Systems Engineer

£44.85 Per Hour PAYE / £60 Per Hour Umbrella

Role Overview –This team is responsible for the satellite communication solutions which include antenna equipment and management software. The work of the team encompasses solutions for land, sea and air domains

Responsibilities

The Systems Engineer role involves

- Support the Systems Engineering process, culture, competency and discipline, on day-to-day business activities, enabled by adequate Methods & Tools (M&T) products and services.

- This support spans all aspects of the system lifecycle.

The successful candidate will be subject to UK National Security Clearance in order to undertake related work in accordance with business needs.

Tasks and accountabilities

Your main tasks and responsibilities will include (from concept development, to operational deployment and operations, until retirement):

- Identify the stakeholder for the solution to be developed and capture their needs and expectations.

- Identify boundary of the solution to be developed.

- Elicit and validate requirements whilst considering the complete system lifecycle.

- Design and define possible architectures, in collaboration with IS/IT specialists, considering the functions and other requirements (constraints).

- Lead modelling using appropriate systems engineering techniques.

- Lead analysis (e.g., performance).

- Perform trade-off analysis in order to select the best solution fulfilling the requirements.

- Validate architecture.

- Define and manage interface requirements.

- Lead verification of the implementation and its interfaces.

- Lead operational and in-service evaluation.

- Lead impact analysis of any design change request during the entire product lifecycle.

Skill Set

Essential

We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:

- Be able to address the following aspects of a System Engineering appraisal:

- Business or Mission Analysis

- Stakeholders Needs Definition

- System Requirements Definition

- System Analysis and architecture definition

- Design definition

- Verification, Validation & integration

- Transition to Operation

- Understand and implement ‘Systems Engineering' approach and way of working (this includes an understanding of how to develop a system through its whole lifecycle and define a ...