Systems Engineer - SC Cleared

Job Description

Your Responsibilities:

• Working closely with the CTO and Chief Engineer you will lead and be accountable for all solutions / end to end design activities for projects across the systems engineering and development lifecycle within solution domains.
• Working with well-understood technologies you will translate business visions, goals, objectives and high-level commissioning requirements into system designs.
• You will take ownership of solutioning activities for major opportunities within delivery programmes and manage the solution design process from initial concepts through to transition into operations.
• You will provide confidence to stakeholders that solutions will achieve their scope, time, cost and quality objectives, and realise their benefits.
• You will own the end to end solution architecture for allocated projects, identifying and engaging all stakeholders, suppliers and delivery teams that need to contribute.
• You will develop elements of technical strategy, roadmaps and vision that align to board approved business cases, policies and wider Enterprise standards.
• You will make design trades and decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity.
• You will provide Technical Design Authority and Governance for technical solution architectures for allocated programmes and projects.
• You will resolve technical disputes between wider peers and indirect stakeholders, taking into account all views and opinions.
• You will maintain effective relationships and deal openly with all key stakeholders, taking into account the needs of all stakeholders.
• You will provide technical consultancy for new initiatives, to assist in the definition of business requirements or technical strategies.
• You will ensure proposed solutions are aligned with key non-functional requirements relating to, amongst other things, resilience, availability, performance, and scalability.
• You will identify and monitor disruptive technologies in opening up innovative opportunities.
• You will steer the development and continuous delivery pipelines for Scaled Agile and DevOps initiatives.
• You will provide team leadership with the ability to motivate and mobilise individuals outside reporting lines.

Desirable Skills:

• BSc, MSc, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, or related field.
• Results-oriented, self-starter, capable of working independently and within a team environment to meet deadlines.
• A track record in leading or developing high quality, enterprise class solutions using a structured system development lifecycle.
• Experience of architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or MODAF to support systems delivery.
• Ability to model solutions using notational standards of UML and Archimate 3.0.
• 5+ years of experience in a design authority, technical/solution architecture or systems engineering role.
• Appreciation of Agile development methodologies including SAFe, DSDM & SCRUM, DevOps and continuous methods.
• Experience working across multiple solution domains such as; Application Architectures, Infrastructure, Security, DevOps Engineering.
• Experience in establishing a project plan and facilitating the setting of priorities.