Systems Integration Lead

Role overview

Integration leadership and execution

• Develop integration strategies, plans, schedules, build sequences, events, resource plans, and readiness criteria.
• Coordinate systems, software, hardware, electrical, mechanical, test, production, and support teams.
• Lead readiness reviews and risk assessments, generating evidence against requirements, interface definitions, and acceptance criteria.
• Identify and mitigate integration risks, dependencies, blockers, and design maturity concerns.
• Lead defect investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Drive integration from system build and commissioning through trials and customer acceptance.

Required experience and capabilities

• Proven experience delivering complex multidisciplinary systems involving hardware and software components.
• Strong systems engineering and integration knowledge, including requirements, architecture, interface management, verification, validation, and acceptance.
• Ability to influence engineers across disciplines and align teams, suppliers, customers, and delivery partners.
• Evidence-driven problem solver with experience investigating defects, conducting root cause analysis, and managing corrective actions.
• Experience with configuration management, change control, technical governance, and assurance.
• Effective communicator and decision maker able to balance technical risk, delivery priorities, safety, and customer outcomes.

Desirable qualifications and experience

• Experience with complex maritime, autonomous, defence, aerospace, robotics, or other safety-critical systems is desirable.
• Familiarity with ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288, INCOSE, or equivalent systems engineering lifecycle approaches is desirable.
• Understanding of safety, reliability, security, regulatory, or assurance requirements is desirable.
• Experience with requirements, architecture modelling, configuration, issue tracking, test management, or project planning tools is desirable.
• IEng or CEng registration, or progress toward registration, is desirable.
• A degree, higher apprenticeship, or equivalent experience in systems engineering or a related discipline is desirable.