Senior Systems Engineer: Lead Architecture & Lifecycle

HENSOLDT South Africa; Centurion; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

HENSOLDT South Africa is seeking a motivated Systems Engineer to join our multi-disciplinary Engineering team. You will contribute to the full systems engineering life cycle, from defining operational concepts and system requirements to supporting integration, verification, and technical management activities.

The role calls for strong analytical skills, capability to manage system requirements, architectures, and performance analysis across multidisciplinary environments, with emphasis on

Qualifications

• BSc / BEng in Electronic, Software, Mechanical or related Engineering field.
• Minimum 3 years’; preferably 5 years’ experience in advanced engineering environments, doing complex system architectures.
• Formal training in System Life Cycle Management is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage system requirements and architectures within the systems engineering framework to ensure traceability, alignment, and compliance with stakeholder, functional, and physical design expectations.
• Support the development of system-level technical solutions within design, cost, schedule, and regulatory constraints to ensure compliant, supportable, manufacturable, and safe system outcomes.
• Conduct system analyses, modelling, simulations, and trade-off studies within the engineering lifecycle to optimise system performance, inform design decisions, and ensure robust risk and cost management.
• Support system integration, testing, verification, validation, and lifecycle activities within defined engineering processes to ensure successful system realisation, performance compliance, and operational readiness.
• Coordinate technical governance, stakeholder engagement, and project support activities within programme and engineering environments to ensure alignment, effective communication, risk management, and delivery against project objectives.

Skills

Systems engineering principles

Requirements management

System architecture development

Modelling & performance analysis

Traceability & lifecycle

Analytical & documentation skills

Education

BSc/BEng in Electronic/Software/Mechanical

BSc/BEng (Hons) or MSc/MEng advantageous

Tools

Systems engineering tools

Job description

HENSOLDT South Africa is seeking a motivated Systems Engineer to join our multi-disciplinary Engineering team. You will contribute to the full systems engineering life cycle, from defining operational concepts and system requirements to supporting integration, verification, and technical management activities.

The role calls for strong analytical skills, capability to manage system requirements, architectures, and performance analysis across multidisciplinary environments, with emphasis on