Senior Systems Engineer

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 20 April 2026
LOCATION
Rochester, Kent
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
SALARY
£60,000 / year
CATEGORY
Engineering
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SKILLS

Systems Engineering Requirements Management Model Based Systems Engineering DOORS MATLAB Simulink Integration Test

FULL DESCRIPTION

Senior Systems Engineer

Join a leading global defence, security and aerospace company as a Senior Systems Engineer in Rochester, Kent. The role involves developing and supplying products across various platforms, with responsibilities including requirements management, system architecture development, integration, and testing. Both full-time and part-time options are available.

Main Responsibilities:

  • Understanding our customers’ complex needs and collaborating to develop, validate and manage requirements at multiple levels
  • Developing complex system architectures and sub-systems using a Model Based Systems Engineering approach
  • Integration, analysis and test of real time systems containing multiple technical disciplines such as electronic, mechanical, optical and software sub-systems
  • Taking accountability for collaborative technical work package execution and associated outcomes
  • Providing guidance, coaching and nurturing talent in other engineers
  • Verifying that customer needs are satisfied
  • Steering new and improved systems development through implementation whilst making use of best practice systems lifecycle processes alongside techniques such as Learn First and Agile

Benefits:

  • Relocation package available.
  • Enhanced Pension scheme- up to 14% combined
  • Flexible working pattern including working from home/ flexible start and finish times
  • 25 holiday days plus bank holidays- 26 days after 5 years’ service/ 27 days after 10 years’ service
  • Shared Incentive Plan
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Life Assurance (you and your spouse/ partner)- 6 x salary
  • Ill Health Income Protection/ Private Medical Insurance- 50% of salary

About You:

Essential:

  • Proven experience developing systems in relevant product markets and/or domains, such as control systems, real time displays or other safety related systems, containing multiple technical disciplines such as electronics, mechanics, optics and/or software
  • Proven experience in requirements management, design analyses, modelling and simulation, using tools such as DOORS, Siemens Polarion, Enterprise Architect, MATLAB and/or Simulink and design methodologies such as SysML
  • A degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant Scientific/Engineering subject (e.g., Systems Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Physics or Mathematics)

Desirable:

  • Experience in integration, test, and verification of real time and/or safety related systems, with understanding of safety assessment processes including how these processes influence the design
  • Customer and/or supplier liaison experience for technical aspects, verifying and obtaining agreement that customer needs are satisfied
  • An understanding of information assurance, cyber security and environmental impact aspects relating to real time embedded engineering products

You must be eligible to apply for SC clearance and, therefore, must hold a British passport and have lived and worked in the UK for the past 5 years

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