Senior Systems Engineer (Security cleared)
Essex HQ (3-4 days a week)
Up to £68 p/h outside IR35
Security clearance is essential
We are seeking an experienced Lead Systems Engineer to play a pivotal role in shaping, integrating, and delivering a complex, safety and performance critical system. Working at the heart of a multidisciplinary team, you will help define the technical direction across the full system lifecycle while ensuring robust integration across multiple sub-systems and suppliers
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About the role
You will work closely with the Project Chief Engineer to identify, analyse, and resolve technical issues across the system and its sub-systems, ensuring the integrity and coherence of the overall solution. In addition, you will deputise for the Project Chief Engineer when required, providing technical leadership and decision-making authority across the project.
You will lead the architecture function across the programme, ensuring the system architecture is developed, maintained, and documented throughout the lifecycle. A key part of your role will be driving effective system integration, supplier engagement, and technical governance
Key responsibilities
- Work closely with the Project Chief Engineer to identify and resolve technical issues across system and sub-system levels
- Lead the system architecture team and ensure architecture artefacts are developed and maintained throughout the project lifecycle
- Lead end-to-end integration of sub-systems, ensuring alignment with system requirements and design intent
- Engage and manage technical relationships with suppliers and sub-contractors
- Influence requirements at all levels to enable informed design decisions and technical trade-offs
- Provide leadership in identifying, assessing, and managing technical risks and opportunities
- Support test planning, verification, and validation activities to support certification and delivery
- Collaborate with and influence key stakeholders, including customers and end users
- Guide sub-system design teams through technical reviews and assurance processes
- Travel within the UK and internationally to engage with customers and partners
Key skills
- Degree (or equivalent experience) in a STEM subject with strong numerical, analytical, and design capabability
- Strong understanding of systems engineering principles and lifecycle delivery of complex systems and sub-systems
- Experience of technical baselines, change control, and systems/project lifecycle managment
- Solid background in systems architecture and integration within complex engineering programmes
- Proven ability to integrate supplier sub-systems into larger system demonstrations
- Demonstrable experience influencing system design at a senior technical level
- Experience leading or contributing to successful design reviews and resolving complex supplier or integration issues
- Knowledge of military EW, radar, or passive/active RF systems
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