Research & Innovation - Technical Lead

Found in: Talent UK C2 - 2 weeks ago

Great Malvern, United Kingdom QinetiQ Full time

The Role


As a Technical Lead you will provide leadership and coherence to a technical team, planning and delivering the technical work, providing specialism where this fits your experience and coordinating and collating specialist input from a wider network. You will liaise with customers at a technical level to enhance our understanding of their requirements, and theirs of QinetiQ’s capabilities and offerings. Provide technical leadership of programmes, projects and proposals / bids in a defence research environment. Working alongside project managers, you will be responsible for the quality, pertinence and insight offered by our project, bid and research outputs, ensuring they are valued by our customers. On costed proposals / bids for individual opportunities you will lead the development of the technical solution and proposal document, and working closely with the project / bid manager to support production of the commercial aspects, including price, dependencies and risks. You will act as a focal point for internal and external stakeholder engagement, ensuring that expectations are understood and managed and that customers and project and programme managers are fully informed of technical progress and issues.


Essential skills, knowledge & capabilities of the Technical Lead 

Leadership of technical delivery or research projects requiring delivery of complex solutions or findings to a range of customers Ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels across the department, business, and externally with customers, suppliers and other stakeholders Able to ensure that customer needs and expectations are addressed and/or satisfied

Desirable characteristics of the Technical Lead 

Understanding of the defence operational environment and underlying domain specific issues Experienced in the planning and delivery of research / experimentation outputs Able to identify, conceive, review, and judge the suitability of technology solutions Familiar with working at Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) 1-3, investigating future technologies Experienced in the development and maturation of technology through the engineering lifecycle Able to manage multidisciplinary teams of scientists and engineers and scientists and a broad range of internal and external stakeholders whilst building and maintaining excellent relationships Able to proactively anticipate potential problems and deals with barriers Understanding of Technical Assurance Technical background / experience that includes one or more specialisms relevant to C4ISR2 / C5I An understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle and its implementation Interest in working with multiple teams, having significant customer interaction as well as interaction with internal QinetiQ domain experts

1 C5I – Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Cyber Intelligence 

2 C4ISR – Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance

Why Join QinetiQ?
As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture. 

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