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Leidos

Technical Lead

Leidos

. Delivery and technical assurance of the solution within the quality, cost and schedule constraints .

Posted 5/23/2026full-timeFarnborough • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 £61,500 - £78,800 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Delivery and technical assurance of the solution within the quality, cost and schedule constraints
  • Achieving acceptance of the solution by the customer
  • Providing technical leadership and mentorship across the workstream team
  • Ensuring that the engineering processes within the project are commensurate with the requirements of the contracted standards and Leidos corporate governance
  • Identifying the skills and staff required to deliver the engineering solution
  • Defining the engineering practices and resources required to deliver the project and services within the constraints of the company engineering policies
  • Lead and manage effective engineering activities across the project
  • Preparing project specific technical documentation in collaboration with project discipline SMEs for PDR, CDR, SRR and SPR reviews and other technical sessions as required
  • Lead and deliver updates to baseline HLD / LLD documentation as required by the project
  • In collaboration with project PMs prepare technical WBS, PBS and resource BoEs against overall solution proposals for change proposals and on contract growth

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills and work well in a team environment
  • Ability to clearly articulate and communicate design and technical concepts in written and verbal forms
  • Intellectual calibre and confidence to conduct complex discussions with civilian and service customers and suppliers
  • Commercial awareness sufficient to support discussions with customers and suppliers
  • Experience in complex systems integration projects, involving IT systems
  • Technical Management of subcontractors
  • Systems Engineering and understanding of the principles behind each of the main processes
  • Technical Team Management including the planning of work packages, allocation to team members and reporting
  • Technical Team Leadership including providing technical direction to team members

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Contributory Pension Scheme
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
  • Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
  • Flexi-Time Working

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Hard Skills & Tools
systems integrationtechnical documentationengineering practicesproject managementtechnical leadershipwork package planningresource allocationbaseline documentationengineering processestechnical assurance
Soft Skills
verbal communicationwritten communicationteam collaborationarticulation of technical conceptsintellectual calibreconfidence in discussionscommercial awarenesstechnical directionmentorshipleadership