Systems Rig Integration Lead in Preston

Location: Warton – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £56,766+ depending on experience.

What you’ll be doing:

• Act as the Primary integration engineering point of contact for Typhoon Product development, meeting requirements for quality, timeliness and performance aspects.
• Provide engineering programme integration for Typhoon Product development, ensuring all governance and processes are followed with associated engineering planning, management and review activities.
• Develop relationships with internal customers/stakeholders and external partners to understand programme needs, technology/product strategies and supply chain capabilities in order to identify and manage programme level risks and opportunities.
• Act as the primary point of contact for Engineering for the Programme and undertake the business reporting required by the programme.
• Ensure sufficient integration, test and evaluation activities are undertaken so that supporting integrations are fully compliant and delivered within agreed requirements for cost, quality, time and schedule.

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Experience Systems and Software architecting.
• Practical application of good Systems Engineering (Hardware & Software) practices across the entire lifecycle with a particular focus on early concept development, architecture development and integration with a particular focus on design for re-use.
• Requirements capture and management within ill-defined and rapidly changing environments, ideally based on the Agile management of programmes vs traditional waterfall approaches.

Desirable:

• Product Security / Secure by Design background.

Benefits:

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.

The Typhoon Product Strategy Team:

An opportunity has arisen in Typhoon Product Development to lead the Rig Integration and Infrastructure team to support the development and delivery of our specific rig environments and programmes within Typhoon Product Development Scope (Cockpit development, Common compute, 5th Generation Human Man Interfaces, Crewed and Uncrewed Teaming and Information Interop).

The Technology Demonstration & Integration Manager will work with Air Sector Service Delivery Units, FalconWorks Systems, Platform teams, Digital Intelligence and key external partners/suppliers to scope, develop and deliver the capability in line with the Typhoon Product development road-map.

With real opportunities for progression and the chance to shape meaningful outcomes, this role offers the perfect blend of challenge, development, and teamwork in a vibrant, supportive environment.

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.

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: 22nd January 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.