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System Design Authority – Engineering System
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Job Title: System Design Authority – Engineering System
Location: Warton – Hybrid, 3 days on site per week
We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: £61,110 (minimum)
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.
Job Description
You’ll play a key role in shaping technical solutions within the Engineering Support Competency Centre, working across engineering, manufacturing and support services to deliver integrated systems that support global programmes. You will define solution architecture, working with modern engineering tools and technologies to ensure systems are aligned to business needs, scalable and fit for purpose.
Collaborating with internal teams, external vendors and project managers, you’ll support design, planning and delivery activities while ensuring solutions meet quality, cost and timescale requirements. This role offers exposure to global projects, opportunities to influence innovative engineering systems and considerable development potential within a collaborative, forward-thinking environment.
Core Duties
- Defining solution architectures, ensuring designs meet business requirements within cost, time and technical constraints
- Capturing current and future system architectures, supporting application, data and technology design across projects
- Reviewing and assuring technical designs, ensuring solutions are fit for purpose and aligned to standards
- Collaborating with internal teams and external suppliers, supporting design delivery and system integration activities
- Supporting project planning, reviewing estimates and schedules to ensure effective and timely solution delivery
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Essential Skills
- Experience designing, developing, testing and releasing information systems within structured engineering or IT environments
- Knowledge of architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, supporting consistent and scalable solution design
- Experience overseeing incidents and problems, ensuring timely resolution and system stability
- Ability to engage and influence stakeholders, including customers, suppliers and internal teams across projects
- Relevant technical background or experience in systems engineering, IT architecture or similar disciplines
The Engineering Support Competency Centre (ESCC) Team
Working across engineering, manufacturing and support services, this function delivers critical technical solutions that enable global programmes to run effectively. By collaborating with internal teams and external partners, it drives innovation, system performance and continuous improvement—supporting business growth and advancing engineering capability worldwide.
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.
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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: 24th August 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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