Principal Systems Engineer IVV

Responsible for / Key responsibilities

• Responsible for assuring the Systems Engineering (in-process verification and validation) and delivery of conclusive evidence via System Integration, Verification and Validation (IV&V) processes and activities.

• Ensure the correctness and completeness of work products and solutions, from the requirements phase onwards, executing an evidence creation strategy in order to progressively gain internal and external acceptance.

• Create and maintain IV&V artefacts such as Strategies, Plans, Procedures, Compliance Matrices and Reports, to progressively assure the desired outcomes.

• Carry out IV&V responsibilities in accordance with IV&V processes and industry practices, so that internal, qualification and acceptance events are completed to an agreed level of maturity.

• Lead the cross-discipline development of any supporting test equipment/rigs/fixtures, via a lifecycle approach; creating requirements, support the design, development, testing of and maintenance, enabling the associated development and in-service test events.

• Responsible for all safety and security aspects relating to IV&V events and facilities used by the project.

• Actively participates, and is a key stakeholder, at engineering design reviews and project gates/reviews, owning the preparation, delivery and resulting actions of TRR.

• To support the Qualification activities, to include in house and external test houses.

• Responsible for the utilisation of any external IV&V facilities/test houses, i.e. organising interoperability testing, collaboratively developing test harnesses/fixtures etc. with test houses.

• Actively contributes to improving processes, tools and techniques that to increase the adoption, quality and efficiency of SE, IV&V engineering.

• Provides specialist knowledge and support to the wider engineering team.

• Exemplifies, leads, mentors and coaches IV&V to engineers and non-technical resources; sharing knowledge willingly and constructively to aid consistent application of IV&V principles, processes and methods.

• Manage security of information as defined in the Security Aspects and Government regulations.

• The role is expected to provide Line Management, Technical Management or Subject Matter Expert responsibilities:

o Line management of a team of systems engineers (2-6), responsible for their development, training and approval of the team's requests (e.g. annual leave etc.).

o Technical management of a team of systems discipline engineers (1-5) on a project, their tasking and being responsible for the quality of their technical delivery and adherence to schedule and budget.
o Subject Matter Expertise, and recognised as an expert in a specific subject matter, such as a specific product/technology/tooling/practice type or area.

Essential Qualifications / skills /requirements

• Has extant/recent SC security clearance

• Is flexible to travel within the UK to support external stakeholders, test houses and customers.

• Willing and able to obtain, and maintain, DV security clearance

• Degree or equivalent qualification in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or have applicable defence industry experience.

• Knowledge of Systems Engineering/V&V experience of solutions formed of Hardware, Software and Firmware components.

• Has designed and delivered special to type test equipment to meet the diverse requirements generated across multi-concurrent projects.

• Safety and security management for test environments including laboratories, able to build a business case to ensure that test environments are suitably available, safe & secure.

• Demonstrable experience of INCOSE/ISO 15288 Systems Engineering of complex solutions and delivered IV&V in accordance with ISO 29119.

Desirable Responsibilities

• To be familiar with environmental facilities and their operation under the guidance of environmental test team

• Assesses tasks to define Basis of Estimate costing for bid and change processes.

• Actively reviews professional publications; champions Systems Engineering/IV&V industry standards; active member and promotes related professional organisations.

• Experienced in the implementation of test facilities/equipment in relation to ISO 17025.

Desirable Qualifications / skills /requirements

• INCOSE member - ASEP/CSEP

• IV&V/Test related certification/recognition.

• Experienced in test automation, frameworks and marriage with manual testing for an overall test campaign.

• Environmental, EMC, EMI, TEMPEST etc design for and/or test experience

• Modelling to understand test scope, test environment requirements and/or to validate.

• Scripting languages: JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Perl, Bash, Rest, MySQL.

• Development approaches, iterative, incremental, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD), hybrid and similar models.