Lead Systems Engineer

Overview

In this role, you will lead the systems engineering activities for Thales OME, Glasgow, guiding solution architecture from concepts to implementation. You will coordinate IVVQ and interface management across multidisciplinary teams, ensuring alignment with customer and product-line requirements. You will work with the Project Design Authority to maintain system compliance while coaching peers and driving timely delivery. This is a chance to shape complex defence-related systems and contribute to a trusted national capability.

Pay / Benefits

• private medical insurance
• buying or selling annual leave
• cycle to work schemes
• employee discounts
• paid volunteering day
• stocks and shares

Responsibilities

• Define technical solutions and architecture from operational concepts to solution architecture
• Manage interfaces between system functional chains and solution elements
• Lead upfront IVVQ activities and support lifecycle IVVQ
• Perform design trades to meet schedule, cost, and quality constraints
• Lead de-risk activities and communicate design decisions to stakeholders
• Collaborate across disciplines to ensure coherent system design and dependency alignment
• Undertake work package management for key systems work packages
• Interface with Project Design Authority and ensure overall system compliance to customer and product requirements

Key requirements

• Security Clearance (SC) is required or to be obtained prior to starting employment
• Proven ability to lead a engineering team under deadlines, cost, and quality pressures
• Experience in systems design, requirements elicitation, and architecture
• Ability to coach and mentor other systems engineers
• Strong collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to ensure cohesive design
• Understanding of risk management and mitigation in IVVQ
• Experience with multi-disciplinary integration and design coherence

• self-starter
• career coaching and mentorship
• cross-functional collaboration
• systems engineering lifecycle
• requirements elicitation and decomposition
• architecture definition and decomposition

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