Principal Systems Engineer

About the job

Job Title: Principal Systems Engineer
Location: Malvern, Worcestershire + Adaptive Working Arrangement
Package: Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits Package
Role Type: Full time / Permanent 
Role ID: SF13627

Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as a Principal Systems Engineer at our Malvern site where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and many of the industry's most brilliant minds.

The Role
As a Principal Systems Engineer you'll have a role that is out of the ordinary. You'll be making a real and immediate contribution to UK national security and defence, developing and delivering operational capabilities in the Cyber and Crypto domains.

We are offering the opportunity to work closely with customers, making use of strong, business analysis, consultancy, Systems Thinking and requirements engineering skills. You will be able operate throughout a project's lifecycle to engage with complex stakeholder sets, scope and elicit their needs, engineer these into a structured, disciplined model of their requirements and support subsequent acquisition of a solution.

Day to day you'll:

• Work flexibly, either as part of a team or autonomously, delivering customer-friend consultancy and business analysis to support internal and external customers in their planning and management of acquisition, research or product development activities.
• Understand and analyse stakeholder needs and expectations to elicit, document and manage their requirements for a capability.
• Analyse customer requirements and translating them into logical system requirements and constraints
• Support the V&V phase of projects.
• Collaborate with project teams as a solution develops to ensure its continuing compliance to requirements.

 Essential experience of the Principal Systems Engineer:

• Knowledge of the UKIC & Defence domains within which we operate
• Ability to work with other Project/Systems Engineering and Subject Matter Experts to develop detailed designs and planning.
• Experience of planning for integration, verification and validation across UKIC or defence
• Systems Engineering background with a focus on electronics, RF, communications, navigation, or cyber.

 Qualifications for the Principal Systems Engineer:

We value difference and we don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience then we would like to hear from you.

Please note that all applicants must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.

Our Benefits

• Adaptive and flexible working
• Generous holiday allowance
• Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy up to 5 days' additional leave
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant
• Payroll Giving and Volunteering - helping charities and local community

Why Join QinetiQ?
As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there's never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You'll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you'll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture.

About QinetiQ
As a company of thousands of dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Security
Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information, which mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may affect the roles that you can be employed in.