Senior Systems Engineer – Defence Tech & Systems Leadership

QinetiQ Limited; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension and life assurance

Generous holiday allowance

Health & dental insurance

Employee discounts

Job summary

QinetiQ Limited is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join a multi-site team (Farnborough, Malvern, Portsmouth or Bristol). You will deliver nose ranging and tracking capabilities within Underwater Test and Evaluation, ensuring high-quality system outcomes.

In this role you will define architectures, concepts of operations and detailed models, while coordinating with stakeholders and managing junior engineers to meet UK defence project requirements.

Qualifications

• Proven experience applying systems engineering principles across projects.
• Strong ability to engage with stakeholders and manage technical teams.
• Experience delivering engineering outputs such as management plans, product descriptions and test reports.

Responsibilities

• Applying a systems engineering approach and delivering key engineering activities across significant projects
• Engaging with stakeholders, project managers and technical teams to meet customer and business requirements
• Leading technical teams, structuring workloads, reviewing outputs and managing junior systems engineers
• Defining and applying systems engineering processes including requirements engineering, system design and support
• Delivering technical documentation, reporting progress and escalating major technical issues where required
• Applying relevant regulatory, safety and technical standards to ensure compliance

Skills

Systems engineering

Stakeholder engagement

Team leadership

Requirements engineering

System architecture

Education

Degree level qualification or equivalent

Job description

QinetiQ Limited is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join a multi-site team (Farnborough, Malvern, Portsmouth or Bristol). You will deliver nose ranging and tracking capabilities within Underwater Test and Evaluation, ensuring high-quality system outcomes.

In this role you will define architectures, concepts of operations and detailed models, while coordinating with stakeholders and managing junior engineers to meet UK defence project requirements.