2342 IT & Software Developer jobs in the UK
Requirements
Must:
- Degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or similar
- Strong experience delivering complex systems engineering programmes, ideally with a hardware focus
- Proven expertise in requirements management, traceability, and configuration control
- Experience across integration, verification, and validation activities
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the confidence to challenge and influence
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Experience working in secure or regulated environments
- High proficiency with data, tools, and systems (e.g. Excel, requirements tools)
- Experience designing or supporting secure systems for defence environments (desirable)
- Background in electronics, hardware, or embedded systems (desirable)
- Familiarity with MBSE, Jira, Jama Connect or similar tools (desirable)
- Experience with ILS, reliability engineering, or technical documentation (desirable)
- Knowledge of cyber security, information assurance, or secure architectures (desirable)
Responsibilities
- Define and manage system lifecycles from concept to retirement, ensuring robust governance and clear design decisions
- Capture, analyse, and manage complex, traceable requirements, ensuring alignment across multidisciplinary teams
- Develop secure, hardware-led architectures with full traceability from requirement to solution
- Lead cross-functional engineering teams (hardware, software, electrical), driving delivery and resolving technical challenges
- Plan and execute system integration, testing, and formal acceptance in line with stringent standards
- Maintain system integrity across internal and external interfaces
- Ensure systems meet defence-grade security, regulatory, and safety requirements
- Work closely with customers and senior stakeholders, influencing decisions and managing evolving requirements
- Drive best practice across systems engineering processes, tools, and methodologies
Description
At ESCO Maritime, we are committed to leading the development of secure, hardware-centric systems in a highly regulated environment where precision, resilience, and innovation are critical. Join us at our Loudwater location, where you will have the opportunity to work on mission-critical, secure systems that have a real-world impact. We offer a collaborative, forward-thinking engineering environment aimed at shaping best practices and driving innovation. Security Clearance (SC) or eligibility to gain is required to be considered for this vacancy.
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The company with most openings is Experis as they are hiring for 74 different System Engineer jobs in the UK. They are probably quite committed to find good System Engineers.