Are you a System Integration Engineer looking for a new contract in either Reading or Swindon?

The successful candidate will be reporting to the Lead Integration Engineer(s) and have the following day to day duties:

Interface Management

* Lead the capture and identification of interface requirements within the functional, geographic and / or discipline area.
* Demonstrate detailed understanding of the interfaces and integration requirements within the relevant area to provide insight into the context and rationale of the integration outputs during any verification and validation activities
* Produce interface requirements specifications/architectures according to standard templates, using natural language to enable them to be simply, clearly, unambiguously, and concisely understood by all parties.
* Manage traceability information and track interfaces status throughout the project.

System Integration

* Decompose high-level sponsor integration requirements into there specific functional/geographic/project decomposed requirements, specifying the appropriate level of closure evidence detail suitable for each compliance stage.
* Support the development of System Architectures and System Integration Strategies and Plans
* Lead integration verification workstreams, analysing the required outputs and checking nay submitting verification evidence, ensuring that integration/interface closure statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards.
* Identify integration gaps and conflicts, and write interface and integration compliance reports.

Essential skills

* Understanding of system integration and interface management best practices in the identification, capture, monitoring, analysis and closure of interfaces.
* Ability to produce integration and interface specifications, specifying the verification & validation methodology, and any related management practices, this ability should be matched with an understanding of how to deliver on these requirements, though a familiarity with integration/ interface management best practice, personal user cases and any engineering books and resources.
* Analytical skills, to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details.
* Writing skills, to communicate information effectively to all customers, contractors, managers, and technical staff
* Organizational skills, to work with the vast array of information gathered during elicitation and analysis and to cope with rapidly changing information
* Interpersonal skills, to help negotiate priorities and to resolve conflicts among project stakeholders (such as customers, product management, and engineering)
* Minimum 5 years practical experience as a interface/integration engineer.
* Qualified with a relevant technical degree level
* Membership of professional body

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.