Senior Computer Systems Engineer in Farnborough

Location: Farnborough or Whiteley, with flexibility to work from home dependent 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. Using your experience in Systems Engineering, you will be responsible for working with customers and suppliers to execute Systems Engineering activities across the full lifecycle, including area with focus on Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). We are seeking an experienced and skilled Systems Engineer with multi-domain expertise, an understanding of business strategy, and experience with enterprise architecture frameworks, including DoDAF, MODAF, and TOGAF. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining complex systems that align with our business objectives while adhering to industry-standard architecture frameworks. The ideal candidate will understand both technical and strategic aspects, ensuring that system solutions meet technical requirements and support and drive business goals within structured architecture frameworks.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working with operational stakeholders, technology suppliers and architects to refine system and sub-system requirements and acceptance criteria
• Modelling of functional and non-functional requirements and scenarios using MBSE and architectural framework approaches
• Modelling operational, business and system designs & 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 as well as compliance criteria for the system, items, components, hardware and software
• Develop functions, systems, items and components to industry security and safety standards, and others as appropriate
• Develop and 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 (e.g. DO160) as appropriate
• Interface Control Documents (ICDs) / Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
• Allocation of requirements to lower-level components, conducting technical derivation analysis as required
• Managing compliance assessments at system and lower levels
• Maintaining the high-level design and overseeing development of lower-level designs
• Producing detailed engineering artefacts such as High-Level and Low-Level Designs, Compliance Reports
• Preparing for and delivering milestone technical reviews and the associated work product deliverables
• Technically engage with the supply chain
• Work with the systems architects, mechanical systems engineers and system simulation engineers to ensure that the system requirements are achieved
• Anticipate and manage transversal technical and business issues, arbitrate between solutions considering all aspects: sustainability, reusability, optimisation, opportunity, schedule, quality, cost, risks, safety and performance
• Generate technical reports and presentations, with the ability to present information in a clear and organized manner
• Develop specification documents and procedures for new products before launched into manufacturing
• Ensure specification and ensure the production, compliance and test of the components, items and systems
• Develop validation test methods and protocols. Use Aerospace best practices
• Participate in in-depth analysis of test data
• Ensure configuration management is in place for the systems and all its components from requirement through to operation
• Provide general technical feedback on the 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
• Managing the technical backlog and the content of associated releases

What does Leidos need from me?

• Extensive experience in the defence, security or other safety and security critical information systems sectors
• Strong experience with systems modelling and in associated 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 both text based and model based approaches
• Success in working within mission-critical systems integration programmes
• Ability to work with several stakeholders and suppliers, working across organisational boundaries as appropriate
• Experience of developing system behavioural diagrams, modelling interfaces and developing models to encapsulate functional & non-functional requirements and designs
• Demonstrable successes within the System Engineering environment
• Excellent customer facing skills, including being able to ingest large volumes of requirements and information developing clear understanding of customer hot buttons and needs
• Understanding designing / delivering systems in a public cloud environment

Desired Attributes:

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

Desirable Experience:

• Logical development including the specification and validation of safety critical software
• Proficiency in RBE tools, e.g. DOORS
• Experience in data management role
• Proficiency in Multi-domain Modelling/Simulation packages, e.g. MATLAB, Simulink, Simscape, Amesim or other

Clearance Requirements:

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

What we do for you:

At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance. We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

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

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & EUROPE – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science. Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail.