National Security Consulting Career Opportunities (eDV Cleared)

You could help customers clarify a strategic challenge, understand business and user needs, examine technical or security considerations, or translate complex evidence into practical recommendations. Depending on your experience and assignment, you may support work from initial analysis and business justification through to design, planning, implementation and adoption.

You will work alongside customers and multidisciplinary teams, building your expertise while contributing to work with a clear National Security purpose.

National Security in Digital Intelligence

Digital Intelligence brings together consulting, technology, cyber, data, engineering and operational expertise to support important National Security outcomes.

Our consultants help customers understand complex situations, make informed decisions and deliver sustainable change. This can mean bringing structure to an emerging problem, connecting operational and technical perspectives, examining security implications or helping an organisation move from strategy to implementation.

The work can involve ambiguity, competing priorities and incomplete information. You will be supported by colleagues from different professional backgrounds who can test your thinking, contribute specialist knowledge and help the team reach a well-evidenced outcome.

You will have the opportunity to build consulting breadth while developing specialist expertise relevant to your profession and career goals.

Your SubAccount

Consulting opportunities exist across all four National Security SubAccounts. Each addresses a different area of the mission and needs people who can understand complex environments, bring together different perspectives and turn evidence into effective action.

Your experience, professional discipline and the needs of the available work will help determine the most appropriate SubAccount.

Core Machine

Core Machine focuses on the underlying digital capabilities, platforms and services that enable wider National Security outcomes.

Consultants may help customers understand business and user needs, define requirements, examine existing services, evaluate options or plan organisational and technical change. Assignments may involve connecting strategic objectives with the processes, operating models and capabilities needed to achieve them.

Business Consultants and Business Analysts could help clarify outcomes, map processes, define requirements and develop business cases. Technical Consultants could help connect organisational needs with technical options and delivery considerations. Security Consultants could help ensure that relevant risks and security requirements are considered as capabilities develop.

This environment may suit you if you are interested in how strong digital foundations enable complex organisations and mission teams to operate effectively.

Cyber Engineering

Cyber Engineering brings together cyber and engineering expertise to help customers understand and address evolving security challenges.

Consultants help connect operational priorities, organisational needs, security considerations and technical delivery. Work may include understanding a cyber-related problem, analysing requirements, assessing risks, supporting transformation or helping stakeholders make evidence-based decisions in technically complex environments.

Business Consultants and Business Analysts could examine the organisational implications of cyber change, define needs and support implementation. Technical Consultants could help customers assess technical options, dependencies and delivery approaches. Security Consultants could contribute specialist analysis and advice to help teams understand and manage security risks.

Deep cyber expertise will be important for some opportunities, but it will not be essential for every consulting role. Requirements will reflect the specific assignment and advertised grade.

Emergent Mission & Tech

Emergent Mission & Tech considers developing mission needs and how new or evolving technologies could help address them.

Consulting assignments may begin with an emerging problem rather than a fixed requirement. You could help identify the outcome that matters, investigate user and organisational needs, test assumptions, evaluate options or turn an early concept into an actionable strategy.

Business Consultants and Business Analysts could structure the problem, gather evidence and develop requirements or investment cases. Technical Consultants could help assess the feasibility, implications and potential value of different technologies. Security Consultants could help teams consider risks and security requirements while ideas are still being explored and shaped.

This environment may suit people who are comfortable working with uncertainty, adapting their approach as evidence develops and bringing together business, operational, technical and security perspectives.

Mission Operations

Mission Operations focuses on the people, processes, services and capabilities that support effective operational outcomes.

Consultants may help customers understand how work is currently performed, identify barriers and design practical improvements. Assignments could include service and process analysis, requirements definition, organisational change, implementation support or helping teams introduce new capabilities into an operational environment.

Business Consultants and Business Analysts could examine processes, user needs and operating models. Technical Consultants could connect operational requirements with technical possibilities and constraints. Security Consultants could help ensure that change is informed by an appropriate understanding of risk and security.

The emphasis is on making change workable for the people and teams who will use it, while remaining focused on the wider mission outcome.

What You Will Be Doing

Your responsibilities will depend on your consulting discipline, experience and assignment. You may be involved in:

Working with customers and colleagues to understand strategic, operational, business, technical or security challenges

Gathering and analysing information from stakeholders, users, documents, systems and existing processes

Defining problems, requirements, desired outcomes and measures of success

Mapping processes, services, capabilities, dependencies or stakeholder needs

Bringing together business, technical, operational and security perspectives

Developing strategies, options, recommendations and business cases supported by clear evidence

Examining organisational structures and operating models to identify opportunities for improvement

Evaluating technical approaches and explaining their organisational or operational implications

Identifying risks, assumptions, constraints and dependencies

Helping customers understand security considerations and make proportionate, evidence-based decisions

Planning and facilitating workshops, interviews and collaborative working sessions

Producing concise reports, briefings, presentations and decision-support materials

Supporting change from initial analysis through planning, implementation and adoption

Working with multidisciplinary teams that may include consultants, engineers, architects, cyber specialists, delivery professionals and operational subject-matter experts

Contributing to the Digital Intelligence consulting community by sharing knowledge, developing professional practice and supporting colleagues

At more senior grades, responsibilities may also include:

Shaping consulting assignments and agreeing appropriate approaches

Leading engagements, workstreams or multidisciplinary teams

Advising senior customer stakeholders

Managing consulting outcomes, risks and delivery commitments

We are interested in the capability you can demonstrate, rather than one prescribed professional background or career path.

You will need experience in consulting, business analysis, technical consulting, security consulting, business change or another relevant advisory discipline.

You should also be able to demonstrate that you can:

Understand complex problems and turn them into structured analysis

Gather information from different sources and identify the issues that matter

Adapt your approach when requirements, priorities or evidence change

Develop clear findings, options or recommendations supported by evidence

Explain complex information in a way that meets the needs of different audiences

Build constructive working relationships across organisational and professional boundaries

Offer objective advice while understanding customer priorities and constraints

Work independently and contribute effectively within a multidisciplinary team

You do not need to demonstrate every area listed above. Your skills will be assessed proportionately against the consulting discipline, assignment and grade under consideration.

Security Clearance

Due to the security requirements of this role, applicants must hold a current and active Enhanced Developed Vetting (eDV) clearance to be considered for this opportunity.

Inclusion and Recruitment

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 under-represented 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, such as dyslexia, autism or 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 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.