Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer

Location: Remote, with occasional travel to a client site in the South of England and to the Bath office

Sector: TMTS (Technology, Media, Telecoms & Services)

Day Rate: £800/day inside IR35

Clearance Required: BPSS - this role requires additional vetting, so onboarding may take longer than usual. Please get in touch with any queries.

Interview Process: Technical interview

About the Role: As a Senior Systems Engineer you will work with our customer and industry partners on a programme of national importance supporting and improving UK Air Traffic Management (ATM) infrastructure. You'll be given the opportunity to grow and take on responsibility from day one in a challenging, customer-facing environment.

What You'll Do:

• Explore and understand our customer's domain, needs and programme, including Legacy systems, systems context and target value
• Act as a proactive senior systems engineering lead, responsible for understanding and specifying aspects of the problem and solution
• Define and plan the systems engineering needed to derive definitive specifications from high-level requirements
• Lead a small, multi-disciplined team of systems engineers, and domain and engineering specialists
• Be the engineering point of contact for aspects of the problem and solution
• Engage with stakeholders and specialists at a range of organisational levels
• Manage team delivery to quality, schedule and budget
• Carry out hands-on systems engineering, including analysing and modelling large data sets, documents and Legacy systems (with the help of AI/LLM assistants), and specifying solutions with traceability using ISO 15288-aligned requirements and MBSE frameworks
• Work in a multi-disciplinary team to specify and integrate complex safety-critical systems, evaluating operational processes, use-cases and non-functional properties such as safety, security, reliability, maintainability and usability
• Develop strong client relationships and domain knowledge, mentor team members and contribute to capability development

Your Profile

Essential:

• Engineering or science degree, with 10+ years' experience delivering high-integrity systems engineering projects in a regulated industry
• Strong knowledge of relevant industry standards and systems engineering processes across the full life cycle, including requirements management, system specification, verification & validation and systems integration
• Experience in customer-facing, systems engineering lead roles delivering 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, 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 (eg INCOSE CSEP/ESEP), or a clear desire to work towards it
• Chartered Engineer status, or active progress toward achieving chartership