System Engineer

Title: Systems Engineer
Conditions – Contract, Hybrid working
Location: Stratford

We are looking for a skilled and motivated Systems Engineer to join our team, where you will be at the forefront of designing, implementing, and maintaining complex systems that support the operations of a leading transportation company. In this critical role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions that enhance performance, reliability, and efficiency across a variety of systems. Your expertise will directly contribute to ensuring the technology infrastructure continues to run smoothly and evolves in line with the growing demands of the networks. If you’re ready to tackle engineering challenges in a fast-paced, high-impact environment, we want to hear from you.
Details of the role:
• To be the embedded Systems Engineer into any of our existing major programme, e.g. Piccadilly Line Upgrade programme, Bakerloo Line upgrade Programme or TRAM train replacement programme, etc.
• To act as a key steering voice in the programme, ensuring that systems thinking is at the forefront of decision-making.
• Responsible for defining and delivering the Systems Engineering deliverables for the programme
• Organise and support Gate reviews in relation with the specific programme / project.
• Assist in the management and closing out items in the programme Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies, Decisions, Opportunities (RAIDDO) register.
• Contributing to the overall requirements management, their apportionment to each sub-programme and their compliance.
• Support the development of the V&V programme of work and assurance evidence gathering for closing out of all the programme requirements.
• Support the development of the Physical and Geographical Architectures for the various migration stages for the programme.
• Support the management of the programme interface registers.
• Support the production of each System Design and its review and baseline process.
• Produce the relevant and required assurance case / documentation to support the various programme/projects lifecycle phases/stages.

Skills:
• Ability to understand complex systems and processes
• Ability to elicit, analyse, level and mange requirements e.g. stakeholder, user, technical
• Ability to transform requirements into specifications, architectures, and system breakdown

Knowledge:
• General understanding of systems engineering management
• Good domain knowledge of the relevant transport and/ or infrastructure system
• Awareness of requirements management techniques
• Awareness of specification and visualisation of complex systems and processes
• Awareness of systems engineering sub-disciplines: system architecting and modelling, interface management and requirements/configuration management
• Knowledge of whole life cost analysis

Experience:
• Working experience of the systems engineering sub-disciplines, e.g. system architecting and modelling, interface management and requirements/configuration management
• Experience in planning and applying systems engineering activities
• Experience in applying systems engineering methods and tools