Missile Test Lead Architect

We are expanding our team and seeking skilled Missile Test Lead Architects. Salary is approximately £64,000, depending on experience. The role requires dynamic hybrid working, typically 2-3 days per week on-site. Successful candidates must be British citizens or dual UK nationals, and will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS).

What we can offer you

• Company bonus up to 21% of base salary
• Pension: maximum total contribution up to 14%
• Flexible working arrangements welcomed
• Enhanced parental leave up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave; enhancements for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments available
• Facilities: subsidised meals, free car parking and other site benefits
• Healthcare Cash Plan to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing

Responsibilities

• Oversee test design considerations and ensure their implementation across project development.
• Specify missile level pass-out tests, in-service tests, and BIT routines.
• Collaborate with manufacturing and design teams to ensure comprehensive testability of the product and address test coverage gaps efficiently.
• Lead a team of Test Architects as part of the Missile Design team.
• Support the department head and provide functional leadership as a senior member of the TTA department.
• Take ownership of missile test equipment specification and delivery.
• Ensure that product testability is built into the design.
• Generate and manage compliance with lower-level test requirements for design teams, including test access needs, BIT coverage/timings, and factory test functionality.
• Analyse and model the system to determine test coverage and generate diagnostic instructions.
• Work closely with the Chief Design Engineer to make cost vs test coverage trade‑offs.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in test equipment design, product testability or electrical/electronic engineering.
• Proficiency in at least one of the following areas: digital electronics and microprocessor systems, analogue electronics, electronics testing, or test equipment design.
• Experience in people leadership and influencing.
• Good understanding of gathering requirements, overseeing projects, creating plans, and managing relationships with key customers.

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