Lead Systems Engineer- EW and Sensor Toolset Architectures
The Lead Systems Engineer will need to have experience of being a product owner and familiar with Electronic Warfare (EW) systems and architecture design. The Lead Systems Engineer should have significant experience of being accountable for design decisions and development prioritisation, as well as leading teams to deliver user-centric software systems within an agile development lifecycle.
The right person will have extensive experience of full lifecycle systems engineering, with key focus on architecture design, requirements elicitation, definition and decomposition, as well as evidence-based compliance to achieve certification and acceptance by internal and external assessors. The role inherently requires a strong aptitude for problem solving and an ability to understand complex interdependencies, as well as managing potentially conflicting inputs from multiple stakeholder groups.
Key Responsibility Areas
- Apply your knowledge of EW operational support products and detection/countermeasure systems in the role of product owner within an agile scrum development team
- Create the next generation of EW operational planning, programming, and analysis toolsets to support in-service and future combat aircraft
- Elicit, influence and anticipate future user needs and requirements with which to guide the product design and develop the system architecture
- Develop operational use cases to help define and shape system requirements, design, and use
- Assist the Project Chief Engineer in developing a product roadmap to define both a strategic vision and near-term goals within development sprint cycles, aligned to the vision
- Create and prioritise user stories within a backlog list to be executed within sprint cycles, considering any risks or dependencies that might inform the order of development
- Actively engage with the development team through all agile planning and review stages
- Communicate key messages and metrics to relevant stakeholders
- Assess system design compliance and traceability against user and system requirements
- Create/review/sign-off engineering specifications, reports and presentations
Skills, Qualifications & Knowledge Required
- Experience of being an agile product owner; managing a prioritising backlog items.
- Understanding of airborne EW detection / countermeasure system and Radar system CONOPS.
- Knowledge of mission planning, mission data generation, and mission analysis.
- Experience of agile systems / software agile development for product delivery to external customers.
- Performed the role of agile product owner, or equivalent level of design authority.
- Experience of leading design / delivery teams to develop complex, technical solutions in accordance with plans and processes.
- Highly proficient at requirements elicitation, negotiation and definition.
- Experience of engineering gate reviews and the associated assessment of design compliance.
- Self-motivated with an aptitude for problem solving and driving difficult issues to conclusion.
- Experience of working with a variety of internal and external stakeholders of varying seniorities.
