Senior Systems Engineer & Technical Authority (Maritime)

Expleo Group; West of England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ExpleoAcademy

Competitive benefits

Collaborative environment

Job summary

Expleo Group is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer to join the Maritime Engineering team. You will provide technical leadership in the design, integration and delivery of Combat Systems programmes, acting as the primary technical escalation point below Chief Engineer.

In a high-assurance, safety-critical environment, you will govern delivery, ensure compliance with standards, and drive capability development across multiple programmes with a matrix leadership style.

Qualifications

• Degree in a relevant engineering or computing discipline.
• Strong lifecycle knowledge (requirements, architecture, integration, V&V, quality).
• Chartered Engineer (or equivalent) preferred.
• INCOSE CSEP (Systems); ESEP-aligned capability preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical authority across projects and bids, approving key technical outputs, plans and estimates.
• Escalation point for technical risk, quality and engineering integrity issues.
• Assure compliance with relevant standards, legislation and engineering governance.
• Conduct and oversee technical reviews and audits in line with project quality plans.
• Intervene where technical risk exists, including stopping work on technical grounds.
• Ensure projects are resourced with appropriately SQEP engineers.
• Lead and develop Engineering Team Leads (ETLs) and Team Leads (TLs).
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering practice and capability maturity.

Skills

Technical leadership

System architecture

V&V

Requirements management

INCOSE-aligned systems

Education

Degree in engineering or computing

Chartered Engineer or equivalent

Job description

Expleo Group is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer to join the Maritime Engineering team. You will provide technical leadership in the design, integration and delivery of Combat Systems programmes, acting as the primary technical escalation point below Chief Engineer.

In a high-assurance, safety-critical environment, you will govern delivery, ensure compliance with standards, and drive capability development across multiple programmes with a matrix leadership style.