Senior Solution Engineer

• University degree in Systems Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Science or another relevant discipline
• 10 years of relevant professional engineering experience, including significant experience with complex ICT/CIS, defence, aerospace, telecommunications or other highly integrated technical systems. Experience in Systems Engineering and/or Solution Architecture applied to complex systems
• Professional working proficiency in English, including the ability to produce and review complex technical documentation
• Complex Systems Engineering
  • Significant experience in the architecture, design, integration, verification or lifecycle management of complex systems involving multiple technical domains
  • Demonstrated ability to translate operational or business needs into system requirements, architectures and implementable technical solutions
  • Experience defining and managing system boundaries; functional decomposition; interfaces; dependencies; constraints; non-functional requirements; system-level performance
• Technical Leadership
  • Experience as a Technical Lead, Lead Systems Engineer, Solution Architect, System Architect or equivalent senior engineering role. Experience technically coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams and SMEs
  • Ability to provide clear technical direction
  • Experience resolving technical disagreements and driving engineering decisions across organizational and technical boundaries
  • Significant experience integrating systems composed of multiple technologies, products or engineering disciplines
  • Strong understanding of system interfaces, dependencies and emergent behaviour
  • Experience identifying and resolving integration problems spanning multiple technical domains
  • Experience planning or supporting system integration, verification, validation and acceptance activities
  • Demonstrated ability to perform structured root-cause analysis Lifecycle Engineering / Product Ownership
  • Experience supporting complex systems after their transition into operational service
• Understanding of the relationship between:
  • design authority; configuration management; change management; obsolescence; technology refresh; technical debt; operational support; system evolution
• Experience assessing the system-level impact of changes to individual components, subsystems or services
• Broad technical understanding across ICT/CIS domains, rather than being specialists exclusively within one technology. Strong knowledge of several of the following areas is expected:
  • IP networking and routing; LAN/WAN architectures; network security and firewalls; compute and server infrastructure; virtualization and hyperconverged infrastructure; storage technologies; identity and access management; cybersecurity architectures; enterprise and infrastructure services; cloud and hybrid-cloud technologies; automation and orchestration; monitoring and management systems; telecommunications; SATCOM and/or radio communications; deployable or mobile ICT infrastructure.
• The candidate is not expected to be the SME in all these domains. However, they must have sufficient technical breadth to understand how these technologies interact
• Strong understanding of requirements engineering, including functional and non-functional requirements
• Ability to decompose complex systems into manageable subsystems and components while preserving understanding of the complete system
• Strong understanding of interfaces and Interface Control. Experience with requirements traceability from operational need through implementation and verification
• Understanding of architecture versus detailed design and the appropriate allocation of responsibilities between system-level and domain engineers
• Experience performing engineering trade-off analyses

DUTIES/ROLE:

• System and Solution Engineering
  • Analyse operational, functional & project requirements & translate them into implementable DCIS solutions
  • Define the overall technical solution and system architecture using the established DCIS Node, Module & Service taxonomies
  • Ensure that the resulting system delivers the required end-to-end functionality & emergent behaviour
  • Perform technical trade-off analyses considering performance, interoperability, security, deployability, resilience, maintainability, cost, schedule & technological maturity
• Model Based Systems Engineering
  • Apply MBSE throughout the engineering lifecycle
  • Map project requirements against existing Requirement Models, Implementation Guidelines & Implementation Constraints. Maximise reuse of approved Modules, Services, architectures &