Location: Bournemouth
Hours: Full-time 37 hours Permanent
Draken believes in fair reward and recognition for our employees. As such, we offer competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including up to 12 matching pension contributions, bonus incentives, discounted PMI, electric car scheme, tech vouchers, wellbeing programmes and much more.
About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Systems Requirements Engineer (Technology) to join the Draken Chief Technology Officer team. This is a key role supporting a wide range of internal and customer technology work packages, with responsibility for defining, implementing and managing system requirements across the full lifecycle of complex technology programmes.
You will own and drive the Technology requirements governance process, working closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure requirements are clearly defined, controlled, and understood—while proactively managing technical risk. This is a hands‑on, technical and stakeholder‑facing role, requiring strong communication skills and the ability to operate confidently at all levels of the organisation.
The role sits within Integrated Delivery Teams (IDTs), where you may act as technical lead for nominated projects, ensuring delivery meets time, cost and quality expectations.
Key Responsibilities
- Operate with safety first, ensuring compliance with SHE standards and safe systems of work
- Define, implement and manage system requirements across the full lifecycle of Technology work packages
- Own, review and maintain Technology requirements governance processes and procedures
- Identify, implement and manage a suitable requirements management tool
- Engage with internal and external stakeholders - including Flight Operations, EW Operations, Part 21G and Part 145 organisations - to capture, agree and control system requirements
- Act as Technical Lead within IDTs for allocated technology projects
- Produce high‑quality technical documentation, including:
- Statements of Requirement (SOR)
- Statements of Work (SOW)
- Systems Engineering Plans
- Qualification, EMC, Test and Acceptance Plans
- Contribute to and lead customer and stakeholder meetings where appropriate
- Review system, hardware, software, integration and test documentation to ensure design compliance
- Support the Chief Engineer in driving team performance through effective communication and collaboration
- Identify and propose process and product improvements to drive best practice and compliance
- Support staff development through knowledge sharing and mentoring
- Deliver tasks to agreed time, budget and quality standards
- Apply and comply with engineering frameworks, lifecycle management and regulatory requirements
- Undertake UK and overseas travel in support of business needs
Essential Skills & Experience
- Proven experience in a Systems or Technical Requirements Management role
- Strong understanding of EW and radar systems
- Experience using requirements management tools (e.g. DOORS) with traceability and verification
- Understanding of civil or military flight certification processes
- Experience delivering technical work using both agile and waterfall methodologies (e.g. JIRA, MS Project)
- Experience writing technical specifications for contracting and managing subcontractors
- Degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related discipline
Desirable
- Chartered Engineer (CEng)
- MEng or MSc qualification
Core Competencies
- Excellent communication, technical writing and presentation skills
- Strong stakeholder engagement and negotiation capability
- Ability to influence and agree requirements with customers and users
- Highly organised, self‑motivated and detail focused
- Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple projects
- Strong understanding of engineering processes and continuous improvement
- Collaborative mindset with the ability to work effectively in a matrix organisation
Our employee values
Draken is committed to eliminating unlawful and unfair discrimination and we celebrate the differences that a diverse workforce brings. A range of perspective and talent supports our values and drives our success, with a mix of voices generating better discussions, business decisions and outcomes for all.
At all our sites internationally, every member of the Draken team is accountable to ensure that we are all treated fairly and with respect.
We are also an Armed Forces friendly organisation, and as part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant, welcome applications from veterans and services spouses and partners who met the criteria in our job specifications.
In line with our Disability Confident Commitments, we provide reasonable adjustments to facilitate our interview process, please liaise with us if any reasonable adjustments are required.