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Systems Engineering Lead
6 month contract
Based in Bristol
Offering £70ph Inside IR35
Do you have experience across the systems engineering/product development lifecycle?
Do you have experience in functional design and development?
Do you want to work with an industry-leading company?
If your answers are yes to these, then this could be the role for you!
As the Systems Engineering Lead, you will be working alongside a market-leading Defence and Aerospace company who are constantly growing and developing. They are always looking to bring on new talents such as yourself and further develop your skills to enable you to grow within the company and industry!
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You will be involved in:
- Provide day-to-day management, direction, and technical leadership (including activity tracking and project reporting) of the multi-functional Common Architecture Team (CAT)
- Lead the capture, derivation, and refinement of subsystem requirements for the Command & Control subsystem
- Work collaboratively with the CAT to deliver the Command & Control sub-system functional architecture
- Identify and capture functional risks, opportunities, issues, assumptions, and their associated mitigation strategies
Your skillset may include:
- Product development/systems thinking mindset
- Excellent stakeholder management skills
- Experience across the systems engineering/product development lifecycle, with an emphasis on successful project delivery
- Experience in functional design and development
- Practical knowledge and experience of system engineering processes and tools (e.g. IBM Rhapsody, IBM DOORS, IBM Engineering Workflow Management)
- Experience designing complex systems in a defence or other highly regulated environment
- Experience working in or leading a cross-functional engineering team


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