Senior System Engineer
hace 4 días
Loudwater
Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer – Hardware & Secure Systems Location: Loudwater Salary: £DOE Are you a Systems Engineer who thrives on complexity, security, and real-world impact? As a dedicated recruitment partner at ESCO Maritime, we are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the development of secure, hardware-centric systems in a highly regulated environment where precision, resilience, and innovation are critical. This is a role for someone who enjoys owning the full system lifecycle, influencing design decisions, and working at the intersection of hardware, software, and secure architectures. The Role You’ll take a lead position in delivering complex systems from concept through to in-service support, with a strong focus on secure design, hardware integration, and systems assurance. Key responsibilities include: • End-to-End Lifecycle Ownership – Define and manage system lifecycles from concept to retirement, ensuring robust governance and clear design decisions, • Requirements Engineering – Capture, analyse, and manage complex, traceable requirements, ensuring alignment across multidisciplinary teams, • System Architecture & Design – Develop secure, hardware-led architectures with full traceability from requirement to solution, • Technical Leadership – Lead cross-functional engineering teams (hardware, software, electrical), driving delivery and resolving technical challenges, • Integration, Verification & Validation – Plan and execute system integration, testing, and formal acceptance in line with stringent standards, • Interface & Configuration Management – Maintain system integrity across internal and external interfaces, • Security & Compliance – Ensure systems meet defence-grade security, regulatory, and safety requirements, • Stakeholder Engagement – Work closely with customers and senior stakeholders, influencing decisions and managing evolving requirements, • Continuous Improvement – Drive best practice across systems engineering processes, tools, and methodologies What We’re Looking For Essential: • Degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or similar, • Strong experience delivering complex systems engineering programmes, ideally with hardware focus, • Proven expertise in requirements management, traceability, and configuration control, • Experience across integration, verification, and validation activities, • Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the confidence to challenge and influence, • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, • Experience working in secure or regulated environments, • High proficiency with data, tools, and systems (e.g. Excel, requirements tools) Desirable: • Experience designing or supporting secure systems for defence environments, • Background in electronics, hardware, or embedded systems, • Familiarity with MBSE, Jira, Jama Connect or similar tools, • Experience with ILS, reliability engineering, or technical documentation, • Knowledge of cyber security, information assurance, or secure architectures Why This Role? • Work on mission-critical, secure systems with real-world impact, • Influence architecture and design decisions at a senior level, • Be part of a collaborative, forward-thinking engineering environment, • Opportunity to shape best practices and drive innovation Security Clearance (SC) or eligibility to gain is required to be considered for this vacancy