Job Role
The role will cover all aspects of the systems life cycle, and subject to competency and experience could include any or all of the following: Identification of system requirements.

• Generation of systems design or evaluation thereof.
• Conduct of systems feasibility studies.
• Determination or evaluation of integration strategy for large-scale systems.
• Determination or evaluation of validation strategy for large-scale systems.
• Identification and/or introduction of governance systems to meet business objectives.
• Assessment of existing enterprise architectures, or identification of new architectures, to meet business level requirements.
• Contributing to technical content, for sales proposals.
• Being an active member of the Praxis systems community, sharing best practice and contributing to Praxis' capabilities in this area.

• Acting as an advocate for Praxis within the national and international systems communities, by speaking at conferences, attending standards committees, etc.
• Setting technical strategy for large and complex sales proposals and/or projects.
• Providing training and mentoring to less experienced staff.
• Setting direction for Praxis' systems engineering offering and ensuring consistency with Praxis' overall engineering strategy.

Education and training

• A first class or upper second degree in a relevant engineering discipline - or significant industrial experience. Relevant engineering disciplines could include systems engineering, maths, physics, software engineering - the first degree is likely to be numerate and scientific.
• Training and development is likely to reflect a multi-disciplinary background and for more experience candidates experience at a variety of different levels within a business.
• A further degree (eg MSc, or PhD) would not be an unusual qualification for a candidate.
• Consistent in-service training demonstrating a professional approach to maintenance of skills.
• At the very least a clearly defined route through to chartered status, and for more experienced candidates membership of a relevant professional institution with chartered status.

Experience

• Candidates are likely to have at least five years working in a relevant discipline or industry sector - either directly within industry, or an academic or consulting environment.
• More experienced candidates are likely to have at least ten years relevant experience and are likely to be known within the critical systems arena as a recognised expert. Relevant sectors are civil and military aerospace, air traffic management, nuclear, mainline and underground rail.

Skills

• A sound appreciation of the underlying principles of systems engineering in a complex systems environment, including one or more of corporate governance, enterprise architecture, systems of systems, requirements engineering, systems design, systems integration or systems validation.
• Understanding of the broad range of systems engineering, possibly by demonstrable expertise in areas ranging from whole life-cycle enterprise level business-issues down to IT systems.
• An understanding of the issues associated with delivery of complex systems.
• An ability to think analytically, rigorously and creatively.
• Staff are likely to be highly customer-focussed and have effective oral and written communications skills to a range of technical and commercial audiences. More experienced candidates are likely to have highly developed influencing skills.
• An ability to carry out detailed justified work to commercial and technical requirements, and to be able to constructively criticise and assess others' work.
• Knowledge of industry-standard tools and techniques, and a critical appreciation of their strengths and weaknesses; for example process engineering notations, modelling tools such as UML, IDEF, SSF, MODAF, DODAF, etc.
• The ability and personal drive to work in teams or alone, with client and Praxis staff, both in Praxis offices and on-site in the UK and potentially overseas.
• Working knowledge of one or more regulatory regimes and the national/international standards appropriate to that regime.
• The ability to mentor and develop others.
• The ability to plan and deliver in a complex environment.

Salary & Benefits