Synoptix
Principal Systems Engineer - Systems Architecture
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The Role
As a Principal Systems Engineer at Synoptix focusing on Systems Architecture, you will be helping guide the scope and direction of the engineering projects you are working on. You will work alongside Capability Leads to help lead the charge and drive the Systems Engineering capability into the future. Within Synoptix, you will be a mentor to early careers, providing coaching, guidance and support, while promoting Digital Engineering best practices across the organization. The ideal candidate will have a passion and drive to become a technical expert in their specialism.
As an agile business in the true sense the principal engineer will be given the relative freedom to take ownership at the strategic level of the project. This involves talking to the external stakeholders at a high level within the customer organization and feeding back to the business within engineering management meetings etc.
Day to day tasking can include:
- Delivering technical expertise on a variety of customer projects from air to sub-surface
- Supporting Systems Engineering activity across the design lifecycle
- Development of proposals and statements of work
- Engaging with customer representative to identify opportunities, and seeing them through to delivery
- Attending Synoptix internal management strategy meetings
- Guiding junior engineers in project delivery, where needed
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Key Skills
We are interested in any of the following skills, but they are not essential for you to apply:
- Facilitating good Systems Engineering practices
- Application of Digital Engineering methodologies
- Systems Engineering Architecture
- Systems Thinking
- Requirements Capture, Management and Analysis
- Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
- Systems Integration
- Verification and Validation
- Successful delivery of SE documentation
- Knowledge of supporting toolsets (e.g. DOORs, JAMA, JIRA, Enterprise Architect, Cameo Systems Modeller, Rhapsody, MATLAB, Simulink)
Desirable Skills
- Experience across a breadth of Systems Engineering skillsets
- Thought leadership for the future of Digital Engineering within Systems Engineering
- Interest in interacting with MBSE working groups within industry
Benefits
- Discretionary Company Bonus – At the end of each financial year, based on company / personal performance
- 25 Days holiday not including bank holidays with the option to buy/sell up to 5 days
- Flexible hybrid working arrangements
- Continuous professional development including incentives
- Access to online Udemy training facility to support grade specific learning pathways
- Electric car scheme
- Bike to work scheme
- Private health care (AXA)
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About Us
Synoptix was formed in 2011 to provide engineering solutions across various technical industries. We have evolved from a company established and focussed on Systems Thinking principles into an Engineering company providing solutions and services across three key capabilities: Systems, Cyber & InfoSec and Technology.
What makes us stand out is how we engage in the crossover areas between these disciplines, combining our strengths to provide a truly bespoke, market leading approach. Our engineering competence is bolstered by expertise in commercial, legal, financial and resource, thereby ensuring that we uphold excellence in our product and service offerings.
Please note that due to the nature of our projects we can only accept Sole UK National candidates who will need to be eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance.
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