Principal Systems Engineer - Future Combat Air

Principal Systems Engineer - Future Combat Air
12 month contract
Luton (90% onsite)
£65ph (Inside IR35)
** Please note we can only consider sole UK Nationals (no dual nationalities)**
This role will focus on the development of the ISANKE & ICS domain (Integrated Sensing and Non-Kinetic Effects & Integrated Communications Systems). ISANKE & ICS will provide the GCAP platform and its aircrew with mission-critical information and advanced self-protection.
Key responsibilities - Principal Systems Engineer
Work in multidisciplinary teams spanning a range of activities that help pull together all the necessary engineering and technology strands into a high-performance system.
Work alongside internal stakeholders to understand user needs and requirements with which to define and influence system requirements and designs, ensuring traceability for design compliance and acceptance.
Develop and run test strategies to demonstrate design and implementation compliance, ensuring end-to-end traceability to achieve certification.
Support system integration, verification, and validation activities to test and analyse performance and effectiveness.
Develop and deliver engineering specifications, reports and presentations.
Your Skills and Experience - Principal Systems Engineer
A solid foundation in a relevant technical domain exploited in an EW systems context/application.
High proficiency in requirements generation and management using IBM DOORS.
SysML, in particular MagicGrid Framework and Cameo Systems Modeller
Experience of authoring detailed design artefacts in support of requirements specifications.
Good understanding of design compliance and acceptance criteria relating to requirements and architecture progressive verification and validation at varying stages of maturity.
Strong understanding of systems engineering principles across the development lifecycle.
Previous experience of technical leadership of complex products.
Ability to perform effective interface control management, both in terms of application and derivation, at a sub-system, system and system-of-system levels including the generation of interface control documents.
Ability to obtain SC Clearance for UK-caveated programmes