System of Systems Integration Lead

Job Title: System of Systems Integration Lead – Ground Based Air Defence

Salary: Circa £65,000 depending on experience

Location: Bristol

Working Pattern: Dynamic (hybrid) – 3 days per week on-site due to workload classification

Security Clearance: British Citizen or Dual UK national with British citizenship (BPSS required)

• Company Bonus: up to 21% of base salary
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Flexible working arrangements welcomed
• Enhanced parental leave: up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (paternity, neonatal leave and fertility treatments enhancements available)
• Facilities: subsidised meals, free car parking and more
• Healthcare Cash Plan: option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses (optical, dental, health and wellbeing)

As the System of Systems Integration Lead your primary objective is to lead and co‑coordinate a multi‑disciplinary engineering team in engagement with the customer and industry partners, supporting the integration (physical / functional) of an MBDA land product into a wider Ground Based Air Defence Weapon System context.

Key responsibilities include:

• Working with the customer to define System of Systems Requirements, including evolution paths for future development
• Serving as the main technical point of contact to the customer and industry partners for all System of Systems activities and technical queries
• Leading regular technical working groups with the customer, coordinating with engineering teams on required inputs
• Co‑ordinating and working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team on technical issues, queries and conflict resolution, and coordinating responses to and from the customer and industrial partners
• Regular travel overseas (approximately twice a month for 3–4 days, up to three times during busy periods) to support engagement with the customer and industry partners

• Proven experience in developing and integrating complex systems, preferably in the defense industry
• Strong systems thinking skills with the ability to initiate and drive trade studies
• Excellent communication skills to convey technical information to a variety of stakeholders (internal and external)
• Experience developing requirement sets and ability to agree these collaboratively with different stakeholder groups, including System Design Authorities and Government organisations
• Project engineering knowledge to design and deliver work packages