Command and Control Subsystem Engineering Lead

Overview

As the technical lead for the Command & Control subsystem within MBDAs DragonFire LDEW initiative, you will direct a multi-disciplinary CAT to shape the C2 architecture and ensure integration with ship systems. You will drive requirements capture, trade studies, and risk mitigation to deliver a fit-for-purpose MDC C2/EMS on schedule. You’ll partner with systems, software, and safety teams to lay foundations for future LDEW designs. This is a high-impact, cross-functional leadership role in a critical national defence program.

Pay / Benefits

• Company bonus
• Pension contribution
• Overtime opportunities
• Flexi Leave
• Flexible working
• Healthcare plan

Responsibilities

• Provide direction and technical leadership of the multi-functional CAT, including activity tracking and reporting
• Lead capture and refinement of subsystem requirements for the Command & Control subsystem
• Collaborate with the CAT to deliver the C2 subsystem functional architecture
• Identify and mitigate functional risks, opportunities, issues and assumptions
• Conduct trade studies and analyses to ensure timely delivery of a fit-for-purpose C2/EMS for DragonFire MDC

Key requirements

• Product development / systems thinking mindset with experience in complex systems design
• Excellent stakeholder management
• Experience across the systems engineering / product development lifecycle with focus on delivery
• Proactive, self-managing, able to work under pressure on demanding timescales
• Knowledge of system engineering processes and tools (IBM Rhapsody, IBM DOORS, IBM Engineering Workflow Management)
• Experience in defence or highly regulated environment
• Experience leading cross-functional engineering teams

• stakeholder management
• proactive and self-managing
• works well under pressure
• systems engineering
• requirements capture and management
• trade studies and engineering analyses

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