Principal Systems Engineer

Leonardo; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in support and service solutions is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to join their team. This key role involves developing innovative solutions for varied customer needs, collaborating with internal and external teams, and managing stakeholder requirements. With a focus on both land and air domains, this position offers an exciting opportunity to influence holistic solutions while supported by a company that values flexibility, well-being, and career development.

Benefits

Flexible Working

Company funded flexible benefits

25 days holidays plus bank holidays

Award winning pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Discounted Gym membership

Free access to online courses

Referral Incentive

Bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Experience managing system-level requirements.
• Experience developing support and service solutions.
• Ability to balance competing stakeholder needs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver support and training solutions.
• Liaise with internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Create and manage stakeholder engagement strategies.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Interpersonal skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

System analysis

Collaboration

Education

Relevant engineering degree

Tools

Requirements management tools

Job description

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At Leonardo, we have a fantastic opportunity for a Principal Systems Engineer to join our team within the Customer Support and Service Solutions (CS3) line of business. CS3 operates across the UK, providing innovative and invaluable support solutions to our customers. We help to ensure the availability of front-line capability wherever and whenever required.

This role will involve developing solutions for the next-generation of support and training services (mainly in the land and air domains), to meet the needs of a variety of customers around the world. You will play a key role in determining customer needs, developing support solution and service concepts, and creating and delivering compelling bids, including the associated documentation.

We are looking for someone with experience of working at a system level, who thrives when working in the problem space, is good at drawing out and understanding stakeholder needs, as well as looking at different concepts for creating optimal value solutions for both the customer and the business. In this role you will work closely with the internal Leonardo teams and with external stakeholders, including suppliers and customers, giving you the opportunity to influence and optimise the holistic solution.

• Support the identification, elicitation, capture and management of a complete set of stakeholder requirements, and support the creation of a stakeholder engagement and communication strategy
• Establish and mature stakeholder needs, associating/attributing priority, interest, influence and trade-off needs to determine optimum capability to solve stakeholders’ problems. Support the establishment of Use Cases.
• Support the creation of support and service solutions including identifying and exploiting existing Leonardo technology, processes, and subject matter expertise to ensure that it is re-used where suitable.
• Carry out system functional analysis, modelling and architecture development / refinement as required
• Deliver technical documentation and designs to meet the requirements of the programme in terms of time, cost and quality
• Escalate emerging issues and levels of risk and helping define opportunities and risk mitigation options
• Coordinate multi-stakeholder analysis into reports and presentations for delivery to customers and industry partners
• Foster relationships and networks within and outside CS3 and actively identify opportunities for adoption of best practice
• Coach or mentor other engineers
• Experience of analysing the Customers’ operational needs to help guide the development of services capable of meeting the needs of current and future support and training environments
• Experience and understanding of the engineering lifecycle, and how decisions made in the early lifecycle affect the later stages
• Ability to balance competing needs using a range of methods such as operational analysis, structured analytical techniques, and competitor analysis
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, with an ability to influence and adapt according to changing demands
• Ability to elicit technical and commercial stakeholder needs that are suitable for sell-off
• Ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders from a wide range of organisations, disciplines, backgrounds and levels of seniority
• Ability to maintain engineering best practice, including looking externally to sources such as academia or other industries
• Experience of managing requirements, including use of associated toolsets
• Self-motivated with an aptitude for problem solving and driving difficult issues to conclusion
• Appreciation of how a system fits within the broader capability enterprise, for example as a component of a system-of-systems solution and wider dependencies such as personnel and infrastructure
• Awareness of digital technologies and/or synthetic environments
• Experience of developing defence-based support or service solutions

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Life at Leonardo

With a company funded benefits package, a commitment to learning and development, and a flexible approach to working hours focused on the needs of both our employees and customers, a career with Leonardo has never offered as many opportunities or been more accessible to as many people.

• Flexible Working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part time opportunities, please talk to us
• Company funded flexible benefits: Access to private healthcare, dental schemes, Workplace ISA, Go Green Car Scheme, technology and lifestyle options (£500 annual allowance)
• Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays, option to buy/sell leave and to accrue up to 12 additional flexi leave days per year
• Pension: Award winning pension scheme (up to 10% employer contribution)
• Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme with access to free mental health support, financial wellbeing support and network groups to demonstrate our ongoing commitment to diversity & inclusion (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Reservists, Carers)
• Lifestyle: Discounted Gym membership, Cycle to work scheme
• Training: Free access to more than 4000 online courses via Coursera
• Referral Incentive: You can earn a reward for successfully referring a friend or family member
• Bonus: Scheme in place for all employees at management level and below