Senior Systems Engineer Lead - Defense & ISO Lifecycle

ULTRA ELECTRONICS; Taplow; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Bonus Scheme

Private Medical Cover

25 days' holiday

Pension Contribution

Life Assurance

Job summary

ULTRA ELECTRONICS in the United Kingdom seeks a Principal Systems Lead to govern the Systems Engineering lifecycle, guiding multi-disciplinary teams to meet complex technical requirements. The role requires independent judgement, strong leadership, and the ability to coordinate with hardware, software and firmware stakeholders across the program.

The successful candidate will own system-level deliverables, drive design reviews with senior management and customers, and support recruitment and

Qualifications

• Significant experience and a full understanding of Systems Engineering, the lifecycle, various development models and associated processes.
• Significant experience in developing high quality requirements and establishing a fully compliant systems design.
• Experience implementing the full Systems Engineering lifecycle as per ISO/IEEE/IEC standards.
• Technical and Line management experience of a team of systems engineers.
• Experience writing high quality technical documentation and the formal technical review of such material.
• Substantial knowledge of System Engineering practices, methodologies, processes, techniques and technology trends.
• Experience of requirement management and modelling tools.
• Previous hands-on development experience in hardware, software or firmware, particularly embedded.

Responsibilities

• Represents the Systems discipline as the lead Systems Engineer assigned to a project, owning the totality of the Systems work packages and tasking, to deliver obligations and commitments to the enabling technical requirements, agreed processes, plans, quality, schedule and budget.
• Supports the Engineering Project Lead in delivering delegated engineering management obligations, defines team resources and delegates leadership and technical responsibilities for the Systems work packages and assurance tasks.
• Develops technical solutions to large and complex engineering problems, ensuring alignment to Systems Engineering practices and processes.
• Quantifies and implements a marriage of technical processes and technical management processes to achieve the desired solution, delivering Systems Engineering artefacts across the lifecycle.
• Provides technical direction and exerts technical influence across projects to select optimal approaches, processes, risk mitigations, architecture, design and implementation.
• Works with system, hardware, firmware and software architects to ensure modularity, reuse and technical excellence.
• Plans and delivers design reviews to senior management and customers to achieve clear outcomes.
• Leads and manages Systems aspects of the project to balance requirements, maturity, risk, schedule and cost.
• Manages customers and external suppliers to define and achieve objectives; ensures acceptance of the technical solution and artefacts.
• Acts as Design Authority and supports in-service phase and future opportunities/change.

Skills

Systems Engineering

Technical leadership

Requirements management

ISO/IEEE/IEC standards

Embedded hardware/software

Security clearance

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Defence/Aerospace experience

Tools

Modelling tools

Requirements management tools

Job description

ULTRA ELECTRONICS in the United Kingdom seeks a Principal Systems Lead to govern the Systems Engineering lifecycle, guiding multi-disciplinary teams to meet complex technical requirements. The role requires independent judgement, strong leadership, and the ability to coordinate with hardware, software and firmware stakeholders across the program.

The successful candidate will own system-level deliverables, drive design reviews with senior management and customers, and support recruitment and