Lead Systems Architect - Submarine Systems

Morson Edge; Dorchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career Development and Training

25 days holiday (increasing to 28, 30)

Dental Cover and Employee Assistance

Job summary

TKMS Atlas UK seeks a System Design Authority to lead system engineering for submarine technology projects. You will own technical direction, drive architecture from concept to customer acceptance, and coordinate with engineering, production and project managers across divisions.

The role emphasizes collaboration with customers and stakeholders, ensuring timely delivery and advancing core capabilities in underwater systems with a path for long-term product development and standardization.

Qualifications

• Systems thinking mindset and ability to see the broader operational context.
• Experience across product lifecycles, systems design and modeling.
• Ability to manage requirements, testing, acceptance and production support.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical leadership and systems engineering from concept to customer acceptance.
• Own technical ownership and authority as systems deployed and supported.
• Collaborate with customers, PMs and divisions to deliver solutions.
• Prepare technical proposals and support bids and quotations.
• Manage technical aspects of allocated initiatives and ensure on-time delivery.
• Align development with other divisions and road-map enabling technologies.
• Drive long-term product development plans and standardization initiatives.

Skills

Systems thinking

Product lifecycles

Systems design

System modeling

Requirements management

Testing

Acceptance

Production

Support

Sonar arrays

Sensor data processing

Signal processing

Telemetry

Real-time systems

Decision support systems

Towed array systems

Cable handling systems

Weapons and countermeasures

Noise and vibration analysis

Acoustic systems

RF systems

Industrial automation

Safety systems

Modeling and simulation

Future submarine concepts

Job description

TKMS Atlas UK seeks a System Design Authority to lead system engineering for submarine technology projects. You will own technical direction, drive architecture from concept to customer acceptance, and coordinate with engineering, production and project managers across divisions.

The role emphasizes collaboration with customers and stakeholders, ensuring timely delivery and advancing core capabilities in underwater systems with a path for long-term product development and standardization.