About this job

General Dynamics Mission Systems engineers a diverse portfolio of high technology solutions, products and services that enable customers to successfully execute missions across all domains of operation. With a global team of more than 13,000 top professionals, we partner with the best in industry to expand the bounds of innovation in the defence and scientific arenas. In the UK, we employ more than 1,400 people and are leading the way in Armoured Fighting Vehicles, avionics and communication systems. Given the nature of our work and who we are, we value trust, honesty, alignment and transparency.

We believe in maintaining a diverse workplace – inclusive of beliefs, cultural background, job experiences, thoughts and ideas. If who we are and what we do resonates with you, we invite you to join our high performance team.

Responsibilities

As a Solution Architect you will lead on a range of new business-winning solutions across the business, as well as contribute towards the architecture, design, and engineering governance regimes of on-contract solutions, including both internal and customer-funded R&D.

You will work collaboratively with the other members of the Solution Architecture Service team, with capture managers, programme managers, customers, and other engineering teams to develop business-winning solutions and to deliver against contractual commitments in the Defence TacCIS, ISTAR and CEMA domains. Solution Architectures will encompass both technical system solutions and Systems Engineering management aspects of solutions.

On a typical day you will:

• State and communicate an architectural vision
• Lead the technical element of business-winning proposal development, including cost estimation
• Developing an understanding of customer needs through customer contact
• Develop System Requirements
• Capture Logical Architectures and Physical System Designs using PTC Integrity Modeler
• Set out the engineering governance regime for future programmes

Profile

Solution Architect is a senior specialist role and consequently you will bring to the team your experience of delivering a wide range of military systems, services and capabilities. Notably you will have understanding of ISTAR, CEMA systems and an excellent understanding of tactical communications systems. You will demonstrate your ability to drive quality and efficiency into our solution architectures through to delivery.

Ideally you will have experience and knowledge of some the following:

• BOWMAN/BCIP
• NATO Standards for Interoperability
• ZODIAC architecture
• Land CEMA architecture
• PTC IM CASE tool