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Principal Systems Engineer

Job Posted: 5 hours ago

Salary: £ Competitive
Job Type: Contract
Location: Portsmouth, Hampshire

Expire in: a month

Job Description

Role: Principal Systems Engineer(Technical Lead)

Location: Portsmouth(Predominantly onsite with occasional remote working )

Duration: 6 months

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The Role
 As a Principal System Engineer, you will be leading a team of Engineers to deliver the required STEATS (Synthetic Test Environment and Analysis Tools Service) capabilities in support of the NCSISS (Naval Combat Systems Integration Support Services) contract.

Day-to-day, you'll play a key role in shaping and implementing the strategy to ensure the STEATS offering is well positioned to meet customer needs going forward. You will also be responsible for leading a cross-technical team of systems engineers, providing both day-to-day management and strategic technical leadership. You will work on simulations and tools that enable combat systems engineers to perform their roles effectively, combining hands-on technical work with leadership responsibilities.

Your responsibilities will include:

Shaping and guiding future strategy for the STEATS offering

Providing technical support in terms of Technical Delivery Plans

Technical management of specific, delegated projects

Being the technical point of contact for our customers

Essential experience of the Principal Systems Engineer: 

Strong experience within Systems Engineering, Networks, IT would be preferable

Previous maritime experience would be an advantage

Understanding of the Technical Assurance process

Knowledge of computer network architectures, protocols and analysis including client/server, TCP/IP, UDP, NTP and Wireshark

Essential qualifications for the Principal Systems Engineer:

Degree level expertise encompassing systems engineering, computer science, physics or similar technical discipline with post degree experience (or equivalent)

Full professional membership of a relevant body or similar accreditation

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 and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you. 

This role is 37 hours per week based at our Portsmouth site. Hybrid working patterns are available

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