Principal Systems Engineer

at  Leonardo UK Ltd

THE OPPORTUNITY

At Leonardo, we have a fantastic new opportunity for a Principal Systems Engineer to join our team within the Customer Support and Service Solutions (CS3) line of business. The CS3 line of business operates across the UK, providing innovative and invaluable support solutions to our customers. We help to ensure the availability of front-line capability wherever and whenever required.
This role will be part of the Through-Life Services (TLS) team as part of Team Tempest – working on the next-generation combat aircraft, operating at the cutting edge of technological innovation and securing the UK’s position as a global leader in combat air. We are looking for someone who thrives when working in the problem space, is good at drawing out and understanding stakeholder needs, as well as looking at different concepts for creating optimal value solutions for both the customer and the business.
TLS consists of everything needed to keep the systems operating effectively throughout their life, and aims to develop a more capable, cost effective and sustainable solution, seeking to influence the early design of the equipment as well as provide the through-life solution framework. This includes all of the Integrated Logistics Support (ILS), solution management, continuous improvement, equipment upgrades, spares, repairs, training, supportability, failure prediction, equipment health status monitoring, support solution architecture, knowledge and information management. These future solutions are expected to be highly dependent on information systems, use of synthetics and digital analytics, including Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
In this role you will work closely with both the internal Leonardo teams and with external stakeholders, including our national industry partners and the MoD, giving you the opportunity to influence and optimise the holistic solution.

• Supporting the identification of a complete set of stakeholders for the through life services element of the programme, and supporting the creation of a stakeholder engagement and communication strategy.
• Establishing and maturing stakeholder needs, associating/attributing priority, interest, influence and trading-off needs to determine optimum capability to solve stakeholders’ problems
• Supporting the determination of a solution strategy, including brownfield or greenfield methodologies. Identifying and exploiting existing Leonardo services and solutions in order to ensure existing technology, processes, and subject matter expertise is re-used.
• Supporting the creation of the concepts and architecture for the through life support solution, taking input from the product design teams, as well as the functional subject matter experts (including supportability, obsolescence, data)
• Carrying out system functional analysis, modelling and architecture development / refinement as required
• Supporting the identification and establishment of Use Cases to perform Functional Analysis to help define the logical architecture of the solution.
• Working closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure architecture alignment with other elements of the programme.
• Ensuring the application of appropriate tools / techniques for problem definition by the team
• Escalating emerging issues and levels of risk and helping define opportunities and risk mitigation options
• Using the output of Operational Analysis (OA) to improve the solution design / requirements
• Coordinating multi-stakeholder analysis into reports and presentations for delivery to customers and industry partners
• Fostering relationships and networks within and outside the line of business and actively identifying opportunities for adoption of best practice
• Developing, coaching, mentoring, teaching, and upskilling other engineers, particularly in the problem definition domain, but also in the wider application of systems engineering.