Systems Architect

At Leonardo, we have a fantastic new opportunity for a Systems Architect.  Following Leonardo's sustained success in capturing significant domestic and international contracts in the Land CEMA domain, we have a fantastic opportunity for an individual who is ready to take on a System Architect Design Authority role.  The role is ideally suited to someone already working within an engineering team developing Electronic Warfare (EW) / Electronic Counter Measures (ECM) solutions and is eager for their next career challenge.

Leonardo has 45 years of experience in the counter-explosives domain and has previously provided jamming system to the UK’s counter-terror bomb disposal teams as well as UK Armed Forces, protecting vehicle crews and dismounted patrols from Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our recent successes draw on the company’s work in partnership with the UK Ministry of Defence to develop open standards such as Land CEMA (cyber-electromagnetic activities) Architecture and its associated standards.

In the past year, our Integrated Sensors & Protection business has secured significant contract success with the UK Ministry of Defence.  Leonardo will act as Systems Integrator for the development, delivery, acceptance, assurance, in-service support, and ever-greening spiral development of EW/ECM solutions in the Land domain for the next decade.

WHAT YOU’LL GET

• Flexible working: We offer our employees the time and flexibility they need to enjoy a balanced life through flexible hours and part time options
• Custom working: The role may be a mixture of home based and onsite
• Flexible benefits: Our company-funded approach to flexible benefits allows employees to make choices appropriate for them. Each employee has access to a wide choice of lifestyle, health and wellbeing options best suited to their individual lifestyle goals.
• Network groups : To support our ongoing commitment to diversity & inclusion, we have a range of network groups for colleagues :

Carers (employees caring for family or friends)

Enable (supporting people with disabilities)

Equalise (development of a gender balanced workforce)

Pride (promoting equality for all LGBTQ+ individuals)

Ethnicity Inclusion (developing a more ethnically based workforce)

Wellbeing (promoting & supporting employee wellbeing)

• Training: Free access to Coursera which provides more than 4,000 online courses
• Continuous Learning: You will be supported in your ongoing professional development through training and mentoring
• Investors in People: We are proud recipients of the Investors in People Silver Award
• Employee Assistance Programme: Providing free and confidential mental health support
• Annual leave: We offer 25 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays and 12 flexi days

You will be working with a talented and passionate integrated project team who are focused on delivering EOD ECM solutions to defeat existing and future threats, protecting both the public and Army users. The environment in which you work will be collaborative, supportive, and professional, and it will support you in achieving great results. You'll have access to world-class tools, systems, and processes with which you’ll develop even more innovative ideas and design solutions. Overall, this opportunity offers a rich environment for professional growth, the pursuit of excellence, and making a meaningful impact in the EOD ECM domain.

You will also:

• Engage with users, customers, government scientists and wider stakeholders to elicit system needs and constraints (Problem Definition)
• Produce candidate solution architectures which satisfy real world challenges
• Derive functional and behavioural aspects of systems, and derive robust and quality requirements at all levels
• Contribute to a clear Architectural Vision, supporting capability roadmaps, for development of products in the short, medium and long term
• Conduct and document tradespace analysis to inform key design decisions
• Apportion and budget performance across a system or system of systems
• Provide internal consultation and Systems Engineering expertise to support the project team
• Participate/lead internal coordination meetings, sub-contractor reviews and customer/external stakeholder working groups
• Support design reviews as a review stakeholder (presenter, reviewer and reviewee)
• Support the continued development of Architecting methodologies in the Systems Engineering Function
• Play an essential role in the broader Systems Engineering team, assisting with process tailoring and best practice in MBSE, Systems Architecture and Systems Engineering

We are looking for systems thinkers, who have:

• Experience in Systems Engineering and high level of competent in a cross domain engineering environment
• Experience in military electronics, Electronic Warfare and Electronic Counter Measure systems
• Understanding of Electronic Surveillance
• Experience across all engineering lifecycles
• Experience of MBSE frameworks, tools, languages and their application in the methodical decomposition of a system. Experience of Cameo System Modeler and MagicGrid framework desirable
• Awareness of Land CEMA Architecture, Open CPI and other related open standards
• Awareness or background in Radio Frequency (RF) engineering
• Awareness or background Digital Signal Processing (DSP)

Please note, you should not be deterred from applying if they do not meet all of the criteria above.