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Senior systems engineer

Bristol (City of Bristol)
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Systems engineer
Posted: 17 August
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Systems Engineer requirement with Sagentia Defence.

* Website - https://sagentia.com/defence/
* JD - https://careers.sagentia.com/en/postings/12003de5-dfc7-4982-9b6a-4f805c1c4577
* Salary – up to £65k (ideally looking at around £55k)
* Location – Bristol (willing to be in 3 days per week)
* Security Clearance – UKSC (must have lived in the UK for last 5 years)
* 1st stage Teams, 2nd Stage short Teams with HR Jamie, 3rd Onsite with manager Andrew. Able to start ASAP.

As aSystems Engineer, you’ll bring a blend of technical expertise, strategic thinking, and hands-on experience. Ideally, you will have:

* 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.)
* Comprehension of Defence Lines of Development, and how they can drive requirements,
* Knowledge of operational environments, including understanding the challenges and impacts of the following: geography, climate, media and information, population, urbanisation or cyber.
* Experience of DOORS/Dimensions RM software to support requirements management.
* Understanding of modern SE approaches like MBSE.

If you are interested in applying for this role you must meet the following criteria:

* Candidates must have an existing right to live and work in the UK.
* Candidates will need to undergo an internal BPSS check prior to gaining site access.
* Candidates will also need to 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.

We need a full lifecycle Systems Engineer, full V lifecycle. See phases of lifecycle below as we discussed. If you don’t understand what the candidate does, ask them. They’ll love to tell you. BPSS OR SC cleared, 5 years in UK, UK Nationality,

For this role – Not all requirements management. Needs to be IBM DOORS, not rail experience, not from expliotion, Poach from Supercat, Thalis, Quinatq, Avionics

This link may also be helpful - https://www.jamasoftware.com/requirements-management-guide/systems-engineering/what-is-systems-engineering/

Go through the Boolean we have created on Sourcebreaker (below) and even if people aren’t right or have salary expectations too high, still speak with them. Anyone outstanding I will try and spec out, anyone too senior or not looking, might know someone and get them added to Vincere and tag them up

("Systems Engineer" OR "System Engineer" OR "Systems Engineering" OR "System Engineering") AND ("V lifecycle" OR "v-lifecycle" OR MBSE OR "Model Based Systems Engineering" OR "Model Based System Engineering" OR "M.B.S.E" OR "Requirements Management" OR Requirements OR Requirement OR "IBM Doors" OR "D.O.O.R.S" OR "V&V" OR Ivvq OR IVV OR Integration OR Validation OR "SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE" OR "Systems Design" OR "System Design" OR "Sub-system" OR "SUB-SYSTEMS" OR Testing OR Test OR "Weapons Engineering" OR "Weapons Engineer") AND (Defence OR BAE OR Thales OR Selex OR QinetiQ OR Babcock OR Lockheed OR MBDA OR DSTL OR Atkins OR "Marshall Aerospace" OR Boeing OR "PA Consulting" OR Raytheon OR AWE OR "General Dynamics" OR "DE&S" OR Leidos OR AtkinsRealis OR "GE Aviation" OR SII OR Supacat OR "ELBIT SYSTEMS" OR ESUK OR "Infinity Systems Engineering" OR whitetree OR "Turner And Townsend" OR "Frazer-Nash" OR "Frazer Nash" OR MOD OR "Ministry Of Defence" OR "SC Clearance" OR "SC Cleared" OR "DV Cleared" OR "DV Clearance" OR BPSS OR "Baseline Clearance" OR Ukeo OR "uk eyes only" OR NATO OR SDA OR "Submarine Delivery Agency")

Key Questions

* Do you hold security clearance? If so, what level of clearance and who holds this? Is it transferrable and when does it expire? – please tag up on Vincere
* Are you a sole British national or dual national? If dual, what is your other nationality and how long have you held your British passport? 5 Years in UK?
* Where is the Systems Engineering lifecycle are your key/core strengths (I.E. Requirements, design, integration for example)? – please then tag them up appropriately on Vincere
* Where else are you interviewing? (if they don’t want to answer, say it’s not to be nosey its so we don’t call you back about the same opportunities or cause any duplications)
* Have they been spoken to about TP Group/ Sagentia/ Sagentia Defence previously? If so, when and did they apply?
* If they’re interviewing else, what stage? Is it perm or contract? Who is hiring manager?
* If this isn’t quite right for you, do you know any other good systems engineers that I should be speaking with that are in the market or potentially interested?
* What is your experience of Model based systems engineering?
* Notice period?

Key Words / Acronyms –

* BPSS SC DV (5 years current UK resident)
* MBSE Module Based Systems Engineer.
* ‘V’ Lifecycle – SubSystems, "V&V", Ivvq, IVV
* Side 1/Left (Requirements, Operating, functionality, challenges, safety, security, testing, timeframe, design, trials, testing, modelling, simulation) Design Phase and verification – IBM DOORS
* – Side 2/Right (Inspections, Integrations, real life testing on product or software, deployment ie handing over to customer- Testing phase and Validation
* MOD – Ministry of defence – experience in Air, Sea, Land, Military or Marines
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