Systems Engineer - Software
Cheadle

Traffic Management has been identified as a key initiative in the current Network Rail Strategic Business Plan. Traffic Management will change the way Network Rail operates and manages the GB rail network using new ways of working and technology. Through this modernisation of the railway, Traffic Management will offer a suite of decision support tools which will enable the network to run more effectively and efficiently by predicting and managing conflicts proactively rather than reactively.

The Thales Traffic Management solution takes data from a wide variety of industry standard sources, we require data engineers to ensure that the quality of the data is the world standard for rail transport.

We are recruiting for a Systems Engineer to ensure data quality, data integrity, data sourcing and data deployment into Traffic Management and supporting systems, the role will include identifying new processing techniques and methodologies, trialling new autonomous data acquisition and amalgamation systems and operational support of the live Traffic Management System.

The data you handle will be used to operate the railway 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. The railway never stops, and neither do our systems or data capture and processing systems.

Interfacing with both data providers and data users, you will play a key role in defining the future of data provision and working processes post Traffic Management deployment. This is a key position within the business and we are looking for an ambitious individual to take ownership of the role, with very real opportunities for progression.

This is a full time, permanent position based in Cheadle.

Duties & Responsibilities

- Support the review of the standard ARAMIS support arrangements employed in existing installations
- Support the development of best practice support arrangements.
- Support the development of internal ARAMIS functionality and amendments relating to installation and use within the UK
- Support the documentation of all data required for ARAMIS to function optimally within the UK
- Undertake training and knowledge transfer sessions to UK personnel with regard to ARAMIS configuration, installation and support.
- Support in the production of support ConOps.
- Converts requirements into conceptual designs and prepares associated documentation by performing operational analyses, simulations and technical trade-off studies evaluating alternative design configurations and functional features.
- Good understanding of the development lifecycle and lifecycle products.
- Writing and execution of Test Specifications including:
Writing of test plans
Writing of test specifications, working from system requirements
Execute test specifications (according to test plan and project schedule)
Record results of test execution
Raise/investigate/verify defects
Maintain quality target/standard
-Prepares system & subsystem requirement specifications, interface requirements and test requirement documents by analysing, decomposing modelling and refining customer requirements
- Performs technical/engineering tasks to define system design and subsystem requirements details. Analysis and simulations are performed as necessary to identify design feasibility & driving requirements
- Accurately reports work progress and estimates to complete against work packages assigned by line manager

Skills and attributes

- Proven experience within a demanding systems engineering function
- “Big Data” protocol analysis skills
- Software development (C, C++, PHP, Python & Django web framework, JAVA, HTML, JS, CSS, Perl).
- Network architecture skills
- Mobile communications & exploitation skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate at all levels
- Ability to work proactively within a team environment
- Sound ability to use a range of System Engineering tools.

Desirable

- An understanding of Mainline Rail Infrastructure knowledge – Signal Interlockings, Track Circuits, Berths;
- An understanding of Mainline Rail Data Sources – LTP,STP, Signalling SSI, CCF Logs, NMT, Engineering Asset Database, Locations Reference Data
- An understanding of Mainline legacy interfaces e.g. TD.NET, VSTP, TRUST, DARWIN;

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