Principal Systems EngineerLocation: CowesDuration: 12 monthsRate: £60 per hour PAYE or £81.05 per hour UmbrellaResponsibilities Develop novel solutions to evolving technical challenges and emerging issues for complex phased array Radar Systems that customers and end-user communities are facing.Conduct system design analysis to manage trade-offs of principle system parameters to characterise and specify robust product design.Demonstrate detailed and comprehensive understanding of concepts and principles relating to Systems Engineering and supporting governance and be able to apply knowledge to a wide range of engineering issues within own discipline and other engineering disciplines.Apply and champion the Systems Engineering principles of ISO 15288 to the design and build of complex Radar systems through the entire engineering lifecycle from requirement definition to system integration and customer acceptance into system support and disposal.Support a Radar Product System Design Authority in product engineering development and customer engagement as directed.Lead the decomposition of requirements to system and sub-system level and manage these in an approved toolset such as IBM DOORS Next and create and/or facilitate production of associated design requirement specifications.Develop, review and adhere to specifications in accordance with stakeholder requirements.Direct and undertake system design decomposition and architectural modelling to subsystem level, including ..... full job details .....