Land CEMA Architect

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Are you a highly regarded and accomplished engineer with an abundance of experience in the Defence industry?

Do you have the pride and passion required to drive cutting-edge solutions that directly contribute to UK National Security?

Here at Lockheed Martin, we are offering the fantastic opportunity to join our prestigious company as our Rotary and Mission Systems Chief Engineer Land CEMA Architect.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced engineer with an abundance of experience in the Land Domain. If you have experience of Electronic Warfare or Radio Frequency, this will also be hugely beneficial.

Reporting to the Chief Engineer and working in close collaboration with other solution architects and subject matter experts, you will play a leading role in the design and development of Land CEMA solutions to support the delivery of current and future programmes. The role will span the entire Land CEMA domain, from interaction with key stakeholders to shape the ongoing evolution of the Land CEMA architecture to the design and technical delivery of compliant solutions. It will also require a detailed understanding of how Land CEMA fits into broader programme goals, including overall solution design, complex systems integration, and solution support and sustainment.

In return, you will be a part of our fantastic benefits scheme. At Lockheed Martin the welfare of our staff is absolutely paramount and we wish all of our employees to have an excellent work-life balance. We therefore offer everyone the option to work full time hours over a 4 day week, giving you every Friday off work! Combined with this, you will have an abundance of remote working opportunities. We encourage a diverse workforce and we endeavour to be as flexible as possible to suit everyone’s needs.

Required skills and experience:

• Broad understanding of the MOD Land CEMA architecture (LCA)
• Experience developing modular open systems architectures that support the integration of both in-house and third-party capabilities.
• Experience with the design and development of systems in at least one of:
• Electronic Warfare
• Electronic Countermeasures / Counter-IED
• Military Communications Networks
• Signals Intelligence

Customer-Facing Skills:

• Confidence in a customer-facing role, working with stakeholders at all levels
• Very strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to clearly communicate complex technical ideas to internal and external stakeholders
• Proven ability to understand customer goals and aspirations, develop and agree requirement specifications, and design appropriate high- and low-level solutions

Desired skills and experience:

• Experience in the Force Protection domain
• Experience developing LCA-compliant solutions
• Experience in military vehicle systems integration
• Knowledge of Radio Frequency tools and techniques
• Experience with system modelling toolsets and methodologies, e.g. Sparx Enterprise Architect, UML, SysML, or similar
• Experience leading technical teams to deliver solutions to agreed budget, schedule, and scope