Principal Systems Consultant

Are you ready for a new technical challenge and an opportunity to progress in your career? Your in depth understanding of systems engineering, ability to develop technical solutions and knowledge of Space Systems and C4ISTAR engineering will help you to support my client as a Principal Systems Consultant.
 
You will have the opportunity to work for a small but very experienced and rapidly growing  Consultancy, who enable their client base to deliver effective projects, using its core skills in Operational Research, Cost Analysis and Systems Engineering. This is a great chance to be part of something new and growing and help shape the direction and growth of the company with your decision making.  A corporate benefits package and transparent career development opportunities are on offer within this vibrant Engineering environment.  
 
About the job:
 
Our client currently requires an experienced Systems Engineer / Defence Analyst to deliver analytical and systems engineering support to help clients design systems, optimise solutions, and make better decisions. You will work predominantly on Space Systems engineering projects across the systems lifecycle, using your sound understanding of scientific and mathematical techniques to develop technical solutions to business problems.
About you:
As a Principal Systems Consultant you will require expertise in some or all of the following skills:

• 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.

You will have experience in one or more of the following systems engineering technical specialisms:

• Requirements elicitation and derivation
• Enterprise & System Architecting
• Verification & Validation/ Test & Evaluation
• System Integration
• Technology & Capability Roadmapping
• Capability/ Effects-based Engineering
• Option Analysis/ Solution trade-off studies
• Risk management and analysis
• Workshop design and facilitation

Desirable candidates will have experience of delivering projects via MBSE and of working in UK Defence or UK Government Departments utilising Systems Engineering.
Principal Systems Consultant
Portsmouth / Remote
£50000 - £70000 (depending on experience)
Permanent
 
Keywords: Systems engineer, Space, Defence, C4i, Requirements, DOORS, Analysis, Military, System, Sub-system, Architecture, MoDAF, MBSE.
 
Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time. 
 
Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to sole British Citizens. Applicants who meet this criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, to SC level.
 
This is a permanent position.