Description
At Leidos Australia, our work goes beyond a job title. We design, build, operate and support the systems, services and capabilities that help protect and advance the Australian way of life.
As a Systems Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping and defining complex system capabilities within a collaborative, Agile delivery environment. Working closely with engineers, architects, cyber specialists and program stakeholders, you will help translate operational needs into robust system designs and requirements that support successful project outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the development and management of system and subsystem requirements, producing high-quality functional specifications and maintaining traceability using tools such as DOORS and Jazz.
- Apply Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) practices to analyse, model and define system behaviours, architectures and interfaces, leveraging tools such as Rhapsody to develop activity, behavioural and other system models.
- Facilitate workshops and engagement sessions with customers and stakeholders to capture use cases, validate requirements and align technical solutions with program objectives.
- Contribute to Agile delivery activities including user story development, sprint planning, estimation and continuous improvement, while ensuring cyber security and ISM control requirements are incorporated into system designs.
Benefits:
- Flex Your Way – Tailor work to your life with options including Life Days (up to 12 extra days off per year), part-time arrangements, job sharing, and compressed hours.
- Wellbeing That Matters – Free access to Headspace and MeQuilibrium, plus dedicated wellness spaces to support your mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing.
- Learn Without Limits – Access over 120,000 on-demand courses, alongside technical, project management, leadership, and professional development opportunities.
- Work That Makes an Impact – Contribute to nationally significant projects that matter, solve complex challenges, and accelerate your career through unique growth opportunities.
- Build Your Future – Whether you're deepening technical expertise or preparing for leadership, we'll invest in your development every step of the way.
Requirements:
- Experience developing and documenting functional specifications at system and subsystem level.
- Experience working within a Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) environment.
- Capability in system and subsystem modelling, including behavioural and activity diagrams.
- Hands-on experience with systems modelling tools, ideally IBM Rhapsody.
- Experience using requirements management and traceability tools such as DOORS and Jazz.
- Ability to facilitate stakeholder workshops and lead requirements elicitation activities, including use case development.
- Experience working within Agile delivery programs, including adaptive planning, user story development and story point estimation.
- Knowledge of cyber security principles, security hardening practices and ISM controls, with the ability to derive and manage cyber-related requirements.
- Experience using collaboration and delivery tools such as Jira and Confluence.
This role requires the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold an NV-1 security clearance.