Lead Technologist – Simulation

Job Description

Job Title: Lead Technologist – Simulation

Salary: Up to £70,000 (depending on skills and experience)

Location: Portsmouth Broad Oak – 3 days on site, 2 days working from home.

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.

What you’ll be doing:

This role plays a pivotal part in shaping and driving the MIMESIS Product Strategy, ensuring it evolves in line with customer needs, market trends and emerging technologies. You will help manage the product roadmap, IP framework, product breakdown structure and cost and licensing models, providing the structure and clarity needed to guide long‑term product development. Working as a connector across the organisation, you will collaborate with other BAE Systems businesses, partners and external stakeholders to advance simulation capability and unlock new opportunities within the Simulation and Training domain. A key part of the role is communicating the product vision with clarity and purpose, ensuring alignment across teams and stakeholders.

Alongside this, you will work closely with the Product Delivery Lead and System Design Authority to support horizon scanning, identifying technologies and future ways of working that will strengthen the product’s competitive edge. You will also contribute to workforce planning by helping define the skills and expertise required to deliver new solutions and advising on recruitment needs. In doing so, you play a crucial part in ensuring the right technology solutions are developed and that the right people are in place to deliver them, positioning MIMESIS for sustained success.

Core Duties:

• You’ll have demonstrated experience in leadership, engagement, and management within an engineering or technology-related environment.
• You will understand and discuss technical topics (including product strategy and roadmap, project integration, software development, Agile delivery, infrastructure, cost structures, and product licence management), without needing to be the subject-matter expert.
• You’ll have Experience in software and/or systems engineering.
• You’ll have Experience in project management and/or product development, with the ability to deliver outcomes aligned to project and business objectives.

The Product Team:

As Lead Technologist in the MIMESIS Product Team, you will help shape and deliver advanced simulation technologies, working closely with the Product Delivery Lead, System Design Authority and specialists across BAE Systems and partner organisations. MIMESIS provides a sophisticated maritime battlespace simulation, modelling environmental conditions, platform behaviour and complex systems such as sonar, radar and weapons. It supports naval training, enables exploration of future concepts and allows engineering teams to test and validate systems safely, improving readiness, reducing risk and accelerating capability development.

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: 25th March 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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