At a Glance
- Tasks: Shape integrated solutions for complex problems in Defence and Security.
- Company: Bristol-based consultancy with a focus on Defence and Security.
- Benefits: Permanent, full-time role with hybrid working and opportunities for travel.
- Other info: Join a dynamic team with opportunities for career growth and thought leadership.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by collaborating with clients to deliver effective solutions.
- Qualifications: Experience in Defence or regulated environments and strong systems thinking skills.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
Location: South-West (Hybrid), with occasional UK travel
Contract: Permanent, Full-Time
Security Clearance: Eligible for UK SC (existing clearance preferred)
Raptor is a Bristol-based consultancy working across business, operations, and technology within Defence and Security. We act as an independent trusted partner to our clients, embedding within their teams to help shape complex capabilities and support confident, evidence-based decisions. Our work connects strategy to delivery. We ensure solutions are not only technically sound, but also operationally effective and capable of delivering real-world outcomes across mission and enterprise environments.
The Role
We are looking for Consultant Systems Engineers who are comfortable operating across business, operational, and technical domains to shape integrated solutions to complex problems. This is not a traditional systems engineering role. You will work closely with clients to understand challenges, design operating models and services, and translate these into coherent, implementable solutions across people, process, data, and technology. You will typically work embedded within client teams, collaborating with multidisciplinary stakeholders to define problems, explore options and support delivery.
Grade Expectations
- Senior Consultant
- Strong practitioner delivering high-quality outputs within client teams
- Leads workstreams and supports engagements
- Builds trusted relationships with stakeholders
- Principal Consultant
- Leads client engagements and shapes problem definition
- Owns senior client relationships and acts as a trusted advisor
- Drives business development, proposal writing, and growth
- Contributes to Raptor’s capability development and thought leadership
What You’ll Do
- Shape and define solutions across business and technical domains
- Translate stakeholder needs into integrated system and service designs
- Facilitate workshops and stakeholder engagement to define problems and solutions
- Apply systems thinking to understand interdependencies across complex capabilities
- Support architectural thinking, options analysis, and decision-making
- Build trusted relationships with clients and suppliers, acting as a credible advisor
- Contribute to thought leadership and the development of our consulting capability
Typical outputs may include:
- Operating model designs, process maps, and workflows
- Capability models (logical, operational, service)
- Requirements sets and supporting artefacts
- Workshop outputs and stakeholder maps
- Decision support packs and options analyses
What You’ll Bring
- Essential
- Experience working in Defence, Security, Government or highly regulated environments
- Strong systems thinking, applying structured approaches to complex problems across people, process, and technology
- Ability to translate business needs into end-to-end, implementable solutions
- Experience in applying systems engineering approaches (e.g. requirements, architecture, lifecycle thinking)
- Experience working across strategy, design, and delivery environments
- Strong communication skills, including facilitating workshops and influencing decision-makers
- Degree in STEM or a related discipline
- Eligible for UK SC security clearance
- Desirable
- Experience in business analysis and stakeholder engagement
- Experience with systems engineering or architecture frameworks and tools (e.g. MBSE, DOORS, Sparx, Cameo)
- Experience developing operating models or organisational designs
- Experience in agile or iterative delivery environments
- Experience working in client-side or advisory roles within MOD, DE
Contact Details:
Raptor Consultancy Services Limited Recruitment Team
