Test Systems Architect

ENGINEERINGUK; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering company in the UK is seeking a Test Systems Architect to enhance verification capabilities in their Defence business. The role involves executing V&V IT strategy, developing solutions, and working with various teams. Candidates should have an engineering degree, strong systems engineering skills, and experience in test-facility environments. The position offers a hybrid working model and competitive salary with exceptional benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• Hold a degree in Engineering or equivalent qualification.
• Demonstrate strong systems engineering thinking with the ability to assess risks and develop effective solutions.
• Have an understanding of security principles and their application in IT systems architecture.
• Experience of a test-facility type environment integrating software with physical systems.
• Show problem-solving capabilities with experience in troubleshooting technical systems issues.

Responsibilities

• Execute activities to realise the V&V IT Strategy.
• Elicit, document and maintain customer requirements.
• Develop system definitions and solutions using systems engineering methods.
• Create and execute verification plans, coordinate system implementations.

Skills

Strong systems engineering thinking

Understanding of security principles

Experience in troubleshooting technical systems issues

Network communication methods

Education

Degree in Engineering or equivalent

Job description

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Job Title

Test Systems Architect

Working Pattern

Full-time

Working location

Bristol/Hybrid

Transform the future of verification and validation through digital innovation. As a Test Systems Architect, you'll play a critical role in executing our V&V IT Strategy, developing and implementing systems solutions that enhance testing capabilities across our Defence business.

Why Rolls‑Royce?

Rolls‑Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount. We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere. We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts. Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing

• Execute activities to realise the V&V IT Strategy, including fixing, improving and transforming current digital capability in accordance with the V&V IT systems roadmap
• Elicit, document and maintain customer requirements throughout the solution's lifecycle, from design through to decommissioning
• Develop system definitions and solutions using systems engineering methods, conducting design reviews through Technical Councils to ensure alignment of customer requirements with proposed designs
• Create and execute verification plans, coordinate system implementations and modifications, and work with multidisciplinary teams to configure and maintain product and component testing arrangements

Who we're looking for

• Hold a degree in Engineering or equivalent qualification
• Demonstrate strong systems engineering thinking with the ability to assess risks and develop effective solutions
• Have an understanding of security principles and their application in IT systems architecture
• Experience of a test‑facility type environment integrating software with physical systems
• Network communication methods, familiarity with UDP, TCP/IP and other network protocols
• Show problem‑solving capabilities with experience in troubleshooting technical systems issues

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer. We're committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

To work for the Rolls‑Royce Defence business an individual has to hold a Security Check clearance. Rolls‑Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.

Job Category

Validation and Verification

Posting Date

18 Dec 2025; 00:12

Posting End Date

04 Jan 2026

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