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Job Title: Digital Engineering Team Lead

Location: Cowes, Isle of Wight – on site

Salary: Up to £85,700 DOE + bonus scheme

Come and put yourself into a dynamic Digital Engineering Team Lead role at the forefront of real world demands in the defence industry. Alongside ensuring operational excellence for our existing products, there will be the opportunity to develop next generation radar products to counter emerging threats and contribute to our strategy for new technology. Your new day-to-day will be exciting and diverse by applying the principles of Digital Engineering across the entire engineering development lifecycle as you join in developing radar systems used by those who serve and protect us.

Who we are:

Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.

From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space, there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.

Role description:

The role provides technical leadership and mentoring to a high‑performing Digital Engineering team, with full responsibility for the learning and development of digital electronic engineers across the radar product portfolio. Acting as the subject matter expert for electronic engineering, you will influence technical direction, assure engineering excellence, and support business success by coordinating robust digital engineering estimates for bids and cost‑to‑complete activities. This is a key leadership role shaping capability, quality, and delivery in a critical technology domain.

Core duties:

Applying technical knowledge in the Digital and Electronic domain for complex Radar designs

Team leadership and mentoring of the Digital Engineering team

Responsible for the learning & development of the Digital Electronic Engineers working across the Radar product area

Subject matter expert in Electronic Engineering discipline

Coordinate Digital Engineering estimates in support of bidding activities and cost to complete estimates

Essential skills:

A degree in Electronic Engineering or strongly related subject

A solid understanding of the digital techniques design process including requirements generation, design and implementation. Knowledge of complex digital PCB design. Knowledge of digital devices in particular FPGAs

Enough knowledge to be able to specify against these technologies and communicate with specialists in these areas – digital, analogue, RF and electrical

Experience in the whole design process from requirements to design assurance and sign off

Team leadership, people development, mentoring, succession planning and resource demand forecasting experience

Previous experience of operating in a defence or high safety integrity environment

The Radar Systems Engineering team:

You will be working as a Digital Engineering Team Lead within our close-knit multi-function radar team of inter-disciplinary engineers, evolving our radar portfolio of existing and brand-new radar products to address emerging and future threats.

Join us and help shape the future of Radar technology!

Our workplace in Cowes is an easily accessible commute from Southampton with a regular foot passenger ferry and BAE shuttle service from the ferry terminal to site.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive:

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

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.

Closing Date: 16th April 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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