Systems Architect

As a Systems Engineer, you will operate in a customer-facing role, helping to deliver a broad range of complex and challenging technical programmes focused on mission-critical solutions for government and security-focused customers. You will act as a trusted advisor, in a role that demands integrity, diplomacy, and determination, with a wide variety of responsibilities.

We are a leading technology and engineering organisation, working across security, defence, and intelligence domains. We collaborate closely with our customers to solve complex and unique challenges by bringing the physical and digital together.

Key Responsibilities

Acting as technical lead and design authority for teams researching, designing, implementing, and supporting products and delivered solutions

Supporting the development of business cases and applications for product investment, aligned to a defined product roadmap

Applying system design skills across multiple business areas and technologies, including electronic warfare, RF cyber, applications, middleware, and radio systems

Providing technical decision-making, problem-solving, and direction to engineering teams

Leading technical aspects of bids and producing senior-level technical documentation

Planning Integration, Validation, and Verification (IV&V) activities to de-risk delivery

Planning and executing domestic and international system installations and integrations

Engaging with stakeholders to build consensus on solution viability, benefits, risks, and decision support

Key Requirements

Experience across system engineering life cycles, including tailoring and planning

Working with commercial managers and external contractors to deliver system installation and deployment at customer locations

Chairing and contributing to technical and design reviews

Requirements elicitation and management

Risk and opportunity management

Configuration management and baseline development throughout the lifecycle

Knowledge and understanding of Electronic Warfare and, ideally, both military and civil communications systems

Appreciation of hardware, firmware, and software, including SDRs, high-speed ADCs, and RF subsystems

Understanding of production environments, including design and maintenance of manufacturing equipment and test fixtures

Experience with product qualification, safety, and regulatory sign-off

Awareness of environmental regulations and legislation

Knowledge of EMC regulations and control techniques, working with specialists through to sign-off

If you have experience in adjacent domains such as communications systems or radar, you are encouraged to apply, as opportunities for cross-training and development are available.

About the Organisation

Built on decades of heritage, the organisation offers specialist expertise in sensors, communications, cyber, and data-driven technologies including AI and machine learning. We enable organisations to think and act differently by delivering insights from complex, multi-layered data.

We are on an ambitious growth journey, having significantly expanded in recent years with plans for continued growth. Every individual counts. We push technical boundaries together, reinvest in innovation, and empower our people to make a difference.

You'll work from a site set in a countryside location in southern England, offering a calm, non-corporate environment with on-site facilities and good transport links.

We believe everyone has a responsibility to create an environment where people can bring their whole self to work - with the time, trust, and freedom to succeed. We are committed to Equal Opportunity, Diversity, and Inclusion, and strive to maintain a friendly, creative, and supportive workplace for a diverse workforce and those with additional needs.

Benefits and Perks

Flexible working hours to support work-life balance

Annual bonus linked to company performance and individual contribution

Private medical insurance, including cover for existing conditions

Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays, with options to buy or sell leave

Employee savings and share participation schemes