Principal systems integration engineer

Principal Systems Integration Engineer

Location: Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Principal Systems Integration Engineer

Location: Ashton Vale, County + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF73942

Shape the future of integrated defence technology

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Principal Systems Integration Engineer at our Ashton or Babcock Technology Centre site, near Bristol, Gloucestershire.

Join a team at the forefront of defence, aerospace and engineering, where innovation meets purpose. In our Mission Systems business, you'll help deliver cutting-edge capabilities that support national security and protect what matters most.

The role

As a Principal Systems Integration Engineer, you'll lead the integration of complex hardware and software systems, ensuring solutions are delivered at pace and to the highest standards. This role offers a unique blend of technical leadership, collaboration and innovation working across the entire project lifecycle from bid through to delivery and support.

You'll play a crucial role in delivering mission-critical capabilities, influencing engineering standards and driving quality across multidisciplinary teams, all while developing your own leadership and technical expertise in a fast-moving, high-impact environment.

Day-to-day, you'll be:

• Leading integration of hardware and software systems across complex projects
• Supporting bid activities, design development and end-to-end delivery lifecycle
• Coordinating and collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams and stakeholders
• Driving engineering governance, standards and quality while resolving technical challenges
• Overseeing and mentoring multidisciplinary teams, promoting innovation and continuous improvement

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2-3 days onsite, potentially up to 4-5 days onsite.

Essential experience

• Strong experience of integration of hardware and software
• Experience of BID support
• Strong stakeholder (both external and internal) management experience.
• Line management experience.

Qualifications

We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) /) security clearance for this role. To obtain Developed Vetting (DV in post.

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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) .

What we offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• 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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

Babcock

We're Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you'll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we're building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work‑life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header "Reasonable adjustments requirement". We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.