Systems Engineer

SC Clearance required:

We are in search of a Senior Systems Engineer for our engineering capability. The successful Systems Engineer will have a full understanding of the principles of systems engineering, will have prior experience as a Systems Engineer on a major programme involving accepting and integrating deliveries from suppliers.

Using your experience in Systems Engineering, you will be responsible for working with customers and suppliers to execute Systems Engineering activities across the full lifecycle, with specific focus on Model Based Systems Engineering.

 What You’ll Be Doing:

• Member of a high-performing team to deliver IT services to central government agency.
• Demonstrable knowledge of systems engineering concepts and applying these concepts to software-intensive & cloud hosted systems
• Responsible for the delivery of high-level designs, specifications, requirements traceability and working with all engineering disciplines in both definition and delivery of system wide changes.
• Responsible for managing and employing SE standard methods, MBSE models and artefacts, SE processes and tools to accomplish analysis, problem diagnosis and solution design, integration and test preparation, risk assessment and mitigation planning, and related activities
• Interfacing with domain SMEs to identify required activities, perform collaborative planning, review deliverables, and resolve SE issues.
• Owning, impact assessing, updating documentation & overseeing development & release of changes to deployed applications & infrastructure
• Technical management and execution of engineering activities, requirements analysis, implementation planning, third party coordination, integration and test, sustainment, documentation, deployment, and system assessment
• Developing and maintaining systems engineering documentation and diagrams/models through use of traditional and MBSE tools
• Understanding and leveraging approaches to identify

1) Requirements that represent a gap in capabilities and

2) Opportunities for reuse

• Serving as an Agile product owner within a system of products (creation of the product vision, to design and development, through testing and into ongoing support)
• Coordinating with enterprise stakeholders to prioritize product backlogs for sprints and releases.
• Evaluating early designs compared to requirements and oversee systems engineering efforts

Technical aspects required:

Requirements verification and validation/requirements management

•    Customer provides it, and then person verifies everything
•    Tech design meetings with customer - governance
•    Cloud transformation
•    Traditional SE
•    Atlassian - JIRA and Confluence - project scheduling / project coordinator

Common Core Expectations/Key Skills of all staff:

•    Works and thinks in a team to deliver a common goal doing what is necessary to ensure mission success.
•    Interface technologies and design.
•    Experience of application architecture, software engineering approaches and languages.
•    Experience of networking topologies, designs and equipment.
•    Experience of storage and compute designs and implementations.
•    Management of requirements and requirements traceability.
•    Excellent documentation and articulation skills.
•    Understanding of testing approaches, techniques methods and practices.
•    Appreciation of security design, tools and their implementation of security within complex system.
•    Ability to articulate complex system change patterns to enable the creation of project plans to deliver change.
•    T-shaped people willing to step outside normal skillsets to support the team; self-starter, proactive learning as required.
•    Can work in an agile culture in particular SecDevOps.
•    Everyone is expected to be able to work end to end in the lifecycle. 
•    Identifies potential roadblocks and develops around them.
•    Plans and estimates tasks/work to improve performance metrics (team improvement).
•    Builds solutions where the solution is not always well defined but always considers the customer first.
•    Common Technical Skills.
•    ITIL and Service based thinker.
•    Uses Jira and Confluence and updating progress frequently during the day.