Senior Systems Engineer in Hampshire

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

Salary: £61,500 – £78,800.

Clearance Requirements: Must hold and maintain UK Security Clearance.

The Role: As a Senior Systems Engineer on a critical national infrastructure programme you will have a full understanding of systems engineering principles and prior experience in a similar role integrating deliveries from suppliers. You will work with customers and suppliers to execute Systems Engineering activities across the full lifecycle, including focus on Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and architecture frameworks such as DoDAF, MODAF, and TOGAF. You will design, implement, and maintain complex systems that align with business objectives while adhering to industry-standard architecture frameworks.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with stakeholders, 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, turning them into feasible solutions by proposing architecture, system and component definitions.
• Develop component and system specifications and compliance criteria for system items, hardware and software.
• Ensure systems, items and components meet industry security and safety standards.
• Manage requirements at all levels from system down to hardware and software.
• Define validation plans and ensure compliance through analysis, simulation and/or test (e.g. DO160).
• Maintain interface control documents and application programming interfaces.
• Allocate requirements to lower-level components, conducting technical derivation analysis as needed.
• Manage compliance assessments at system and lower levels.
• Maintain high-level designs and oversee development of lower-level designs.
• Produce detailed engineering artefacts such as high-level and low-level designs, compliance reports, and milestone technical reviews.
• Engage technically with the supply chain and coordinate with systems architects and simulation engineers.
• Anticipate and manage technical and business issues, arbitrate between solutions considering sustainability, reusability, optimisation, schedule, quality, cost, risks, safety and performance.
• Generate technical reports and presentations.
• Develop specification documents and procedures before launch into manufacturing.
• Ensure 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 technical feedback on design and development of mechanical and electrical sub-systems.
• Facilitate technical review sessions and deliver project health status updates.
• Engage with clients, suppliers, and regulatory bodies to formulate engineering solutions.
• Identify technical risks and devise mitigation strategies.
• Manage the technical backlog and content of associated releases.

Qualifications:

• 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 both 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 behaviour diagrams, modelling interfaces and encapsulating functional.