Senior Systems Engineer

Job Title:              Senior Systems Engineer
Location:              Flexible Location + Hybrid Working Arrangements 
Compensation:    £45,000 - £59,500 + Benefits
Role Type:            Full time / Permanent
Role ID:                SF63194

Engineering the future of defence mobility

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Systems Engineer.

The role

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will take the lead on systems engineering activities that are critical to delivering complex vehicle systems across their full lifecycle. It is an exciting opportunity to shape system architectures, solve engineering challenges, and contribute to projects aligned with national security and defence. Your work will directly support the successful delivery of cutting-edge equipment that helps protect people and infrastructure. It is a role that offers challenge, growth and the chance to develop your expertise across multiple engineering domains

Day to day you will be required to

• Develop system architectures and interface definitions to support integration across mechanical, electrical, software and supportability domains
• Define system requirements and generate product breakdown structures
• Plan and execute verification and validation activities including test planning and acceptance criteria
• Conduct trade studies and system level analyses to support key design decisions
• Identify and manage technical risks and issues using structured problem solving approaches

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and can be delivered from various locations including Bristol, Plymouth and Walsall alongside home working arrangements. 

Essential experience of the Senior Systems Engineer:

• Good level of systems engineering experience
• Experience of leading systems engineering activities
• Excellent knowledge of systems architecture
• Background in automotive and or defence industry advantageous

Qualifications for the Senior Systems Engineer:

• HNC or HND or Degree in a relevant engineering subject

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer 

• Generous holiday allowance 
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme 
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave 
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance. 

We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 12/02/2026

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