Senior IV&V Systems Engineer (Security Clearance)

Ultra Intelligence & Communications; Maidenhead; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Bonus Scheme

Private Medical Cover

25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays)

Pension Contribution

4 x Life Assurance

Flexible working hours

Security Clearance Allowance

Job summary

Ultra Intelligence & Communications in Maidenhead, UK, seeks a senior Project/Systems Engineer to lead IV&V across the bid and development lifecycle. You will own system requirements, architecture and integration, ensuring design to cost and design for manufacture while aligning with security controls.

The role combines hands‑on technical leadership with mentoring and cross‑functional collaboration. Travel within the UK is expected; DV and SC clearances are preferred.

Qualifications

• Has extant/recent SC security clearance
• Is flexible to travel within the UK to support external stakeholders, test houses and customers.
• Willing and able to obtain, and maintain, DV security clearance
• Degree or equivalent qualification in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or have applicable defence industry experience.
• Knowledge of Systems Engineering/IV&V experience of solutions formed of Hardware, Software and Firmware components.
• Has designed and delivered special to type test equipment to meet the diverse requirements generated across multi-concurrent projects.
• Safety and security management for test environments including laboratories, able to build a business case to ensure that test environments are suitably available, safe & secure.
• Demonstrable experience of INCOSE/ISO 15288 Systems Engineering of complex solutions and delivered IV&V in accordance with ISO 29119.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for assuring the Systems Engineering (in-process verification and validation) and delivery of conclusive evidence via System Integration, Verification and Validation (IV&V) processes and activities.
• Ensure the correctness and completeness of work products and solutions, from the requirements phase onwards, executing an evidence creation strategy in order to progressively gain internal and external acceptance.
• Create and maintain IV&V artefacts such as Strategies, Plans, Procedures, Compliance Matrices and Reports, to progressively assure the desired outcomes.
• Carry out IV&V responsibilities in accordance with IV&V processes and industry practices, so that internal, qualification and acceptance events are completed to an agreed level of maturity.
• Lead the cross-discipline development of any supporting test equipment/rigs/fixtures, via a lifecycle approach; creating requirements, support the design, development, testing of and maintenance, enabling the associated development and in-service test events.
• Responsible for all safety and security aspects relating to IV&V events and facilities used by the project.
• Actively participates, and is a key stakeholder, at engineering design reviews and project gates/reviews, owning the preparation, delivery and resulting actions of TRR.
• To support the Qualification activities, to include in house and external test houses.
• Responsible for the utilisation of any external IV&V facilities/test houses, i.e. organising interoperability testing, collaboratively developing test harnesses/fixtures etc. with test houses.
• Actively contributes to improving processes, tools and techniques that to increase the adoption, quality and efficiency of SE, IV&V engineering.
• Provides specialist knowledge and support to the wider engineering team.
• Exemplifies, leads, mentors and coaches IV&V to engineers and non-technical resources; sharing knowledge willingly and constructively to aid consistent application of IV&V principles, processes and methods.
• Manage security of information as defined in the Security Aspects and Government regulations.
• The role is expected to provide Line Management, Technical Management or Subject Matter Expert responsibilities:

Skills

SC clearance

UK travel

DV clearance

Engineering degree

Systems Engineering/V&V

INCOSE/ISO 15288

Safety & security management

IV&V expertise

Education

Engineering, Mathematics, Physics degree

Tools

JavaScript

Python

Ruby

Perl

Bash

REST

MySQL

Job description

Ultra Intelligence & Communications in Maidenhead, UK, seeks a senior Project/Systems Engineer to lead IV&V across the bid and development lifecycle. You will own system requirements, architecture and integration, ensuring design to cost and design for manufacture while aligning with security controls.

The role combines hands‑on technical leadership with mentoring and cross‑functional collaboration. Travel within the UK is expected; DV and SC clearances are preferred.