Contract Principal Systems Engineer – Defense, Onsite UK

Matchtech Group; Oakdale; On-site; GBP 83,000 - 109,000; Full time

Job summary

Matchtech Group is seeking Principal Systems Engineers on a 6-month contract, Outside IR35, onsite 2-3 days per week in Oakdale. Roles require SC clearance and UK employment checks.

You will deliver System Engineering across MoD programmes, including requirements, interfaces, design analysis and verification against EMC and environmental conditions. Ideal candidates bring experience with large, complex systems across the lifecycle, strong documentation skills, and ability to collaborate with

Qualifications

• The candidate will have experience in large, complex systems across all phases of the project lifecycle.
• Experience working in a multi-discipline systems engineering team.
• Experience delivering across all phases of the engineering lifecycle.
• Strong ability to create well-structured technical documents and to present at reviews.

Responsibilities

• Engage in requirements elicitation and development for MoD programmes.
• Define interfaces and perform design analysis including trade studies.
• Develop designs for technical performance measures.
• Specify sub-systems and compute devices, including laptops/servers.
• Review supplier designs for EMC, climatic and Induced environments.
• Prepare and present technical documentation and progress at reviews.

Skills

Systems engineering

Technical documentation

Stakeholder communication

Team collaboration

Requirements elicitation

Tools

SysML

Requirement Management tools

MS Office

Job description

Matchtech Group is seeking Principal Systems Engineers on a 6-month contract, Outside IR35, onsite 2-3 days per week in Oakdale. Roles require SC clearance and UK employment checks.

You will deliver System Engineering across MoD programmes, including requirements, interfaces, design analysis and verification against EMC and environmental conditions. Ideal candidates bring experience with large, complex systems across the lifecycle, strong documentation skills, and ability to collaborate with