies company policies, procedures and standards, and promotes these to the team;
• Reviews the performance of development team members, identifying training needs and supporting career managers to provide guidance;
• Guides the technical coherence of the engineering implementation against team designs and plans;
• Takes a lead on establishing good estimates for any work that is being undertaken;
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending workshops; training, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks and participating in professional societies.
• Supports continuous improvement by investigating research on alternative technologies, tools and methods;
• Keeps up to date with industry trends and developments;
• Works effectively with other Technical Leaders to provide clarity and focus;
• Works closely and effectively with other roles to provide coherent leadership, for example, Agile Coaches, Engineering Managers, Project Managers;
• Supports building the company’s delivery capability by conducting technical interviews for candidate staff.