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From the employer's careers site First seen 5 Nov 2026

Systems Engineer

Salary

£47,600-£61,000 per year

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Description

Leidos UK & EUROPE is seeking a Systems Engineer to join their team. As a Systems Engineer, you will have a full understanding of the principles of systems engineering and prior experience on a major programme involving accepting and integrating deliveries from suppliers.

You will be responsible for working with customers and suppliers to execute Systems Engineering activities across the full lifecycle, with a specific focus on Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).

Key Responsibilities:

  • Working with operational stakeholders, technology suppliers and architects to refine system and sub-system requirements and acceptance criteria
  • Allocation of requirements to lower-level components, conducting technical derivation analysis as required
  • Modelling of functional and non-functional requirements and scenarios using MBSE and architectural framework approaches
  • Modelling operational, business and system designs & behaviours within architectural views
  • Managing compliance assessments at system and lower levels
  • Maintaining the high-level design and overseeing development of lower-level designs
  • Producing detailed engineering artefacts such as High and Low Level Designs, Interface Control Documents (ICDs) / Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Compliance Reports
  • Preparing for and delivering milestone technical reviews and the associated work product deliverables
  • Managing the technical backlog and the content of associated releases

Required Skills:

  • Strong experience with systems modelling tools (e.g. NoMagic Cameo), Architectural Frameworks (e.g. TOGAF) and Languages (e.g. SysML)
  • Strong knowledge of requirements and user scenario development in both text-based and model-based approaches
  • Success in working within mission-critical systems integration programmes
  • Ability to work with a number of stakeholders and suppliers, working across organisational boundaries as appropriate
  • Experience of developing system behavioural diagrams, modelling interfaces and developing models to encapsulate functional & non-functional requirements and designs
  • Demonstrable successes within the System Engineering environment
  • Excellent customer-facing skills, including being able to ingest large volumes of requirements and information developing clear understanding of customer hot buttons and needs
  • Understanding designing / delivering systems in a public cloud environment

Benefits:

  • Contributory Pension Scheme
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
  • Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
  • Flexible Working Scheme

Clearance Requirements:

  • Clearance to Start BPSS
  • Clearance for Role SC
  • Willingness to undergo SC or DV clearance dependent upon the security requirements for the role

Skills

Required

  • systems modelling tools
  • Architectural Frameworks
  • SysML
  • requirements development
  • mission-critical systems integration
  • system behavioural diagrams
  • public cloud environment

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Farnborough-Hampshire-UK/Systems-Engineer_R-00195098

Apply on Leidos UK & EUROPE