Systems Engineer

Role Summary

As a Senior Systems Engineer within you will work with our customer and industry partners on a programme of national importance to support and improve UK ATM infrastructure.

You will be given the opportunity to grow and take on responsibility from day one in a challenging and rewarding customer-facing environment.

Key Responsibilities

• This is a customer focussed role, so you will need to explore and understand our customer's domain, needs and programme, including legacy systems, systems context and target value
• You will be a proactive senior systems engineering lead with responsibility for understanding and specifying aspects of the problem and solution.
• Your responsibilities include defining and planning the systems engineering needed to derive definitive specifications from high level requirements, and leading a small, multi-disciplined team of systems engineers, and domain and engineering specialists to deliver this.
• Your work will include:
• Being the engineering point of contact for aspects of the problem and solution
• Engaging with stakeholders and specialists at a range of organisational levels
• Managing team delivery to quality, schedule and budget
• Hands-on systems engineering;
• Analysing and modelling large data sets, documents and legacy systems, with the help of AI LLM assistants
• Specifying solutions and establishing traceability using our (ISO 15288 aligned) requirements and MBSE frameworks
• You will work in a multi-disciplinary team to specify and integrate complex safety-critical systems. This will require you to understand and evaluate ATM operational processes and use-cases, and non-functional system properties such as safety, security, reliability, maintainability, and usability
• In addition to your customer-focussed role, you will contribute to Engineering by developing strong client relationships and domain knowledge, using collaborative ways of working and mentoring team members, contributing to capability development

Mandatory Skills & Experience

• Engineering or science degree, with substantial experience (10+ years) delivering high-integrity systems engineering projects in a regulated industry.
• Strong knowledge of relevant industry standards and systems engineering processes across the full lifecycle, including requirements management, system specification, verification & validation and systems integration.
• Experience in customer-facing, systems engineering lead roles to deliver safety-critical systems
• Demonstrated ability to build strong customer relationships, with proven stakeholder management and experience leading teams to deliver high-value outcomes
• Hands-on experience in stakeholder management, requirements management, authoring natural language specifications, the use of MBSE (SysML/UML) and systems integration.
• Ability to work effectively and autonomously in collaborative, multi-disciplinary environments with strong communication, influencing, and presentation skills

Desirable

• Experience in Air Traffic Management systems
• Proficiency with deploying and using Sparx Enterprise Architect
• Experience using SysML or UML
• Professional Systems Engineering certification (e.g. INCOSE CSEP/ESEP), or a clear desire to work towards it.
• Chartered Engineer status, or active progress toward achieving chartership.