Job Description

Job Title: System Engineer

Location: Christchurch. We’re offering hybrid working arrangements for this role – please speak with the recruiter for further details

Salary: up to £60,500 depending on skills and experience

What You’ll Be Doing

Analyse, define, evaluate, plan, and deliver systems to meet programme, business, and customer requirements
Apply engineering and architecture expertise to complex products, systems and process development
Building strong relationships with customers and stakeholders
Maintain a good understanding of competitors and suppliers’ products and services
Lead and inspire the team to continually raise the bar and push technology boundaries
Facilitate the evolution of innovation ideas, prototyping, development, productionising, delivery, support, and decommissioning
Support wider business vison and strategy to achieve business objectives

Essential

Your skills and experiences:

Strong understanding of IT
Experience in design, development and delivery of plans, processes, products, systems, and services
Cost/benefits analysis for appropriate technologies in areas such as compute, storage, and networking including security aspects
Understanding of:
MoD or Industry IT projects and programmes
Information Assurance (IA) and cyber security
Security architectures, COTS integration and virtualisation
Cloud-based solutions

Desirable

Professional registration, chartered status, or willingness to obtain

Benefits

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Team

You will be instrumental in developing new technology roadmaps, architecture and designs required to not only sustain an existing portfolio of IT cyber products, systems, and services but to innovate and develop new products of the future. This role will provide you with the opportunity to work with exciting projects and develop your career within defence business.

The Digital Intelligence Team

Customers increasingly demand information and technology solutions delivering advantage, communications, planning, operations, and cyber protection. C5ISR within Digital Intelligence is where we design and build cutting edge IT solutions for incorporation into products and services.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.”

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Job

Engineering

Primary Location

GB-ENG-DOR-Christchurch

Closing Date

12/May/23, 3:59:00 PM

Quick response

Required Knowledge

• K0004   Knowledge of cybersecurity and privacy principles.
• K0015   Knowledge of computer algorithms.
• K0024   Knowledge of database systems.
• K0044   Knowledge of cybersecurity and privacy principles and organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation).
• K0081   Knowledge of software development models (e.g., Waterfall Model, Spiral Model).

Required Skills

• S0024   Skill in designing the integration of hardware and software solutions.
• S0036   Skill in evaluating the adequacy of security designs.
• S0160   Skill in the use of design modeling (e.g., unified modeling language).
• S0367   Skill to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation).
• S0060   Skill in writing code in a currently supported programming language (e.g., Java, C++).

Required Abilities

• A0019  Ability to produce technical documentation.
• A0061  Ability to design architectures and frameworks.
• A0074  Ability to collaborate effectively with others.
• A0123  Ability to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation).