Principal Systems Engineer 12 Months Contract Bedford £65ph - Inside IR35 *** Due to the nature of the role and the industry you will be working in, you will be required to achieve UK SC Clearance at an enhanced level *** Our client a large aerospace company is looking for an experienced Principal Systems Engineer to join them at their site based in Luton. This role will focus on the development and upgrade of Combat Air Sector products. The role entails applying knowledge and experience in systems engineering to support the specification, design, development, integration and testing of these systems. Typical work you might be involved in: * Work alongside internal stakeholders to understand user needs and requirements with which to define and influence system requirements and designs, ensuring traceability for design compliance and acceptance. * Develop and run test strategies to demonstrate design and implementation compliance, ensuring end-to-end traceability to achieve certification. * Support system integration, verification, and validation activities to test and analyse performance and effectiveness. * Develop and deliver engineering specifications, reports and presentations. What we need from you * A solid foundation in a relevant technical domain exploited in an EW systems context/application. * High proficiency in requirements generation and management using IBM DOORS. * Experience of authoring detailed design artifacts in support of requirements specifications. * Good understanding of design compliance and acceptance criteria relating to requirements and architecture progressive verification and validation at varying stages of maturity. * Strong understanding of systems engineering principles across the development lifecycle. * Previous experience of technical leadership of complex products. * Ability to perform effective interface control management, both in terms of application and derivation, at a sub-system, system and system-of-system levels including the generation of interface control documents. * Ability to obtain SC Clearance for UK-caveated programmes. Disclaimer: This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change