In-Service Senior Systems Engineer

Job Title: In-Service Senior Systems Engineer

Location: New Malden. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £54,000

What you’ll be doing:

• Coordinating reach-back activities to Suitably Qualified and Experienced Personnel (SQEP) in the product teams to resolve defects / technical queries reported by operationally deployed platforms
• Coordinating an integrated equipment (CMS – Combat Management, System SI – Shared Infrastructure, INE – Internal Networks Electronics) service programme, including Technology Refresh, which is coherent with adjacent programmes
• Ensuring strong engagement with the Customer Engineering community is maintained
• Overseeing the Product Safety and Security programmes to ensure all requirements are met/achieved
• Overseeing Product change within the programme through Project Change Control Boards (CCBS)
• Analysing defect trend data and associated Learning From Experience (LFE) to enable product/process improvement
• Delivering project convergence through establishing a common product approach

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Experience of the Systems / Software Engineering Lifecycle
• Experience in coordinating and facilitating technical programme issues across a diverse range of sub-teams
• A methodical approach to planning tasks and willing to display flexibility through response to change

Desirable:

• Experience of supporting a COTS/IT product in service, including obsolescence management
• Combat management system knowledge
• Knowledge of Royal Navy customers and the deployed platform environment

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The REDCODE team:

As part of the RECODE (Real Time Combat Systems Open Data Enablers) Team this role provides the opportunity to lead in the delivery of key technology and capability updates to the Royal Navy. The team are responsible for maintaining high levels of combat system equipment availability across multiple deployed platform classes, including the Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers and Type 45 Destroyers. It brings opportunities to experience all stages of the capability life cycle across a wide range of engineering disciplines, engage with many external customer and internal BAE Combat Systems organisations, and proactively embed new ways of working.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.)

that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 22nd May 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Interviews will take place week commencing the 9th of June 2025

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