Job Description:

Senior Systems Engineer (Ref: 1674)

Initial 6-month contract
2-3 days onsite in Bristol p/w
£68.81ph, UMB inside IR35
SC to start - UKEO

• Experience capturing and analysing stakeholder needs to guide the development of service solutions suitable for future operational environments.
• Experience applying Model‑Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approaches to develop service and product system architectures in response to stakeholder requirements.
• Experience generating Use Cases and conducting Functional Analysis to support requirements refinement and validation.
• Experience managing requirements and maintaining traceability throughout the engineering lifecycle.
• A solid understanding of the engineering lifecycle and how early technical decisions impact later development and support phases.
• The ability to balance competing needs and constraints using structured methods such as trade studies.
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence, communicate effectively and adapt to changing programme demands.
• The ability to work confidently with internal and external stakeholders across diverse organisations, disciplines, backgrounds and levels of seniority.
• A commitment to maintaining engineering best practice, including seeking insight from academia, industry benchmarks and wider external sources.
• The ability to explore and articulate the problem space objectively, without bias toward predetermined solutions.
• An appreciation of how systems integrate into a broader capability enterprise-such as system‑of‑systems relationships and dependencies on personnel, training and infrastructure.
• A self‑motivated mindset with strong problem‑solving skills and the drive to take complex issues through to resolution.