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About the Role

Amentum is seeking proactive and collaborative professionals to join their growing team. You will work on diverse projects for clients in Critical National Infrastructure, National Security, Defence, and Nuclear market sectors, developing solutions that address critical challenges and support digitalization and security. The role involves shaping complex Defence systems from concept through design and delivery, ensuring robust solutions for mission-critical capabilities.

Responsibilities

Elicit, analyze, and manage stakeholder and system requirements, ensuring traceability across the lifecycle.
Develop system architectures and design artifacts, including functional, logical, and physical views.
Contribute to the development of interface definitions and integration considerations across systems.
Collaborate with architects, developers, and integration teams to ensure coherent and feasible system designs.
Support verification and validation planning, ensuring requirements are testable and aligned to acceptance criteria.
Support operations in an in-build environment and provide guidance on system installation.
Support verification and validation activities to ensure progressive acceptance through the lifecycle.
Contribute to systems engineering documentation and governance artifacts in line with MOD and industry standards.

Requirements

Degree qualified in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Good communication skills, able to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Ability to work collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams.
Experience working within multi-disciplinary teams on complex programmes.
Proven experience as a Systems Engineer within Defence environments with a strong understanding of combat systems principles and lifecycle models (e.g. V-model, Agile, hybrid approaches).
Experience working across the systems engineering lifecycle, with a focus on requirements, architecture, and design phases.
Experience in requirements engineering, including elicitation, analysis, and management.
Ability to develop system architecture artifacts and design documentation, with an understanding of system integration concepts, interfaces, and dependencies.
Experience supporting integration and V&V activities, with an understanding of how designs translate into testable systems.
Awareness of MOD frameworks and governance environments.
Understanding of requirements management and modelling tools (e.g. DOORS, SparxEA).

Skills

Systems Engineering
Combat Systems
Requirements Engineering
Architecture Development
Design Documentation
System Integration
Verification and Validation (V&V)
MOD Frameworks
DOORS
SparxEA

Location

Hybrid
Flexible working hours, patterns and locations

Work Type

Hybrid
Flexible working hours, patterns and locations

Experience Level

All levels

Education Level

Degree qualified in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related discipline (or equivalent experience)

Benefits

Free single medical cover
Digital GP service
Enhanced parental leave pay
Free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes
Reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships

About the Company

Amentum has tackled the world’s toughest challenges to deliver agile and steadfast solutions to the U.S. government and its allies.
With over 50,000 employees on all seven continents and in more than 60 countries, Amentum delivers a broad range of operational support services to meet the critical needs of our clients.
Headquarters are in Chantilly, VA.
Find us online at https://www.amentum.com/

Equal Opportunity

As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy.
We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.
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