Job Title: Principal Digital Engineer
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Birchwood, Warrington + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Lead digital engineering that transforms the future of defence infrastructure
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Principal Digital Engineer at our Babcock Technology Centre or Birchwood, Warrington Sites.
The role
As a Principal Digital Engineer, you’ll take a senior leadership position at the forefront of digital transformation within one of the UK’s most critical engineering environments. You’ll drive the digital engineering strategy across high‑profile Naval Nuclear programmes, supporting the evolution of information management, Building Information Modelling (BIM) and project technology capabilities that underpin complex defence and infrastructure delivery.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the chance to shape how digital innovation is implemented across major engineering, construction and commissioning projects, ensuring best practice, technical excellence and future‑focused digital solutions. You’ll gain exposure across multidisciplinary teams and high‑value programmes, building deep technical and leadership experience that will fuel your long‑term career development.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 2 days in the office/onsite.
Essential experience of the Principal Digital Engineer
Qualifications for the Principal Digital Engineer
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
We are a disability confident committed employer.
Principal Digital Engineer • Warrington, GB
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