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# Principal Technical Lead

- **Company:** QinetiQ Group plc
- **Location:** Farnborough, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £69,300.0 - £77,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Systems Architecture, Information Technology
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://careers.qinetiq.com/talentcommunity/apply/1409494533/?locale=en_GB

## About the Role

* 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 on a delivery focused role within IT infrastructure with a broad and comprehensive understanding of concepts and principles

Essential qualifications for the Principal Technical Lead:

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 we 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 our 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.

## Description

As a Principal Technical Lead, to be responsible for 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 solution that are supportable through life
 * Leading engineering teams to deliver complex solutions and providing technical leadership for programme delivery
 * Providing technical assurance by through an excellent understanding of appropriate technical standards
 * Be responsible for the following (potentially through delegation) for the development of: Design Certifications, Technical Delivery Plans, High Level Documentation, Details Design Documentation, Testing schedules, Experimental plans, Technical Roadmaps and Technical reports and presentations


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