Senior Systems Engineering Consultant

Location:

South / South West: hybrid

Hours:

Full time

Salary:
Negotiable, depending on experience. The role comes with a competitive benefits package including pension (7% company contribution), additional holiday purchase options, private health care, life assurance and electric vehicle scheme.

Sirius Analysis is a rapidly growing technical consultancy that operates across multiple sectors, including Defence, Energy, and Transport. Renowned for our reputation and technical capability, we take pride in understanding our customer needs and meeting their requirements effectively by providing high level quality delivery that is value for money.

Here at Sirius, our team of approximately 100 personnel, is dedicated to delivering high‑quality, end‑to‑end technical consultancy services, ranging from operational analysis, cost engineering, systems engineering, software engineering and Project Management.

As senior consultant, you’ll be expected to utilise your skills and expertise across the Systems Engineering lifecycle, the specifics of which will depend on the type of task you’re deployed on.

As a senior consultant you may be deployed to lead a technical team on short term tasks, providing clients with evidence based analysis and recommendations to solve technical problems. Equally, you could be deployed on longer‑term, large‑scale programmes, operating within a team delivering products and artefacts as part of a wider service or solution. We deliver these services across a wide client base, including UK MOD and NATO, other government agencies, and wider Defence and Non‑Defence industry.

• Supporting delivery of technical consulting projects.
• Designing and applying systems engineering approaches to tackle real world problems.
• Developing analytical tools and techniques, including novel approaches, where required.

You will have a sound understanding of scientific, mathematical or capability analysis techniques, and the proven ability to develop technical solutions to business problems. Candidates will require expertise in some or all of the following areas:

• Experience in either Space Systems, Telecommunications and Network Systems, Military C4I Systems or Digital Engineering practices such Modelling and Simulation or Digital Twins.
• Experience in Systems Engineering lifecycle.
• Experience in Model Based Systems Engineering, using digital tools and models across the engineering lifecycle.
• Experience in Enterprise Architecture, or domain specific architecture – use of architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, NAF, or equivalent.
• Requirements Engineering and use of related tools, such as IBM DOORS, Dimensions RM, or equivalent.
• Creation and management of Capability and Technology roadmaps.
• Stakeholder Management, including workshop facilitation.
• Understanding and use of Service Management practices such as ITIL or eTOM.

We offer a combination of mentoring and internal and external training opportunities, with specialist sector organisations and in‑house courses. You will have exposure to subject‑matter experts and additional online learning packages.

The role comes with a competitive benefits package including pension (7% company contribution), additional holiday purchase options, private health care, life assurance, access to cycle to work scheme and electric vehicle scheme.

We also provide a personal learning budget and additional online learning packages.

Candidates must have an existing right to live and work in the UK.

Candidates will need to be willing to undergo an internal baseline personnel security standard check prior to starting their employment with the company.

Candidates will also need to be willing and eligible to undergo a Security Clearance (SC) check upon starting their employment with the company. To gain SC clearance you will normally need at least 5 years’ UK residency.