Principal Systems Engineer

Principal Systems Engineer

The Role:

As a Principal Systems Engineer at Synoptix you will be helping guide the scope and direction of the engineering projects you are working on. As an agile business in the true sense the principal engineer will be given the relative freedom to take ownership at the strategic level of the project. This involves talking to the external stakeholders at a high level within the customer organisation and feeding back to the business within engineering management meetings etc. Internally to Synoptix you are seen as a technical authority and mentor to the early career engineers within Synoptix and have the ability to shape their future by passing on knowledge and experience as well as guiding them on customer project delivery.

Day to day tasking can include:

• Delivering technical consultant expertise on a variety of customer projects from air to sub-surface
• Supporting Systems Engineering activity across the design lifecycle
• Development of proposals and statements of work
• Engaging with customer representative to identify opportunities, and seeing them through to delivery
• Attending Synoptix internal management strategy meetings
• Guiding junior engineers in project delivery, where needed

Key Skills Required:

We are interested in any of the following skills, but they are not essential for you to apply:

• Requirements Capture, Management and Analysis
• Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
• Systems Integration
• Verification and Validation
• Successful delivery of SE documentation
• Knowledge of supporting toolsets (e.g. DOORs, JAMA, JIRA, Enterprise Architect, Cameo Systems Modeller, Rhapsody, MATLAB, Simulink)

Benefits:

• Annual Company Bonus – Based on company performance
• 25 Days holiday not including bank holidays with the option to buy/sell up to 5 days
• Flexible hybrid working arrangements
• Continuous professional development including incentives
• Access to online Udemy training facility to support grade specific learning pathways
• Electric car scheme
• Bike to work scheme
• Private health care (BUPA)
• Job well done scheme
• Employer assistance scheme

About Us:

Synoptix was formed in 2011 to provide engineering solutions across various technical industries. We have evolved from a company established and focussed on Systems Thinking principles into an Engineering company providing solutions and services across three key capabilities: Systems, Cyber & InfoSec and Technology. What makes us stand out is how we engage in the crossover areas between these disciplines, combining our strengths to provide a truly bespoke, market leading approach. Our engineering competence is bolstered by expertise in commercial, legal, financial and resource, thereby ensuring that we uphold excellence in our product and service offerings.

Please note that due to the nature of our projects we can only accept Sole UK National candidates who will need to be eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance.

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