Senior Systems Engineer

Raytheon UK has an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Systems Engineer to join our team. As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will bring experience of delivering products through the full lifecycle, from requirements definition through to acceptance. This role is ideally suited to an engineer with a background in the defence sector, particularly within training systems or training development. The role requires a flexible and adaptable approach, with responsibilities varying across different areas of the programme.

At times, you will work within a matrix team to develop procurement strategies, refine requirements for training devices, and support their progression through the procurement lifecycle. At other times, you will act as Raytheon's representative, overseeing and coordinating the activities of subcontractors responsible for the detailed design, development, and delivery of training devices. Success in this role will require strong stakeholder management, effective collaboration across multidisciplinary teams, and the ability to balance technical oversight with project delivery objectives.

Primarily home-based but must be prepared to travel to support internal and customer meetings and duties. You must either currently hold or be eligible and willing to gain BPSS and SC clearance.

• Working with the Solution Architect to define work packages and technical requirements.
• Individually contribute to the execution and delivery of key work packages.
• Undertaking activities associated with product specification and qualification.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to assist in the procurement and implementation of advanced training devices; the wider team includes specialists in requirements, test and acceptance, system architecture and supportability.
• Contributes to problem resolution at a team level.
• Contributes to and helps improve planned system operation.
• Create and maintain documentation for system configurations, processes and procedures
• Be ‘Responsible for championing and fostering a culture of Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) compliance and continuous improvement’.
• Any other duties required to meet the needs of the programme.

• A relevant degree or equivalent training.
• Strong experience in systems engineering, ideally on all elements of the V-model.
• Experience with systems engineering technical standards, principles, theories, concepts and techniques.
• Experience writing scopes of work and acceptance criteria.
• Knowledge of the development of Systems of Systems.
• Ability to work in a collaborative, multi-discipline environment to solve problems.
• Hands‑on experience with configuration management tools
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time with a valid driving licence.

• Experience with Atlassian suite, working with Jira and Confluence
• Experience of working in an Agile/SCRUM/Dev Ops delivery model.
• Awareness of NAFv4 and/or TOGAF.
• Experience of training devices.

• 37hr working week with early finish Fridays!
• 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, increasing with service, plus opportunity to buy, sell and roll over up to 5 days and up to 5 paid days volunteering
• 10.5% company pension contribution with 6% employee contribution
• Annual company bonus scheme (discretionary) 6 times salary
• Life Assurance with pension
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work, amongst others
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave

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