System Architect - Laser Directed Energy Weapons

MBDA UK Ltd; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a pioneering company at the forefront of defense technology, where you'll play a crucial role in developing cutting-edge weapon systems. As a Weapon System Architect, you will engage in the exciting challenge of architecting complex systems, utilizing your expertise in Model-Based Systems Engineering. With a dynamic hybrid working model, you will collaborate with talented teams, tackle innovative projects, and contribute to the development of the UK's first Laser Directed Energy Weapon. Enjoy a competitive salary, generous benefits, and opportunities for professional growth in a fast-paced environment focused on excellence and teamwork.

Benefits

Company bonus

Pension contribution up to 14%

Paid overtime opportunities

Flexi Leave

Enhanced parental leave

Subsidised meals

Free car parking

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in architecting complex systems and MBSE.
• Ability to communicate effectively and build relationships.

Responsibilities

• Support the generation of architectural artefacts for Dragonfire Weapon System.
• Collaborate across teams to manage system requirements and compliance.

Skills

Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)

Communication Skills

Rhapsody

SysML

IBM Engineering Workflow Management

Requirement Management

Tools

DOORS Next Generation

Job description

MBDA are looking for a Weapon System Architect, who will be responsible for supporting the generation of all architectural artefacts within the boundary of the Dragonfire Weapon System!

Salary: Circa £53,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 3 - 4 days per week on-site due to workload classification

Security Clearance: British Citizen

Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

What we can offer you:

• Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
• Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
• Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
• Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave - enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
• Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more...

What we can offer you:

• Company bonus (based on company performance and individual contribution and will vary year to year)
• Pension of maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Annual salary review
• 25 days annual leave (plus holiday purchase)
• Our enhanced parental leave offers up to 26 weeks for adoption and shared parental leave. Enhancements are available for neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments.
• Possible relocation available
• Fantastic site facilities, including subsidised meals, free car parking and more
• Excellent career progression and development opportunities

The opportunity:

DragonFire has been and continues to be a boundary pushing weapon system development programme that has significant industry and customer engagement. Thus far the programme has been aimed at developing the UKs first Laser Directed Energy Weapon (LDEW) concept demonstrator, achieving significant success recently with several highly publicised trials activities.

Following on from these successes MBDA is looking for flexible and motivated candidates to continue to develop DragonFire into a world class, deployable, LDEW air defence system. Our ambitious plans involve parallel and interleaved streams of pioneering technology experimentation and rapid weapon system development, providing opportunities across the key weapon system domains of Systems Engineering: requirements, design, performance analysis and certification.

What we're looking for from you:

• Have good familiarity with architecting complex systems - including having been a practitioner of MBSE in a relevant environment.
• Have great communication skills, ability to build relationships and work collaboratively across local and wider teams.
• Be comfortable with learning rapidly and understanding highly complex problems in an uncertain environment.
• Be proficient with:
  • Rhapsody & SysML
  • IBM Engineering Workflow Management (formerly Rational Team Concert)
  • DOORS Next Generation (ideal but not essential)

Ideally experience in some of these areas:

• Managed system requirements, verification and compliance evolution against a rapid system baseline release schedule.
• Generated detailed requirement sets on the basis of a variety of drivers and manage change over baselines.
• Supported system requirement flow-down through to design and implementation teams.
• Initiated and driven risk quantification and mitigation activities as trade studies.
• Supported technical mediation, communicating issues, architectures and ideas at all levels and to varying degrees of specificity.

Be a flexible systems thinker:

• Have the ability to disseminate technical information to stakeholders in an understandable manner.
• Have proven ability to deliver the required output with agreed timescales.
• Develop excellent working relationships with partners and key stakeholders as well as team members and other departments.
• Desire to share and build knowledge within the Systems Design team as the project develops.
• Knowledge of lasers would be beneficial.
• Passion and persistence to get a job done and done well.

What to expect:

• Working with a highly motivated and successful team
• Fast paced environment
• Involvement with new cutting edge technologies and processes
• Interaction with customer/stakeholders

Our company: Peace is not a given, Freedom is not a given, Sovereignty is not a given

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