Lead Systems Engineer (MBSE, Architecture, System Integration) for NATO with security clearance
WLG Braine-l'Alleud, Wallonia, Belgium
Financial Services · 2-10 employees
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About the role
The Lead Systems Engineer will translate operational requirements into clear system architectures and act as the technical owner for deployable communication systems. They will coordinate specialists across networking, SATCOM, and cybersecurity to ensure coherent design and lifecycle management.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must hold a degree in engineering or computer science with approximately 10 years of experience in complex ICT or defence systems. Strong expertise in requirements engineering, system integration, and technical leadership is essential for this role.
Full description
Networks, satellites, servers, security. Someone has to make them behave as one system.
A multinational defence organisation in Braine-l'Alleud builds deployable communication andinformation systems out of standard modules and services. It needs a senior solution engineer whocan see the whole system at once - turning requirements into architecture, coordinating thespecialists, and acting as technical owner of systems already in operational service.
What you would be doing
- Translating operational and project requirements into implementable solutions and a clearsystem architecture
- Applying model-based systems engineering, reusing approved building blocks and flagging thegaps where they fall short
- Running trade-off analyses across performance, interoperability, security, resilience, costand schedule
- Acting as product owner for systems already in service: assessing changes, obsolescence andtechnology refresh against the whole system, and keeping its roadmap current
- Integrating contributions from networking, SATCOM and radio, compute and cloud, storage,cybersecurity and identity specialists into one coherent design
- Being the technical focal point for your projects and driving conflicting requirements to adecision
What you would bring
- A degree in systems, telecommunications, computer or electronic engineering or computerscience, and around 10 years of engineering experience on complex ICT, defence, aerospace ortelecoms systems
- Proven work as technical lead, lead systems engineer or solution architect
- Strong requirements engineering, interface control, traceability and system integration,verification and acceptance
- Broad technical range across networking, infrastructure, virtualisation, security, cloud,automation and communications - you understand how they interact, without needing to be theexpert in each
- Experience with systems after they go live: configuration and change management,obsolescence and technical debt
- Professional English, including writing and reviewing complex technical documents
Why this one is worth a look
It is a system-level seat with real design authority, on deployable systems that have to workfirst time in the field.
