About the job

Job Description

Your Impact

At Leonardo, we’re offering a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Systems Engineer to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Through‑Life Services for the UK’s next‑generation combat aircraft. Step into a position where your System engineering expertise and collaborative mindset will directly influence the future of UK defence capability.

As part of a dynamic and highly integrated team, you’ll contribute to the development of innovative Through‑Life Service solutions, working at the forefront of a cutting‑edge combat air programme. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering specialists, international industry partners and wider stakeholders to influence early support design decisions, shape advanced support concepts, and deliver sustainable, high‑value solutions that will underpin front‑line operations for decades to come.

If you thrive on complex challenges, value deep collaboration and want your work to have tangible operational impact, this is where you can truly make a difference.

What You’ll Do As a Senior Systems Engineer

• Identify and engage a complete set of stakeholders for the Through‑Life Services (TLS) element of the programme, and support the development of an effective stakeholder engagement and communication strategy.
• Elicit, analyse and mature stakeholder needs—prioritising, balancing and trading off interests and influence to define optimal capability solutions.
• Contribute to the creation of concepts and architectures for the Through‑Life Support solution, collaborating closely with product design teams and functional SMEs (e.g., supportability, obsolescence, data).
• Conduct system functional analysis, modelling and architecture development/refinement as required.
• Ensure effective application of appropriate tools and techniques for problem definition within the team.
• Support the definition and establishment of Use Cases to inform Functional Analysis and help derive the logical architecture of the solution.
• Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure alignment between the TLS architecture and wider programme elements.
• Identify and escalate emerging issues, contribute to risk assessment activities, and help shape mitigation strategies and opportunity exploitation.
• Coordinate multi‑stakeholder inputs and deliver clear, high‑quality reports and presentations for customers and industry partners.
• Build and maintain strong relationships across and beyond the line of business, actively promoting best practice adoption