Senior Systems Engineer Warton, Lancashire £81.05ph Umbrella 12 months Candidates must have valid and transferrable SC security clearance or be willing to undergo the security checks required for the role. We are looking for a Systems Engineer to help our client integrate, design, develop, manage and support the development of the Engineering Support System. As a Systems Engineer you will be part of a talented team of Engineers that demonstrate superb technical competency, provide mission critical solutions and ensure high levels of availability, performance and security. Key Responsibilities • The successful candidate will be required to perform tasks suitable to the internal level of this role. The role will contain, but will not be limited to, the following: • Collaborating with end users and other professionals to determine functional and non-functional requirements for features of the products • Implementing Proof of Concept (POC) representations for new functions. • Communicating concepts to the development and database teams • Developing, documenting and managing the system and sub-system design artefacts • Defining and managing interfaces between the integrated systems • Overseeing and ssuring the implementation of the design working collaborately with other teams • Developing well defined test requirements ensuring accurate functional testing • Contrubuting to Life Cycle Management (LCM) reviews and product safety strategies • Producing task estimation and work breakdown in accordance with project planning • Estimating strategies to deal with Obsolescence Providing technical guidance to Engineers Key Skillset Essential: • Experience of system and software application design and architecture principles • Understanding modelling techniques and tools (UML, Enterprise Architect, XML/XSD) • Experience of requirements analysis, elaboration and management tools (Rational DOORS) • Knowledge of software development and coding in various languages (C#, NET, Java etc) • Experience of using configuration and version control tools (Rational ClearCase, Git) Desirable: • Experience with database technologies (Oracle, SQL, etc) • Knowledge of ETL toolsets (Pentaho etc) • Understanding of middleware technologies (IBM MQ, RabbitMQ