Space Systems Engineering Team Lead - Hybrid, Growth & Impact

Holt Recruitment; England; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Private healthcare

Life insurance

Relocation assistance

Career development

Job summary

Holt Recruitment is partnering with a growing space organisation to appoint an experienced Systems Engineering Team Lead. You will steer a team of systems engineers, shaping architecture and overseeing delivery from concept to integration.

The role blends technical leadership with hands-on engineering, requiring strong requirements management, system trade-offs and clear communication with project managers, customers and suppliers.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in space systems or similarly complex engineering environment.
• Strong grasp of subsystems in satellite missions.
• Proven ability in system requirements derivation and management.
• Experience with system validation, verification and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of approximately 68 systems engineers, supporting their development, workload and performance.
• Define mission concepts, system requirements, technical objectives and development profiles based on customer and stakeholder needs.
• Lead system-level architecture development and technical trade-off studies.
• Identify key technical drivers relating to system performance, risk, cost and schedule.
• Lead technical discussions and present trade-off analyses to engineering and project stakeholders.
• Manage requirements, design baselines and configuration/change management throughout the system lifecycle.
• Coordinate technical deliverables, risk mitigation activities and engineering priorities across multidisciplinary teams.
• Support recruitment, interviewing and onboarding of new systems engineering team members.

Skills

Space systems engineering

Requirements management

Trade-off analysis

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Technical leadership

Systems simulations

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Team leadership

Job description

Holt Recruitment is partnering with a growing space organisation to appoint an experienced Systems Engineering Team Lead. You will steer a team of systems engineers, shaping architecture and overseeing delivery from concept to integration.

The role blends technical leadership with hands-on engineering, requiring strong requirements management, system trade-offs and clear communication with project managers, customers and suppliers.