# Principal Post-Design Support Engineer

Job Description: Your Impact Are you ready to lead the post-design support of a critical national capability? As the Principal Post-Design Support Engineer, you will be accountable for the effective sustainment, improvement and technical-support performance of a complex operational capability once solutions enter service. You will provide leadership across a multidisciplinary PDS team and coordinate engineering, service, commercial, supply-chain and programme stakeholders. You will shape the forward PDS plan, priorities and performance framework, including technology refresh, obsolescence, resilience, capability and continuous-improvement requirements; set support priorities and controls within the applicable governance; and ensure that operational outcomes are delivered to time, cost, quality and contractual expectations. The role is a principal interface between Leonardo, Border Force and relevant authorities. You will represent Leonardo in performance, risk, change and technical-support forums, ensuring that customer and end-user needs are understood, balanced and translated into deliverable priorities. What you will do as a Principal Post-Design Support Engineer Own the end-to-

- **Id**: 3786455
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/leonardo-principal-post-design-support-engineer>
- **Role**: Support
- **Role family**: Support
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T19:27:38Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 11415
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible schedule, Gym membership, Home office, Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: C4ISR, Defense Manufacturing, Aircraft Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 54177
- **Name**: Leonardo
- **Domain**: leonardo.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/leonardo-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 76
- **Open postings**: 201
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.94
- **Repost share**: 0.02
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 27
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Technologies

- **Service Desk** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T03:51:31Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Secondment Worker, Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker); Route: Global Business Mobility: Secondment Worker; Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.628
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:9, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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