Title: Principal Systems Engineer
Locations: Flexible on location (Warminster)

Summary of Role:

Raytheon UK are part of Raytheon Technologies, one of the largest aerospace, intelligence services providers, and defence manufacturers in the world. We are seeking to expand our Defence development team which is focussed on the development and integration of strategic systems for the UK Defence market. These systems address a diverse range of military intelligence and planning needs, and focus on information integration, processing, and visualisation in a geospatial context. Raytheon follow a DevOps lifecycle approach and an Agile development methodology utilising SAFe and SCRUM as core methods. The role will serve within the Information Exploitation section of the C4I business unit. The holder of this role will need to possess or be capable of possessing SC clearance with an option to increasing to DV in support of future roadmap development.

Main Duties:

Work as a Principle Systems Engineer within an Agile software delivery team, involved in deployments across different disciplines to add value to the business area.

This is an opportunity to innovate and try new things; to fearlessly challenge and question; to learn and progress in an inclusive and supportive culture; to be rewarded for the vital contribution you make.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Works with cross-functional teams and various stakeholders, including customers, end users, business analysts, development team, and user enablement
• Define strategy and be central to assuring services
• Regularly collaborate and find agreement with senior internal and external stakeholders, providing direction and challenge
• Be proactive in identifying problems and translating these into non-technical descriptions that can be widely understood
• Undertake structured analysis of technical issues, translating this analysis into technical designs that describe a solution
• Identify opportunities to collaborate and reuse components, communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Mentor and coach junior colleagues
• Lead the product functional design process based on an intimate knowledge of the users and technology
• Support the Product Owner by, prioritises and maintains the sprint backlog, balancing the requirements of stakeholders
• Responsible for maximising the value of the product by creation of and management of the detailed features and stories
• Responsible for the creation and ownership of user stories for the development team and communicates the voice of the customer in the Scrum process.
• Requirement analysis and management - from capturing customer requirements to developing requirement sets leading to actionable outcomes and value for the customer
• Systems architecture and analysis - defining system architectures, analysing, and reporting on technical data together with an assessment of risk
• Systems design and development - working both internally and closely with the existing strategic partnerships to develop technical solutions
• Translates product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria

Candidate Requirements:

Essential skills

• Previous experience of working in an Agile delivery team and producing and deploying applications in a production environment through a CI/CD pipeline.

Desirable skills of interest

• Degree in STEM subject
• Experience in Systems Engineering across the lifecycle of a software product
• Proven track record of delivering solutions with a customer-first mind set
• Established background in systems engineering technical standards, principles, theories, concepts, and techniques
• Experience in authoring and managing requirements with industry standard toolsets (e.g. DOORS)
• Understanding of software development lifecycles and the impact these have on requirements management
• Experience of planning, estimating, and defining engineering tasks
• Knowledge of development of Systems of Systems
• Awareness of TOGAF

Good behaviours

• Good interpersonal skills for customer and partner liaison
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Good time management, organisation, and prioritisation skills
• An inquisitive mind and a desire to promote innovation
• A desire to learn and constantly expand your horizons
• Ability to work closely with others in a small team
• Ability to work under pressure
• High degree of initiative and flexibility
• Willingness to travel if required

About Raytheon UK

With facilities in Broughton, Waddington, Glenrothes, Harlow, Gloucester, Manchester and a presence across customer sites together with remote working practices. Raytheon UK is invested in the British workforce and the development of UK technology. Across the country Raytheon UK employs over 2,000 people and supports 8,000 jobs. As a prime contractor and major supplier to the UK Ministry of Defence, Raytheon continues to invest in research and development, supporting innovation and technological advances across its core mission areas Weapons & Sensors, and Cyber, Space & Training.

Raytheon UK is a landed company, part of the Raytheon Technologies organisation and sits within the Raytheon Intelligence & Space business.

About Raytheon Technologies

Raytheon Technologies Corporation is an aerospace and defence company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises four industry-leading businesses - Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Raytheon Missiles & Defence. It's 195,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cyber security. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Raytheon Career Development:

Raytheon has a wealth of resources available to help you develop your career from the moment you join. Activities range from on-line learning modules, to external training and support for taking professional qualifications relevant to your role.

Standard Benefits:

• 25 days holiday (increasing to 27 days) + statutory public holidays.
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution).
• 6 times salary 'Life Assurance'.
• Flexible Benefits scheme.
• Discretionary Bonus scheme.
• Enhanced family friendly policies.
• 37hr standard working week, with an early finish on Fridays whilst operating a 'Hybrid Working Model'*
• Canteen facilities are available at Harlow & Glenrothes sites. Manchester & Gloucester offer free snacks & drinks (hot & cold).

* Our Hybrid Working Model supports flexible working arrangements on a formal or informal arrangement, considering both location and/or working hours, subject to business and customer needs. Please highlight any flexible requirements to our Recruitment team to explore the opportunities.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

At Raytheon UK, we're committed to be building a workforce that represents the true diversity of Britain where all of our colleagues feel enabled to deliver the best work of their lives. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer who selects the very best candidates for the job. We truly value the diversity of our workforce work hard to create an inclusive environment where our colleagues can bring the unique skills, experiences and ideas to the table to help us grow our business, create innovative solutions and develop our people.

Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) act as the eyes and ears into the community they represent and support us in building a truly inclusive business. Our ERGs are open to all colleagues, regardless of background, and include: Raytheon Women's Network, RayPride, Young Employees Success Network, Raytheon Veterans Network, Raytheon Alliance for Diverse Abilities and RayBAME.

We're also delighted to have been recognised as a Gold Award Employer as part of the HM's Armed Forces Covenant and the Human Rights Campaign's 2021 Corporate Equality Index as a 'best place to work for LGBTQ Equality'.

All applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other characteristic.

If you need us to make any adjustments to support you during our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to help.