Senior Systems Engineer

Overview

As a Senior Systems Engineer at QinetiQ, you will lead systems engineering for nose ranging and tracking within Underwater Test and Evaluation, delivering high-quality outcomes on major projects like the UK LTPA programme. You’ll define architectures, manage requirements, and guide cross-functional teams to ensure compliant, safe, and effective systems. This role sits at the heart of defence technology and collaboration with expert engineers. You’ll shape delivery across the range and drive impactful technical decisions.

Pay / Benefits

• Matched contribution pension with life assurance
• Generous holiday allowance with option to purchase more
• Health and dental insurance options
• Employee discount portal (insurance, tickets, restaurants)
• Armed Forces Covenant and Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
• Volunteering opportunities

Responsibilities

• Apply systems engineering methods across large projects
• Engage with stakeholders, project managers and technical teams to meet requirements
• Lead technical teams, structure workloads, review outputs, mentor juniors
• Define and apply systems engineering processes (requirements, design, support)
• Produce technical documentation and report progress
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, safety and technical standards
• Deliver system architecture, concepts of operations, models, testing, and range delivery

Key requirements

• Solid grasp of systems engineering principles and lifecycle processes
• Experience selecting suitable SE approaches considering enterprise and acquisition factors
• Proven use of SE techniques to enable project delivery
• Ability define engineering outputs (management plans, product descriptions, test reports)
• Proactive problem anticipation and impact analysis with solutions
• StrongRequirements management, specifications, and system design understanding; negotiation and presentation skills
• Degree level qualification or equivalent
• Stakeholder engagement
• Team leadership and mentoring
• Negotiation and presentation
• Systems engineering principles and lifecycle
• Requirements engineering
• System architecture and design

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