Senior Systems Engineer

Location: Farnborough or Whiteley, with flexibility to work from home depending on business demands.

Salary: £61,500 - £78,800

The Role

As a Senior Systems Engineer on a critical national infrastructure programme, you will have a full understanding of the principles of systems engineering and prior experience in a similar role accepting and integrating deliveries from suppliers.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with operational stakeholders, technology suppliers and architects to refine system and sub‑system requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Model functional and non‑functional requirements and scenarios using MBSE and architectural framework approaches.
• Model operational, business and system designs and behaviours within architectural views.
• Define and develop requirements, turn them into a feasible solution by proposing an architecture, system and component definition.
• Develop component and system specifications, descriptions and compliance criteria for the system, items, components, hardware and software.
• Ensure compliance with industry security and safety standards and other applicable standards.
• Manage requirements at all levels from system, item, components down to hardware and software level.
• Define validation plans and ensure compliance through analysis, simulation and/or test.
• Produce Interface Control Documents (ICDs), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and allocation of requirements to lower‑level components.
• Conduct technical derivation analysis as required.
• Maintain high‑level design and oversee development of lower‑level designs.
• Produce detailed engineering artefacts including high‑level and low‑level designs, compliance reports.
• Prepare for and deliver milestone technical reviews and associated work product deliverables.
• Technically engage with the supply chain.
• Work with systems architects, mechanical systems engineers and system simulation engineers to ensure requirements are achieved.
• Anticipate and manage transversal technical and business issues, and arbitrate between solutions considering sustainability, reusability, optimisation, opportunity, schedule, quality, cost, risks, safety and performance.
• Generate technical reports and presentations, present information in a clear and organized manner.
• Develop specification documents and procedures for new products before launch into manufacturing.
• Ensure specification, production, compliance and testing of components, items and systems.
• Develop validation test methods and protocols using Aerospace best practices.
• Participate in in‑depth analysis of test data.
• Ensure configuration management is in place from requirement through to operation.
• Provide general technical feedback on design and development of mechanical and electrical sub‑systems.
• Facilitate technical review sessions.
• Deliver project health status updates.
• Engage with clients, suppliers, and regulatory bodies to formulate engineering solutions.
• Recognize technical risks and devise mitigation strategies.
• Manage the technical backlog and the content of associated releases.

Qualifications Required

• Extensive experience in defence, security or other safety and security critical information systems sectors.
• Strong experience with systems modelling and MBSE tools (e.g. NoMagic Cameo), architectural frameworks (e.g. TOGAF) and languages (e.g. SysML).
• Strong knowledge of requirements and user scenario development in text‑based and model‑based approaches.
• Success working within mission‑critical systems integration programmes.
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders and suppliers, across organisational boundaries.
• Experience developing system behavioural diagrams, modelling interfaces, and using models to encapsulate functional and non‑functional requirements and designs.
• Demonstrable successes within the Systems Engineering environment.
• Excellent customer‑facing skills and ability to ingest large volumes of requirements and information.
• Understanding of designing and delivering systems in a public cloud environment.

Desired Attributes

• Positive mindset.
• Capacity to thrive in a multicultural setting.
• Excellent interpersonal abilities.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• Ability to adhere to deadlines.

Desirable Skills

• Experience in logical development, including specification and validation of safety‑critical software.
• Proficiency in RBE tools, e.g. DOORS.
• Experience in data management roles.
• Proficiency in multi‑domain modelling/simulation packages such as MATLAB, Simulink, Simscape, Amesim or others.

Clearance Requirements

The successful applicant will be required to hold and maintain UK Security Clearance.

Benefits

• Contributory Pension Scheme.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays).
• Access to Flexible benefits (life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays, cycle to work scheme).
• Flexi‑Time Working.

EEO Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.