Senior Systems Engineer – Hybrid & Systems Integration Lead

AECO; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work options

Extra annual leave

Volunteer leave

Flex public holidays

Job summary

AECOM in Melbourne is seeking a Senior Systems Integration & Systems Engineer to lead systems engineering and integration across the project lifecycle, ensuring complex systems meet customer, operational, and regulatory requirements.

You will provide technical leadership in requirements management, system integration, interface management, verification and validation, and engineering assurance, coordinating across disciplines and suppliers.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in engineering, Systems Engineering or a related STEM discipline.
• Demonstrated delivery of Systems Engineering on complex projects (transport, infrastructure, technology or safety-critical environments).
• Proficiency in Requirements Engineering and Management (IBM DOORS/DOORS Next or similar), including RVTMs.
• Experience in Systems Architecture and SBS development.
• Interface identification and management; Systems Integration planning.
• Understanding of Verification and Validation across the lifecycle.
• Ability to independently apply and tailor Systems Engineering lifecycle processes to context.
• Experience delivering technical work packages and guiding junior team members.
• Professional accreditation (e.g., CPEng, RPEQ, INCOSE CSEP/ASEP) is valued, or progress toward it.

Responsibilities

• Apply and tailor Systems Engineering lifecycle processes to project scope, complexity, risk and delivery model.
• Define systems: analyse stakeholder and operational needs, develop the System Breakdown Structure (SBS), perform functional decomposition and set system boundaries.
• Manage requirements end to end (elicitation, analysis, development, allocation, traceability, baselining, compliance and verification), including maintaining RVTMs.
• Develop functional and physical architectures; allocate functions and requirements to system elements and define relationships across systems and subsystems.
• Identify and manage internal and external interfaces and dependencies; support multidisciplinary teams to resolve interface issues.
• Plan Systems Integration: define integration dependencies, sequencing, constraints, risks and coordination across disciplines and delivery partners.
• Assess change impacts and apply structured technical risk and decision management to maintain system integrity.
• Provide senior technical input to design and technical reviews; identify gaps, inconsistencies and integration risks and drive timely resolution.
• Produce high-quality Systems Engineering plans, reports, specifications and technical documentation.
• Lead defined work packages to agreed scope, schedule and budget.
• Mentor Systems Engineers and graduates; help build our Systems Engineering capability.
• Support client engagement and proposals, contributing to methods, scopes and estimates.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements management

Interface management

Stakeholder engagement

Technical leadership

Education

Engineering degree

Professional accreditation (e.g., CPEng)

Tools

IBM DOORS/DOORS Next

Capella

MBSE tools

Job description

AECOM in Melbourne is seeking a Senior Systems Integration & Systems Engineer to lead systems engineering and integration across the project lifecycle, ensuring complex systems meet customer, operational, and regulatory requirements.

You will provide technical leadership in requirements management, system integration, interface management, verification and validation, and engineering assurance, coordinating across disciplines and suppliers.