Senior Maritime Autonomy Systems Engineer

L3Harris Technologies, Inc.; Fareham; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

37.5 hour week

Hybrid work

Private medical insurance

Pension 8%

Life assurance 4x salary

Group income protection

Health care options

Employee assistance program

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies, Inc. in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to lead a cutting-edge maritime autonomy programme, delivering advanced defence solutions for naval applications.

You will lead a multidisciplinary engineering team, define technical solutions, support bids and cost estimates, and collaborate withPMs to ensure schedule and quality. The role offers hybrid work with three days onsite, and opportunities to shape technical direction across multiple engineering

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams in defence, maritime, aerospace, or highly regulated environments.
• Strong planning, communication, stakeholder management, and coordination skills.
• Excellent understanding of systems engineering principles, including system context and boundaries, interfaces and interactions, system hierarchies and decomposition, and complexity management.
• Experience with requirements elicitation, analysis, validation, and management.
• Experience on defence programmes and applying SE best practices.
• Proficient in engineering tools including IBM DOORS; knowledge of System Architect and/or IBM Rhapsody is a plus.
• Experience leading the technical delivery of bids, proposals, or capture activities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering strategy and delivery of a complex maritime autonomy programme.
• Mentor a cross-functional engineering team to achieve programme objectives.
• Ensure compliance with engineering governance, business processes, and industry standards.
• Collaborate with Programme and Project Managers to define technical scope, delivery plans, and resource requirements.
• Support business development activities, including bid leadership, solution development, and cost estimation.
• Monitor programme performance and provide regular reporting on technical progress, risks, opportunities, and issues.
• Serve as the primary customer point of contact for engineering and technical matters.
• Drive effective systems engineering practices throughout the project lifecycle.

Skills

Systems engineering

Technical leadership

Stakeholder management

Requirements engineering

Defense / Maritime domain

IBM DOORS

Tools

System Architect

IBM Rhapsody

Job description

L3Harris Technologies, Inc. in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to lead a cutting-edge maritime autonomy programme, delivering advanced defence solutions for naval applications.

You will lead a multidisciplinary engineering team, define technical solutions, support bids and cost estimates, and collaborate withPMs to ensure schedule and quality. The role offers hybrid work with three days onsite, and opportunities to shape technical direction across multiple engineering