Lead Systems Engineer

Company: Matchtech
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Location: Kent
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you will lead a systems engineering team within a highly innovative engineering organisation. You will guide engineers, support career development and wellbeing, and shape long-term team capability. You will partner with project and engineering managers on planning, resourcing and technical decisions to ensure on-time, within-budget delivery of complex solutions. You will work across multidisciplinary teams to implement robust technical solutions and bid for new work. This is a hands-on leadership role with a clear impact on team performance and project success.

Pay / Benefits

  • Competitive salary and benefits package

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor and support engineers in their professional development and day-to-day activities
  • Foster a positive team culture, promoting engagement, wellbeing and continuous improvement
  • Understand project scope, deliverables, timelines and resource requirements to support successful project delivery
  • Collaborate with project and engineering managers to assess team capacity and future resource needs
  • Provide recommendations on skills development, recruitment and workforce planning
  • Ensure project dependencies, facilities and technical requirements are identified and managed effectively
  • Support business growth activities by contributing to bids, estimates and proposals
  • Monitor and maintain project schedules, budgets and engineering plans
  • Work across multidisciplinary teams to identify and implement effective technical solutions

Key requirements

  • Degree qualification, or equivalent experience, in a relevant engineering or scientific discipline such as Systems Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics or Mathematics
  • Proven experience within a Systems Engineering environment and across the engineering lifecycle
  • Experience using industry-standard systems engineering and requirements management tools such as DOORS, Polarion, Enterprise Architect, Cameo, MATLAB and/or Simulink
  • Demonstrated experience leading teams and making technical and/or managerial decisions
  • Strong stakeholder management, communication and leadership skills
  • leadership
  • stakeholder management
  • communication
  • DOORS
  • Polarion
  • Enterprise Architect

Posted: September 14th, 2026