ALTEN
10,000+ employees
🚀 Aerospace
Engineering • IT Services • Aerospace
ALTEN is a leader in outsourced Engineering and R&D and IT Services, catering to various industries such as aeronautics, automotive, banking, and life sciences. With a workforce of over 57,400 employees across nearly 30 countries, ALTEN specializes in executing complex and technical projects, supporting innovation and technology advancements in multiple sectors. The company focuses on providing engineering services, project management, and IT solutions to enhance client operations and foster sustainable innovation.
Systems Architect
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote
⏳ Contract/Temporary
🟡 Mid-level
🟠 Senior
⚙️ Systems Engineer
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ALTEN
10,000+ employees
🚀 Aerospace
Engineering • IT Services • Aerospace
ALTEN is a leader in outsourced Engineering and R&D and IT Services, catering to various industries such as aeronautics, automotive, banking, and life sciences. With a workforce of over 57,400 employees across nearly 30 countries, ALTEN specializes in executing complex and technical projects, supporting innovation and technology advancements in multiple sectors. The company focuses on providing engineering services, project management, and IT solutions to enhance client operations and foster sustainable innovation.
📋 Description
• Define the overall spacecraft architecture, ensuring alignment with mission objectives, constraints, and performance requirements. • Lead the development of system‑level concepts, including functional breakdowns, subsystem interactions, and high‑level design flows. • Own and maintain the technical baseline, ensuring consistency across electrical, mechanical, RF, software, thermal, and payload domains. • Produce and manage system specifications, architectural documentation, and interface definitions. • Drive trade‑off analyses, evaluating design options across performance, reliability, mass, power, and cost. • Support risk identification, mitigation strategies, and architectural decisions that impact mission reliability. • Oversee system‑level verification and validation, ensuring the architecture is fully testable and compliant. • Collaborate with AIT, mission operations, and engineering teams to ensure architectural consistency throughout development and testing. • Provide senior technical leadership, mentoring engineers and influencing long‑term architectural strategy.
🎯 Requirements
• Mandatory Space industry experience — direct involvement in spacecraft architecture, satellite systems, or mission‑critical space hardware. • Proven experience defining system architectures for complex aerospace or space platforms. • Strong understanding of subsystem domains (electrical, mechanical, RF, software, thermal, payload). • Skilled in producing system‑level documentation, specifications, and architectural models. • Strong analytical skills for trade studies, risk analysis, and architectural decision‑making. • Ability to coordinate across multidisciplinary engineering teams and drive system‑level coherence. • Experience supporting system‑level verification, validation, and design reviews. • A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, or equivalent military experience.
🏖️ Benefits
• Private Medical Insurance • Cycle & Tech Scheme • Employee assistance programme • Life insurance & Pension Scheme • Social atmosphere, regular gatherings & team buildings • Flexible way of working (role dependent)
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