Lead Systems Engineer

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do. L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defence tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Operating at 11 sites in the United Kingdom, L3Harris supports Britain's mission to secure and strengthen the country by delivering sovereign innovation across the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains. L3Harris in Barrow-In-Furness are part of our Maritime UK business – a leading global supplier of integrated marine control systems and simulation products for warships, submarines and high-end commercial marine vessels worldwide. Our Maritime UK business has four UK locations and together we are powering the Royal Navy’s adoption of autonomous surface vehicle technology.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• Hybrid working where possible, three days onsite per week
• Half day finish on a Friday
• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
• Private medical insurance with optional family cover
• Pension scheme of up to 8% employer contribution
• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
• Group income protection
• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover, cycle to work scheme, travel insurance and electric car scheme
• Employee Family Assistance Program providing mental health and wellbeing support
• Professional membership reimbursement (discretionary)

What the role will involve:

This role will support and technically lead the Astute Integrated Platform Management System (IPMS) programme.

Responsibilities:

• Defining and executing the engineering strategy to deliver IPMS capability to the Astute platform in compliance with established business processes and procedures.
• Lead a small cross-functional engineering team to deliver programme objectives across cost, quality, and schedule performance.
• Collaborate closely with Programme and Project Managers to identify and develop new opportunities, define technical scope, and support cost estimation and delivery planning.
• Report programme progress to the business through the use of performance metrics, proactively highlighting risks, issues, and concerns.
• Serve as the primary customer point of contact for all engineering and technical matters, ensuring effective communication and resolution of issues throughout the programme lifecycle.

What you’ll bring:

• Minimum of 7 years prior relevant experience technically leading defence programmes.
• Excellent understanding of systems concepts, context, boundaries, interfaces, system hierarchy and the principles of system partitioning in order to help manage complexity.
• Excellent planning communications and coordination skills with demonstrable experience of leading programme engineering teams.
• Excellent IT skills (Experience with DOORS is essential; System Architect or Rhapsody would be beneficial).
• Experience of leading the technical aspects of a bid.
• Understands the characteristics of good quality requirements, elicitation methods and tools and good understanding of requirements engineering within Defence Projects.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience of working on submarine programmes.
• Preferably have a Software Engineering background.
• Preferably have experience of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).
• Knowledge of MODAF and DODAF architectural frameworks.
• To “fill gaps’ in the engineering team by quickly understanding wider engineering areas (outside of specialism) to support design and understand engineering strategies - EMC, Safety, ILS, etc.

Important to know:

Due to the nature of our work many of our roles require a UK nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks. L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination and offers equal opportunities for all. Applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.