Job Description

Our client is a leading defence contractor within global defence, security, and critical national infrastructure markets.

The world’s data and the systems that hold it face challenges every day, security is paramount, I client helps its customers protect the independence and integrity of their critical infrastructure, improve the interoperability of their systems and help them test, evaluate, experiment, exercise and train their employees in defending their critical business systems to reduce and overcome threats before they happen.

As a Senior Systems Engineer you will be leading technical engineering activities through the full engineering lifecycle, working in and leading multidiscipline technical teams in a project/programme focused environment.

Key Accountabilities:

• Working either as part of a team or individually to deliver requirements engineering projects to support internal and external customers in their planning and management of acquisition, research or product development activities.
• Supporting the requirements, procurement and V&V phases of projects.
• Analysing stakeholder needs and expectations to elicit, document and manage their requirements for a capability.
• Analysing customer requirements and translating them into logical system requirements and constraints.
• Collaborating with project teams as a solution develops to ensure its continuing compliance to requirements.
• Managing complex information sets.

Qualifications & Experience:

• An ability to understand and analyse business need (Operational User / Mission Need) and articulate these as requirements; engaging with a wide range of stakeholders to establish and validate this need, and provide supporting argument / evidence to business cases.
• Experience of translating business need into high level requirements and design, at the enterprise level, covering the range of elements that make up capabilities (e.g. pan DLOD, PPITF)
• Ability to work with other Project/Systems Engineering and Subject Matter Experts to develop detailed designs and planning through to planning for integration, verification and validation across, having also undertook IV&V.
• Broad understanding of MOD and industry standard acceptance processes with proven capability rollout (transfer to operations) using Agile (desirable) and ‘V’ (Essential) lifecycles.
• Technical competencies: Cryptography and Key Management, Vulnerability Research (CN*), Cyber Defence, Cyber Exercising, DOORS®, architectures, including enterprise architecting and Architectural Framework (e.g. MODAF, TOGAF), Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)