Job Title: Inzpire - Systems Engineer (Triage)
Lincoln, England, United Kingdom
THE COMPANY
We are a highly innovative and rapidly growing defence and technology company that design, develop, and deliver some of the world’s most advanced defence related training, products, and services.
We were recently crowned Employer of the Year at the British Ex-Forces in Business Awards 2023. We have been listed as one of the ‘100 Best Large Companies to Work For’ in the UK and Midlands by Best Companies several times as well as achieving ‘Best Companies 3 Star Accreditation’ and a rating of ‘world-class’ for our employee engagement on a number of occasions. We are also proud to have been honoured with two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in Innovation, for our next-generation GECO military mission planning system.
As part of a unique and specialist defence company, our friendly team consists of experienced and highly capable individuals, working together with a mature ‘can do’ work ethic. Our central business functions are located in an easily accessible, bright and modern head office to the west of Lincoln, alongside our mission systems team, while the majority of our operational specialists are embedded alongside our Defence customers.
THE ROLE
Our award-winning Mission Systems Division deliver some of the world’s most advanced aviation IT systems from our office in Lincoln. As a result of our continued success and business expansion, we are delighted to offer a Systems Engineering opportunity to support the development and delivery of our bespoke IT products.
As a Systems Engineer (Triage), you will be assessing issues identified within the GECO product, collaboratively proposing solutions, enabling task prioritisation and improving the efficiency of the product development cycle. Additionally, you will be required to support our customer-facing staff in understanding the impact of issues have on end users and supporting the Test Engineering Manager with their responsibilities.
The role will typically involve these tasks:
- Investigating complex system behaviours across software, interfaces, and data flows.
- Conducting exploratory testing, reviewing error logs, and tracing system behaviour and execution paths to understand root causes.
- Assessing and reporting the severity, impact and urgency of issues.
- Maintaining detailed records in our issue tracking tool and knowledge base.
- Contributing to the design and implementation of fixes, updates and new product features.
- Advising on test procedure and requirement updates to improve regression test coverage and prevent recurrence.
- Assisting Mission Systems’ staff in understanding the product systems.
- Undertaking related project activities.
Your specific responsibilities will include:
- Contributing directly to systems engineering aspects of Company designed electronic mapping, mission support and electronic flight bag products.
- Supporting continuous improvement of Mission System’s products, tests and test management processes.
- Supporting product development, through incident management, fault diagnosis, escalation, design, prototyping, process improvement and documentation.
- Providing test evidence and related documentation, in support of product development, releases and project deliveries.
- Ensuring the quality of test evidence is maintained at a high level and a standardised approach is used.
- Supporting the Test Engineering Manager with their responsibilities.
- Supporting Mission Systems’ goals and activities.
This role is based in the Company Offices in Lincoln; remote working is available where tasking allows - applicants should assume that they may occasionally be required to work in the office full-time some weeks.
THE PERSON
We are looking for a proactive, articulate, flexible and confident individual with excellent attention to detail and the discipline to produce consistently high-quality output, whilst committing to the principles of developing high quality systems to specific standards. As a member of a small highly skilled team, the responsibilities of the role will necessarily be broad and varied and you should be prepared to assume a comprehensive range of tasks, be capable of working with minimum supervision, be confident enough to contribute your own suggestions and ideas and have a ‘can do’ attitude as you will be required to take a flexible, constructive and timely approach to meeting the diverse needs of the Company’s business.
You will also have an inquisitive/analytical mind, be able to research issues independently and suggest pragmatic, business-focused solutions. We are also looking for candidates to demonstrate a desire to develop professionally within our growing business.
We require a proactive individual with relevant and recent knowledge and experience of providing output aligned to the role requirements as detailed in this advert.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Evidence of the following would be considered essential:
- A methodical approach to work.
- An understanding of requirements, architecture and verification concepts for software and systems.
- Proven experience of system, hardware and / or software testing, ideally within a regulated domain (e.g., aerospace).
- Working knowledge of the principles of exploratory testing.
- An understanding of the principles of configuration control.
- Expert user of a DevOps platform (e.g. Azure Dev Ops, Jira).
DESIRABLE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Evidence (including qualifications or certifications) of any of the following would be considered desirable:
- Proven experience of developing traceable requirements and design.
- Proven experience of developing tests to satisfied stated requirements.
- Experience in using requirements, verification, and configuration management tools (e.g. IBM Rational DOORS, Azure DevOps, etc).
- Knowledge of the principles of the development of systems for safety related systems (RTCA/DO-178C, DO-200A, DO-254, IEC61508, etc.).
- Proficient in software development for engineering applications using .NET, C or C++.
- A strong understanding of the aviation environments in which our products are used.
- Working knowledge of modern operating systems.
- Working knowledge of on-aircraft integration.
Due to the nature of elements of the role, the successful applicant must be a UK National and may be required to successfully complete National Security Vetting which may require criminal record, security service and credit reference checks; qualification will also normally require a minimum UK residency of at least 5 years.
HOW TO APPLY
If you have the required background and are interested in joining a high-performing team, supporting the delivery of exceptional award-winning products and services to our customers, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please click apply and follow the instructions to upload your CV.
Please note that we are part of the QinetiQ group and you will be taken to the QinetiQ careers website in order to complete your application.
BENEFITS
Our comprehensive benefits package includes:
- 30 days paid holiday plus 8 days bank holidays per year.
- Uncapped paid leave scheme (upon successful completion of probation period).
- Company provided private medical and dental insurance.
- QinetiQ Share Incentive Scheme.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
- Annual profit and performance related pay scheme.
- Death in service (x4 salary).
- Company contributions into a group personal pension scheme.
- Business travel insurance.
- Tax efficient cycle to work and charitable giving schemes.
- Tax efficient electric vehicle company car scheme.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Inzpire are committed to creating an inclusive and respectful environment for current and prospective employees. We recognise that a diverse, talented and highly motivated workforce is pivotal to our continuing success, therefore our selection decisions are based on the merit of the individual, irrespective of their race, colour, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or any other characteristic.
We genuinely recognise the benefits of a diverse and inclusive working environment. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer, a supportive signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant and a Gold award winner within the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. We are therefore delighted to offer a guaranteed interview scheme to service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners (including those of service leavers) who meet all our advertised requirements.