Systems Engineering Consultant

Job Description

Systems Engineering Consultant - Defence, Government and Security sector.Salary - £40K-£70K plus pension, 25 days holiday, life assurance - Hybrid roleLocation - Portsmouth & South WestOur client is a successful technical consultancy delivering systems engineering services to government and industry. They have experience within defence, nuclear, space, security and transport sectors of the UK and NATO which enables their team to providesolutions to support a diverse stakeholder group and community of varying sizes and complexity.As a Systems Engineering Consultant you will be working with clients to analyse their problems; capture requirements; create architectures; identify potential options; assess solutions using systems analysis methods; and make recommendationsbased on robust evidence. Projects will typically be in support of research and procurement activities in the defence and security sector but may include work in other sectors and government departments.Responsibilities re Systems Engineering Consultant will include:

• Delivering/ leading technical consulting projects.
• Using systems engineering to tackle real world problems, applying tools and techniques, and developing novel approaches where required.
• Applying and developing systems engineering methods, tools and techniques, including developing and applying novel approaches where required.
• Working organically in customer teams to deliver high quality systems engineering advice & artefacts.
• Building new relationships and maintaining current customer relationships.
• Assisting/ leading in identifying and winning work for a new and growing consultancy.

Skills & Experience required for the role of Systems Engineering ConsultantThe successful candidate must be able to demonstrate the following essential and desirable attributes:Essential

• Educated to degree level, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Ability to use and apply both soft’ and hard’ systems engineering techniques to support system design/ development, business decision making, policy development, and/or research.
• Development, application, and delivery of systems engineering methods, tools and artefacts. Knowledge and Understanding of the Systems Engineering Lifecycle. ]
• Building and maintaining client and stakeholder relationships.
• Authoring technical reports, developing systems engineering artefacts, and presenting to customers.

Experience in some of the following:o Requirements elicitation and derivationo Enterprise & System Architectingo Verification & Validation/ Test & Evaluationo System Integrationo Technology & Capability Roadmappingo Capability/ Effects-based Engineeringo Option Analysis/ Solution trade-off studieso Risk management and analysiso Workshop design and facilitationDesirable

• Experience of using specialist Systems Engineering Software (e.g., Sparx EA) to develop SE Artefacts.
• Experience of delivering projects via MBSE.
• Experience of working in UK Defence or UK Government Departments utilising Systems Engineering.
• Membership of relevant professional institution and a desire for further professional development.

Keywords - Government, Security, NATO, Defence, V-Model, Requirements Capture, Systems Engineering, ISTAR, Satellite Systems, Space, Systems Architecture, Sparx EA, SE Artefacts, Verification, Validation, Systems Engineer

Keyskills :
ISTARSystems EngineeringV-ModelSatellite CommunicationsSPACE