Senior Systems Engineer

Job Description
An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Systems Engineer within Thales OME, the role can be based in Reading or Glasgow and depending on the specific project role may require some travel and time spent at other Thales sites, Customer sites or integration and test facilities.
As a Senior Systems Engineer you will be able to work autonomously to contribute towards the systems engineering design activities throughout the engineering project involving:
Definition of Systems Requirements for the product
Creation of design documentation capturing the systems engineering design
Definition of the internal and external interfaces of the system
Functional definition of system behaviour
Development of test procedures to support the verification of the system
Carrying out integration and verification testing against test procedures
Conducting activities to gather evidence that the systems requirements have been achieved
Peer reviewing technical artefacts
Supporting the wider engineering team by sharing knowledge
The successful candidate should be a good communicator who is proactive and able to constructively challenge ideas and concepts and have experience in:
Working as part of a multi-disciplinary design team
Defining systems interfaces, boundaries and other external factors that would impact on design Requirements Engineering (elicitation, decomposition and analysis)
Analysing the operational concepts of a system
It would be beneficial if the candidate also has:
Experience of the decomposition of a systems design to sub-system level
Experience or knowledge of systems modelling techniques
Experience of analysing potential solutions against the key needs in a design brief
Experience of using design analysis techniques (trade-off analysis, calculations, modelling and simulation, etc.)
This role will report to the Discipline Manager for Systems Engineering.