War Gaming Designer

Job Title: Wargaming Designer

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

Salary: Circa £60,000 commensurate with skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Responsible for computational modelling & simulation and perform operational research & analysis
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to understand requirements and design of a variety of wargames
• Be involved in other projects in customer-facing teams depending upon your research and analysis skill set
• Provide data insights and conduct social science research
• Perform concept & capability assessments
• Conduct process & value stream mapping and business case development

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Expertise in designing manual wargames, including rule set creation and scenario development
• Ability to facilitate games and adjudicate outcomes based on rule sets
• Strong qualitative analytical skills to interpret game outcomes and provide actionable insights.
• Experience with or knowledge of defence strategies, military tactics, and historical conflicts
• Creativity in game design and development to address complex customer requirements
• Understanding of kinetic military operations and conflict scenarios

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Digital Intelligence Team:

At BAE Systems CORDA, we combine analytical capabilities with consultancy skills to support our customers across the defence, security and transport sectors, and our colleagues in other parts of BAE Systems. Our high-impact insights make the difference for our customers, whether it’s enabling battle-winning capabilities, developing novel technological concepts, or driving business performance.

CORDA is part of Digital Intelligence, which is home to 4,800 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 16 countries to collect, connect, and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

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, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also 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 that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 6th September 2024

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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