Senior Software Acceptance and Delivery Lead

Job Title: Senior Software Acceptance & Delivery Lead

Location: New Malden. 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 (depending on skills and experience)

What you’ll be doing:

• Perform Software Release planning and ensuring it stays up to date throughout the release
• Create and manage software & system acceptance & delivery plans and the supporting documentation
• Make engineering decisions within own sphere of responsibility and delegated authority
• Managing and overseeing multiple diverse functional teams and stakeholders on multiple projects, simultaneously, throughout the engineering lifecycle
• Act as the point of contact with customers and/or suppliers in assigned areas on engineering matters, to resolve relatively complex problems and to maintain awareness in both parties of priorities and objectives
• Perform budget management and provide end of month reporting for multiple projects.

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Ability to operate in a large, complex multi-project environment with experience of Configuration Management, problem solving and technical knowledge of the domain along with the knowledge of Naval Combat System Products (desirable)
• Understanding towards System Design Specifications and technical documentation and ability to lead Integration, Performance & System Testing and Acceptance and Delivery Management
• A good understanding of LCM, Engineering Lifecycle and systems engineering methodologies and practices and tools with ability to perform Release planning from beginning to the end of the projects.
• Flexibility in response to changes in tasking & priorities while able to communicate to management, peers and other stakeholders
• Proficient in managing budget and performing end of month reporting

Engineers at all levels should possess an academic qualification in Engineering or other related STEM subjects as well as specific (either academic or professional) qualifications and become recognised as Incorporated or Chartered Engineers through an appropriate recognised professional institution.

Engineers are encouraged, and will be supported, to achieve the relevant accreditation.

Preference will be given to candidates who are already professionally registered.

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Capability Development Insertion Group:

As a Software Acceptance and Delivery Lead in CDIG team, you will be required to perform various engineering activities, which may include observations/issues & configuration management, software release planning, budget management (including end of month reporting), target environment management, formal qualification & acceptance testing management and stakeholder engagement & collaboration.

Supporting various engineering activities to lead and ensure the delivery of engineering work and services to external and internal customers for multiple platforms under the supervision of the CDIG Engineering Manager.

CDIG, as it indicates, is responsible for any new capability insertion into the CMS-1 (as a product and INTeACT going forward) for example, new radars, unmanned Heli – some very recent examples. We start from bidding phase and take it through till disposal stage i.e. bid, estimate, contract award, SRR, PDR, CDR, development, implementation, integration, testing, acceptance, delivery, support, after support disposal.

An example is NRP – Naval Radar Replacement project, which is now coming to an end; we carried out from the beginning, few years ago.

So, we have multiple projects at different stages, and we work on them through out.

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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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 etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

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: 22nd February 2026. Interviews will take place w/c 2nd 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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