Job Title: Systems Engineer - Requirements and Acceptance Engineer
Location: Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £46, - £54, Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Fixed Term Contract 12 months
Role ID: SF
Shape the Future of National Defence Solutions
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Systems Engineer – Requirements and Acceptance Engineer at any of our main UK locations, near your nearest commutable town.
The role
As a Systems Engineer – Requirements and Acceptance Engineer, you’ll be a key player in a high-tempo solution development team, helping to design and document winning proposals for national defence tenders. This is a unique opportunity to apply your expertise in requirements engineering to shape complex, integrated solutions that make a real-world impact.
Day-to-day you’ll be:
1. Leading the requirements management plan on behalf of the solution lead
2. Managing engineering change processes and ensuring configuration control
3. Supporting the creation and review of requirements documentation across the lifecycle
4. Building acceptance and test cases linked to verification and validation matrices
5. Collaborating with technical experts to ensure traceability and compliance
This role is full time, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with hybrid working patterns available. While you can be based anywhere in the UK, you’ll need to be flexible to travel for meetings and collaboration across the country.
Essential experience of the Systems Engineer - Requirements and Acceptance Engineer:
6. Experience across the full engineering lifecycle (V-Model)
7. Expertise in requirement extraction, assessment, and decomposition
8. Familiarity with requirements database systems and acceptance documentation
9. Ability to communicate across technical disciplines including systems, software, and hardware
10. Experience working within a System of Systems architecture environment
Qualifications for the Systems Engineer - Requirements and Acceptance Engineer:
11. Relevant engineering qualifications (HNC or equivalent experience)
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at .
What we offer
12. Generous holiday allowance
13. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
14. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
15. Employee share scheme
16. Employee shopping savings portal
17. Payment of Professional Fees
18. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
19. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
20. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
21. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.