Senior Systems Engineer, Naval Platforms - Hybrid Growth

Navantia UK; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Career development opportunities

Lead ILS activities

Collaborative workplace

Company pension

31 days holiday

Life assurance

Job summary

Navantia UK is seeking a Principal or Senior Systems Engineer to lead end-to-end systems engineering for advanced naval platforms in Bristol. You will shape requirements, architecture, and V&V strategies across complex programmes, and drive compliance with naval standards.

The role requires strong MBSE experience, governance of interfaces, and the ability to mentor colleagues while engaging senior stakeholders. Hybrid office-based work in Bristol with international collaboration is expected.

Qualifications

• Experience in naval/marine systems engineering.
• Ownership of architecture, requirements, interfaces and configuration control.
• MBSE experience for decision support.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders across disciplines.
• Keen to work in regulated, safety/assurance-led environments.
• BPSS security checks eligibility may be required.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end requirements capture and management—validated, traceable and maintained through the lifecycle.
• Set the systems engineering approach (SEMP), governance and lifecycle strategy for complex naval programmes.
• Define and lead the Verification & Validation strategy, methods and acceptance criteria.
• Lead development and control of system/subsystem specifications and interface definitions.
• Create and govern architecture modelling (use cases, functional/logical/physical architectures, behaviour and data flows).
• Strengthen configuration and traceability in the PLM environment (Siemens Teamcentre) across requirements, architectures and V&V artefacts.
• Build compliance evidence against naval ship rules, legislation and international standards.
• Provide technical leadership - mentor others and steer decisions with internal and external stakeholders.

Skills

Systems engineering

Architecture ownership

MBSE

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Security clearance

Education

BSc in Systems/Electrical/Control Engineering

Master’s/INCOSE CSEP/ESEP

Tools

Siemens Teamcenter

Job description

Navantia UK is seeking a Principal or Senior Systems Engineer to lead end-to-end systems engineering for advanced naval platforms in Bristol. You will shape requirements, architecture, and V&V strategies across complex programmes, and drive compliance with naval standards.

The role requires strong MBSE experience, governance of interfaces, and the ability to mentor colleagues while engaging senior stakeholders. Hybrid office-based work in Bristol with international collaboration is expected.