Are you a System Architecture Engineer looking for a new contract opportunity in either Bristol or Newport?

Can you capture both structural, functional and behavioral aspects within the Architecture at an appropriate level of detail to provide stakeholder confidence, control the risk and visual the real needs of the projects stakeholders, staff, customers and end users?

This role will support the progressive assurance activities being provided across the Programme in demonstrating compliance with the project objectives through visualisation and tracking of compliance evidence to project teams, sponsor and other stakeholders.

Essential skills

* Knowledge and experience of system architecture development to support the various phases and lifecycles of the project drawing information from many diverse sources.
* Analytical skills, to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details/elements, abstract up from low-level information to a more general understanding, distinguish presented user requests from the underlying true needs, and distinguish solution ideas from requirements
* Interviewing skills, to talk with individuals and groups about their needs and ask the right questions to surface essential information
* Writing skills, to communicate information effectively to customers, marketing, managers, and technical staff
* Visualisation skills - ability to represent complicated systems and connectivity in clear and well presented and structured drawings and models.
* Ability to interface and work with (railway) domain specialists, design managers and construction project managers, in a competent professional manner
* Understanding of System Engineering lifecyles - awareness of different lifecycles and experience of implementation of lifecycles approaches to real projects.
* Minimum 5 years practical experience acting as a system architecture engineer/System Architect.
* Qualified with a relevant technical degree level (Engineering/IT/Systems Engineering);
* Membership of professional body;
* Sound understanding of the context in which projects have to be delivered;
* Technically experienced in a diverse range of methods and techniques ;
* Understanding of core standards and their contextual application:

If the above sounds like you and you are available from 12th March please respond to this advert and I will arrange an initial call to discuss further.