Systems Integration Lead

Location and Pay

Location: Bristol or Stevenage, UK – Hybrid (3 days on-site depending on workload)

Salary: Up to £65,000 depending on experience

*** Please note this role requires you to have British Citizenship***

A leading defence technology organisation is seeking a Systems Integration Lead to join their Land Ceptor System of Systems team. In this role, you will lead a multi‑disciplinary engineering team, integrating a complex land‑based air defence product into wider weapon system contexts for export and evolution programmes.

• Lead the integration (physical and functional) of the Land Ceptor product across system‑of‑systems platforms.
• Act as the main technical liaison with international customers, including managing technical working groups and resolving queries.
• Coordinate across internal and external teams to resolve conflicts and ensure timely delivery of system integration work packages.
• Define and agree requirements collaboratively with stakeholders, including System Design Authorities and government organisations.
• Apply systems thinking to drive trade studies and optimise design solutions.

• Proven experience in developing and integrating complex systems, ideally in the defence sector.
• Strong systems thinking and problem‑solving skills.
• Experience creating and agreeing requirement sets across multi‑stakeholder environments.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to influence and collaborate with internal teams, external customers, and industrial partners.
• Project engineering expertise with the ability to autonomously lead work packages.

• Bonus of up to 21% of base salary.
• Pension contributions up to 14% (employer + employee).
• Flexible working arrangements and enhanced parental leave (up to 26 weeks).
• Excellent site facilities including subsidised meals, free parking, and healthcare cash plan.

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Reference: AMC/RKI