Senior Systems Engineer in Maidenhead

Join the team redefining defence technology. From engineering systems that save lives to leading programmes that change the battlefield—find your place in the future of defence.

Our Cyber business unit is at the forefront of pioneering advanced cryptographic and key management solutions, facilitating the confidential exchange of vital information for customers operating at both tactical and strategic echelons. Join our team and participate in the innovation that ensures the highest security and trust worldwide.

The Ultra Engineering function manages a portfolio of specialist capabilities, generating highly differentiated solutions and products by applying electronic, mechanical, and software technologies in demanding and critical environments to meet customer needs.

To be responsible for the implementation of ISO 15288 Systems Engineering practice across the Systems Engineering life cycle, for projects within Ultra Cyber. The Systems Engineering approach ensures stakeholders' needs and requirements are quantified, analysed, decomposed and derived, architectures formed and realisation of the high and low level designs. SE also ensures a multi/inter-discipline approach and assures the cross discipline solution products support a compliant system and offers a means to gain stakeholder acceptance.

Key responsibilities:

• Report to and support the Systems discipline lead, own the Systems assigned work packages and tasking, to deliver obligations and commitments on time and budget.
• Contribute towards the development of technical solutions, for large and complex engineering problems, following Systems Engineering processes, to ensure customer requirements are satisfied.
• Develop Systems Engineering artefacts, as required, across the product development lifecycle, to result in a positive project outcome.
• Responsible for contributing towards the design, development and delivery of the Systems Engineering artefacts for one or more projects to ensure high quality deliverables.
• Provide technical direction and exert technical influence across one or more project work packages, such that the optimal approach, architecture, design, and implementation are selected.
• Work closely with the system, hardware, firmware and software architects to ensure consistency, design for modularity and re‑use, and technical excellence.
• Plan, co-ordinate and present at internal and external design reviews, to senior management and customers, to ensure a successful event.
• Actively contribute to and/or lead defined aspects of the project to achieve optimal balance between requirements, schedule and cost.
• Manage customers and external suppliers to ensure compliance with agreed processes and achievement of project objectives.
• Contribute towards and review technical proposals, and provide accurate estimates for the associated effort, costs and risks, for bids and proposals, leading to contract awards.
• Work closely with discipline lead/s, project management and engineering project leads to create proposals that drive down project costs and increase margin.
• Estimate time and effort required for systems activities and deliver to these time and effort estimates to ensure cost and schedule adherence.
• Review and sign off significant technical documents; frequently support chairs in technical reviews for significant deliverables.
• Explain technically complex concepts clearly to less technical/involved parties.
• Manage security of information as defined in the Security manual to ensure compliance with Government regulations.
• Support and offer value add improvements to the Systems discipline to grow the overall capability as a whole.
• Develop to achieve a specific Subject Matter Expertise, recognised as the company expert, in a specific subject matter, such as a specific practice, tool, product type or technical area.

Role requirements:

Essential: Has or gains and then maintains, SC security clearance.

Desirable: Willing and eligible to obtain, and maintain, DV security clearance.

Qualifications / skills required:

Essential: Degree or equivalent qualification in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or have suitable Defence/Aerospace industry experience. Significant experience and a full understanding of Systems Engineering, the V-Model and associated processes/lifecycles. Significant experience of developing high quality requirements and establishing a fully compliant systems design. Experience in writing high quality technical documentation and the formal technical review of such material. Substantial knowledge of System Engineering practices, methodologies, processes, techniques and technology trends. Experience of DOORS, UML, SEBoK, Enterprise Architect and SysML. Experience of hands‑on development of either hardware, software or firmware development, particularly in an embedded environment.

Desirable: INCOSE recognition ASEP or CSEP. Technical management experience of a team of systems engineers. Experience working as a technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) and developing new areas of expertise as and when required.

Benefits:

• Participation in an Annual Bonus Scheme.
• Private Medical Cover.
• 25 days’ holiday (plus Bank Holidays) with the option to buy an extra 5 days.
• Pension Contribution.
• 4 x Life Assurance Cover.
• Flexible working hours with opportunity for a 1pm finish on a Friday.
• Flexible benefits including cycle to work scheme, will writing and more.
• Security Clearance Allowance – where relevant and subject to you holding the required security clearance.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Statement:

At Ultra I&C, we are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusivity. Underpinned by our values, behaviours, and policies, we want you to feel empowered to be the best version of yourself. We also believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures will increase our diversity of thinking, ensuring we successfully deliver to our customers. We, therefore, do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also support requests for flexible working arrangements wherever possible.

Ultra specialises in providing application-engineered bespoke solutions. We focus on our customers’ mission critical and intelligent systems in the defence, security, critical detection, & control markets. Our capabilities and technologies can be found on many of the world’s long-term military programmes. We employ over 4,500 employees across the globe and are listed on the London Stock Exchange.