Digital Capability Planning Lead

Job Title:Digital Capability Planning Lead

• Location: Warton. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role
• Referral Bonus: £1,000
• Grade: F
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• There is the exciting opportunity to join the FalconWorks team as a Digital Capability Planning Lead. The role delivers the strategic interface between the FalconWorks business and digital & infrastructure enablement.
• You will work with teams that have a strong emphasis on cloud and cybersecurity to embed secure by design in everything we deliver.
• This role is responsible for assessing and planning the most effective business, engineering and manufacturing digital and infrastructure capabilities that support long-term business goals, ensuring alignment with the business strategy and governance.
• The ideal candidate brings a blend of technical insight, strategic planning, and stakeholder engagement to drive business transformation

Core duties

• Support digital and infrastructure capability assessments across the domains of business and engineering
• Support the development and maintain capability roadmaps aligned with business goals
• Translate business strategies into capability requirements, ensuring alignment with cloud modernisation and cybersecurity initiatives
• Work with digital and infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders to drive integrated capability planning
• Advise portfolio planning efforts by identifying priority capability investments
• Support risk assessments and compliance initiatives by mapping capabilities to business requirements
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder interviews to gather & validate capability needs and maturity levels
• Use capability modelling tools and frameworks to document and communicate planning outputs
• Track industry trends translating them into actionable insights for capability evolution

Essential Skills

• Bachelor’s degree Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
• Experience in enterprise planning, or transformation, including experience of working with cloud and cyber teams in a business and engineering systems environment
• Experienced in working in a complex engineering/manufacturing organisation and the ability to interpret and explain data to multiple internal and external stakeholders
• Experience in Enterprise modelling tools would be preferable
• Business architecture background would be good to have

The Falconworks Digital Capability Planning Team

FalconWorks® is our centre for advanced research and technology development in the Air Sector. Through FalconWorks, we push technology forward. We’ve grown our portfolio of uncrewed air systems capabilities through new collaborations and we act as a docking port for the wider Air sector to turn ideas into innovation.

We scan horizons to identify capabilities for today and beyond, enabling our customers to achieve and maintain competitive advantage. FalconWorks® is our centre for advanced research and technology development in the Air Sector. Through FalconWorks, we scan horizons to identify capabilities that accelerate possibilities, enabling our customers to achieve and maintain competitive advantage.

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.

*We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.

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 applicantsmust as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicantsmust 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: 24th November 2026

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