Architecture - Principal Systems Engineer

The Role:

As a Principal Systems Engineer specialising in Systems Architecture, you will play a leading role in defining complex solutions, influencing strategic customer decisions, and driving the evolution of our Systems Engineering capability. At Synoptix, our Principal Systems Engineers do more than deliver projects—they help shape the future of Systems Engineering across industry, our customers, and the profession itself.

You will work closely with customers across our sectors, helping them tackle their most challenging engineering problems. Beyond project delivery, you will play an active role in advancing the Systems Engineering profession. In addition to our close engagement with the Institute for Systems Engineering (IfSE), you will contribute to and lead internal and external working groups focused on developing best practice, tackling emerging challenges, and shaping the future direction of the discipline.

Within Synoptix, you will be a recognised technical leader and mentor, inspiring and developing the next generation of engineers while championing Digital Engineering approaches and modern Systems Engineering practices. As part of our agile and empowered culture, you will have the freedom to influence strategy, engage directly with senior stakeholders, identify new opportunities, and turn innovative ideas into practical outcomes for our customers and the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Interacting with MBSE working groups within industry
• Collaborate with IfSE, academia, industry partners and professional bodies
• Develop thought leadership through formal papers, white papers, conference presentations and industry insights
• Work alongside leading universities and research organisations, to help bridge the gap between academic innovation and practical application
• Delivering technical consultant expertise on a variety of customer projects from air to sub-surface
• Supporting Systems Engineering activity across the design lifecycle
• Development of proposals and statements of work
• Engaging with customer representative to identify opportunities, and seeing them through to delivery

Key Skills:

We are interested in any of the following skills, but they are not essential for you to apply:

• Facilitating good Systems Engineering practices
• Application of Digital Engineering methodologies
• Systems Engineering Architecture
• Systems Thinking
• Requirements Capture, Management and Analysis
• Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
• Systems Integration
• Verification and Validation
• Successful delivery of SE documentation
• Knowledge of supporting toolsets (e.g. DOORs, JAMA, JIRA, Enterprise Architect, Cameo Systems Modeller, Rhapsody, MATLAB, Simulink)

Benefits:

• Discretionary Company Bonus – At the end of each financial year, based on company / personal performance
• 25 Days holiday not including bank holidays with the option to buy/sell up to 5 days
• Flexible hybrid working arrangements
• Continuous professional development including incentives
• Access to online Udemy training facility to support grade specific learning pathways
• Electric car scheme
• Bike to work scheme
• Private health care (AXA)

About Us:

Synoptix was formed in 2011 to provide engineering solutions across various technical industries. We have evolved from a company established and focussed on Systems Thinking principles into an Engineering company providing solutions and services across three key capabilities: Systems, Cyber & InfoSec and Technology.

What makes us stand out is how we engage in the crossover areas between these disciplines, combining our strengths to provide a truly bespoke, market leading approach. Our engineering competence is bolstered by expertise in commercial, legal, financial and resource, thereby ensuring that we uphold excellence in our product and service offerings.

Please note that due to the nature of our projects we can only accept Sole UK National candidates who will need to be eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance.

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