System Design Authority

Overview

As a System Design Authority in TKMS Atlas UK’s Submarine Systems division, you lead systems engineering from concept to customer acceptance, owning long-term product development and ensuring reliability in challenging underwater environments. You collaborate with customers, project managers, and engineering teams to translate requirements into high-level architectures and drive delivery. The role offers leadership in shaping technology roadmaps, standardization, and future business opportunities within a growth-focused, security-cleared environment.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Career development and training
• 25 days holiday (30 after 10 years)
• Dental cover and EAP
• Flexible working patterns
• Generous pension scheme

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers to promote capabilities and engage with customers to secure opportunities
• Analyze requirements, develop solution concepts, and translate them into high-level architectures and system specifications
• Prepare technical proposals and support Bid Managers in tenders and quotations
• Provide technical management for allocated initiatives across the systems engineering lifecycle
• Coordinate with Engineering, Production, and external suppliers to ensure timely delivery against plans
• Align customer and self-funded research with Submarine Systems product development and roadmapping enabling technologies
• Own the long-term plan for product development and updates
• Contribute to TKMS Atlas UK’s standardization initiatives

Key requirements

• Systems thinking mindset and understanding of customer/user context
• Experience across product lifecycles, systems design, modeling, analysis, requirements management, testing, acceptance, production, or support
• Technical expertise in one or more listed domains (sonar/seismic arrays; sensor data/telemetry; real-time systems; towed arrays; weapon/countermeasure systems; data analysis; acoustic/RF; automation and control; safety systems; modeling/simulation; future submarine concepts)
• Strong written communication and ability to produce technical reports and interface with customers, military staff, and stakeholders

• Effective communication
• Relationship building with customers and stakeholders
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Sonar/seismic arrays
• Sensor data and signal processing
• Real-time systems

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