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Principal Consultant - Systems Engineering
Job Posted: 17 hours ago
Salary: £ Competitive
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Description
About Us
Sagentia Defence has a track record of success, as a trusted partner to customers within highly regulated Government programmes. As a result, we are looking for a new Principal Consultant within our Systems & Supportability Engineering (S&SE) team.
The Head of Systems and Supportability Engineering will grow a team around them, and alongside other departments, to set strategy and deliver multi-disciplinary support to some of the most complex Government programmes.
The S&SE team manage requirements at all stages of the Systems Engineering lifecycle, including elicitation of capability/user requirements, generation/management of system requirements, testing and acceptance.
What we’re looking for
The right applicant for this role will be someone who has a consultancy or Defence background, with the ability to work autonomously or within engineering and cross-functional teams. As a Principal Consultant you will be responsible for:
Vision and Strategy: Assisting in setting the vision and strategy for the department in collaboration with the other capabilities. Ensuring that it is then communicated across the Company and aligned with the wider Sagentia Defence vision and strategy.
Team leadership: Motivating, coaching and managing the performance of team members. Leading team meetings to share knowledge, co-ordinate activities, pursue opportunities and address issues.
Capability Development: Developing and maintaining S&SE service offerings aligned to account demand signal and collaborating with other departments to ensure services are coherent across the business. As a Principal Consultant your focus will be developing:
Requirements Engineering and Management across all DLoDS
System and System of Systems Architecture;
MBSE;
Integrated Logistics/Product Support;
Engineering Management;
Engineering Governance.
Training and Development: Coaching people on the use of Systems Engineering and techniques. Staying at the forefront of profession, we encourage career development through attendance to conferences, steering committees and tailored training and development as and when required.
Business Development: Supporting Account Leads by writing technical approaches within bids and presenting to prospective customers. Collaborating with Account Leads to identify need for new capability across all our customers.
Technical Assurance: Working on projects, providing technical guidance and review to ensure project deliverables are of a high quality and meet customers’ expectations.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
You will be someone with firm understanding of requirements management across all Defence Lines of Development, with experience across Operating Domains. You should have a positive, flexible and self-motivated attitude, and be keen to develop yourself and others within the team. You will have experience in:
Delivering Requirements Engineering, Integrated Logistical Support, MBSE, and Engineering Governance in a consultancy context.
Experience of requirements management within the UK MOD (Frontline Commands or Delivery Agents),
Knowledge of the UK acquisition framework (e.g. Business Cases, URD, SRD, CONEMP/CONUSE, ITEAP, etc.)
Experience of DOORS/Dimensions RM software to support requirements management.
Understanding of modern SE approaches like MBSE.
Understanding of complex system of system projects and programmes, especially with respect to integration activities and SoS performance setting and acceptance.
Capability Development of new tools and techniques.
Providing technical guidance and reviews to ensure project deliverables are of a high quality and meet customers’ expectations.
Leading teams in a consultancy setting.
Working within public sector with knowledge of government processes.
Managing a variety of stakeholders both internally and externally.
Contributing and leading successful bids/technical proposals.
If you are interested in applying for this role, candidates must have:
An existing right to live and work in the UK.
Either hold a current SC clearance or be willing and eligible to undergo a Security Clearance check (SC level) upon starting their employment with the company.
To gain SC clearance you will normally need at least 5 years’ UK residency.
Degree level qualification or relevant experience
Significant experience as a Systems Engineer in MOD or defence-related projects.
An Engineering Chartership or equivalent relevant to the role
Benefits
At Sagentia Defence, we believe in rewarding our people and supporting their wellbeing. Alongside our competitive salaries we offer a comprehensive benefits package including, Company Profit Share Scheme, Generous Holiday Allowance with the ability to buy and sell holiday, Employee Assistance Programme, 24 Hour access to GP and Mental Health support along with access to hundreds of high street discounts, private healthcare provided by Bupa and more. As a consultancy our people are our biggest asset, and we aim to nurture and develop our staff to achieve their full potentialBefore You Apply
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