Job Description

Senior Systems Engineer
6 Month Contract
Location: Home / Farnborough (3 days onsite)
Rate: £700 - £750 per day (Inside IR35)

Skills: Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, Systems Architecture, MBSE, SysML

We are looking to recruit an SC Cleared Senior Systems Engineer for a leading technology consultancy on an initial 6 month contract.

This is a senior, technically focused Systems Engineering position with responsibility for defining and applying appropriate systems engineering approaches across a significant project. You will work closely with technical leads, project managers and customer stakeholders, while also providing guidance and direction to more junior Systems Engineers.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the application of Systems Engineering principles across complex technical projects.
• Define appropriate Systems Engineering processes, methods and deliverables.
• Elicit, analyse and manage stakeholder and system requirements.
• Support system architecture, system design and requirements engineering activities.
• Determine appropriate modelling and analysis approaches.
• Produce and assure technical documentation, engineering plans, specifications and design outputs.
• Provide technical leadership to other Systems Engineers and review engineering deliverables.
• Work closely with senior technical, programme and customer stakeholders.
• Ensure designs and engineering activities meet relevant regulatory, safety, security and technical standards.
• Identify technical risks and issues and develop appropriate mitigation approaches.
• Support systems engineering management across the wider project lifecycle.

Skills & experience

• 7–10+ years’ experience within Systems Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
• Strong understanding of Systems Engineering lifecycle processes and methodologies.
• Experience across areas such as requirements engineering, system design, modelling, verification, validation or systems engineering management.
• Strong understanding of stakeholder requirements, system requirements, specifications and system design documentation.
• Experience working on medium-to-large scale complex engineering programmes.
• Ability to define appropriate Systems Engineering approaches rather than simply following established processes.
• Strong technical documentation, stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience providing technical leadership or mentoring junior engineers.
• Understanding of engineering assurance, safety, security, cost and schedule considerations.
• Previous experience within Defence, Government or another highly regulated engineering environment.
• Maritime domain knowledge would be highly advantageous.
• Degree-level qualification or equivalent engineering experience.
• CEng or equivalent professional standing is highly desirable.