Senior Systems Engineer

In this Senior Systems Engineer role, you will shape the NIGHTSHADE modular secure infrastructure from concept to deployment. You’ll define system capability, translate customer needs into deliverable solutions, and coordinate multi-disciplinary teams to ensure security, performance, and operational readiness. The role sits at the heart of a growing product team within the Cyber & Security Solutions Division, delivering trusted engineering outcomes for defence and national security customers. You will work closely with design, manufacturing and support functions to realise robust, verifiable solutions.

• Time to Recharge
• Secure your Future pension
• Wellbeing support
• Free online courses (Coursera/LinkedIn Learning)
• Flexible benefits (£500 annual)
• Hybrid working options

• Lead the development and management of system architecture, requirements and design solutions for NIGHTSHADE
• Capture, analyse and manage customer, operational, legislative and technical requirements throughout the lifecycle
• Develop system and subsystem requirements with traceability across engineering disciplines
• Define architectures, interfaces and functional behaviours to enable delivery of customer capability
• Lead trade studies, system analysis and technical investigations to support evidence-based decisions
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering activities to integrate mechanical, electrical, electronic, software and infrastructure elements
• Define verification, validation and acceptance strategies with clear evidence for compliance
• Lead system integration, qualification and certification activities for product delivery
• Facilitate design reviews, technical reviews and stakeholder engagement across the product lifecycle
• Identify technical risks and opportunities with mitigation strategies and leadership input
• Support product roadmaps and future capability development through emerging technologies
• Provide technical leadership, coaching and guidance to NIGHTSHADE engineers
• Produce and review engineering documentation (requirements specs, interfaces, verification plans, architectural artefacts, reports)
• Collaborate with manufacturing, service and support to ensure practical, deliverable solutions

• Strong technical foundation in systems engineering across a multidisciplinary environment
• Experience applying systems engineering across the full lifecycle
• Experience developing, managing and maintaining requirements with structured approaches
• Experience defining architectures, interfaces and integration strategies for complex products
• Strong understanding of requirements management, verification, validation and compliance demonstration
• Ability to analyse technical information and provide evidence-based recommendations
• Experience working across multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Strong communication skills and ability to present to technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience identifying and managing technical risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies
• Ability to balance technical excellence with practical delivery considerations
• Proven experience delivering systems engineering activities within a complex engineering environment
• Strong understanding of requirements definition, decomposition, traceability, verification and validation
• Experience developing system architectures and managing technical interfaces
• Ability to lead technical investigations and informed decision-making
• Experience working across multiple engineering disciplines to deliver integrated solutions
• Strong technical documentation and stakeholder communication skills
• Ability to provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers and project teams

• Collaborative
• Strong communicative ability with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Leadership and mentoring mindset
• Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approaches and tools
• Requirements management and traceability
• System architecture design and integration strategies for complex products