Principle Consultant - Systems and Supportability Engineering
Sagentia Defence has a track record of success, as a trusted partner to customers within highly regulated Government programmes. As a result, we are looking for a new Principal Consultant within our Systems & Supportability Engineering (S&SE) team.
The Head of Systems and Supportability Engineering will grow a team around them, and alongside other departments, to set strategy and deliver multi-disciplinary support to some of the most complex Government programmes.
The S&SE team manage requirements at all stages of the Systems Engineering lifecycle, including elicitation of capability/user requirements, generation/management of system requirements, testing and acceptance.
Responsibilities
The right applicant for this role will be someone who has a consultancy or Defence background, with the ability to work autonomously or within engineering and cross-functional teams. As a Principal Consultant you will be responsible for:
* Vision and Strategy: Assisting in setting the vision and strategy for the department in collaboration with the other capabilities.
* Team leadership: Motivating, coaching and managing the performance of team members.
* Capability Development: Developing and maintaining S&SE service offerings aligned to account demand signal and collaborating with other departments to ensure services are coherent across the business.
* Requirements Engineering and Management across all DLoDS
* Training and Development: Coaching people on the use of Systems Engineering and ILS tools and techniques.
* Business Development: Supporting Account Leads by writing technical approaches within bids and presenting to prospective customers.
* Technical Assurance: Working on projects, providing technical guidance and review to ensure project deliverables are of a high quality and meet customers’ expectations.
Requirements
* Firm understanding of requirements management across all Defence Lines of Development, with experience across Operating Domains.
* Positive, flexible and self-motivated attitude, and be keen to develop yourself and others within the team.
* Experience in Delivering Requirements Engineering, Integrated Logistical Support, MBSE, and Engineering Governance in a consultancy context.
* 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.)
* Experience of DOORS/Dimensions RM software to support requirements management.
* Understanding of modern SE approaches like MBSE.
* Understanding of complex system of system projects and programmes, especially with respect to integration activities and SoS performance setting and acceptance.
* Capability Development of new tools and techniques.
* Providing technical guidance and reviews to ensure project deliverables are of a high quality and meet customers’ expectations.
* Leading teams in a consultancy setting.
* Working within public sector with knowledge of government processes.
* Managing a variety of stakeholders both internally and externally.
* Contributing and leading successful bids/technical proposals.
Essential Requirements
* Existing right to live and work in the UK.
* 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.
* Degree level qualification or relevant experience
* Significant experience as a Systems Engineer in MOD or defence-related projects.
* An Engineering Chartership or equivalent relevant to the role
Benefits
You will be offered a competitive salary, bonus and benefits package.
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