Senior Systems Engineer

Summary: The Senior Systems Engineer role involves leading the design, development, and integration of complex systems within the defence sector, focusing on model-based systems engineering. The position requires ensuring compliance and efficiency in system development while collaborating with various stakeholders. This contract role is deemed inside IR35 and is expected to last a minimum of 18 months. Candidates should have significant experience in systems engineering, particularly in regulated environments such as defence or nuclear industries.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, and integration of complex systems in the defence sector.
• Deliver updated verification strategies covering all environment categories and technical disciplines.
• Generate verification strategies through stakeholder engagement, ensuring they are logic linked and captured using Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).
• Support model-based practices for requirements, interfaces, trade studies, interdisciplinary integration, and analysis.
• Optimize deployment and reporting to continuously improve the MBSE model.
• Support model development, maturity, and integration with other MBSE tools and models.
• Prepare reporting metrics to measure performance and identify areas for improvement.
• Engage with various stakeholders, including business leaders and subject matter experts.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust engineering solutions that meet client and regulatory requirements.
• Provide technical expertise in hardware/software integration for seamless operation across systems.
• Develop and maintain systems architecture for complex projects, ensuring alignment with specifications.
• Contribute to the full systems engineering lifecycle from concept to testing, deployment, and support.
• Support system validation and verification processes to ensure compliance with industry standards.

Key Skills:

• Active SC security clearance with eligibility for DV clearance.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in complex systems engineering, focusing on hardware/software integration or systems architecture.
• At least 3 years of exposure to the defence or nuclear industries.
• Strong understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle and experience in model-based systems engineering or DOORS.
• Ability to collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams, providing clear guidance and technical leadership.
• Experience working within security clearance environments or ability to obtain clearance.
• Proficiency in relevant engineering tools and software for systems analysis, design, and simulation.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Reading

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: IT