Space Systems Engineer

At Capgemini Engineering

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About the job you're considering

Capgemini Engineering is looking for Space Systems Engineering Consultants to join out rapidly growing team to support one of the UK’s leading Aerospace organisations.

Our portfolio of projects includes work at all stages of the system lifecycle, from concept definition to in-service support. As well as directly supporting systems engineering tasks for our clients, we also offer consultancy services to improve organisations systems capabilities and enable digital transformation.

At Capgemini Engineering we value excellence, care, responsibility, dynamism and innovation. We offer a job with variation that leaves plenty of room for initiative and development. In fact, we are not just offering you a job, we’re inviting you to be part of our community where we will provide you trainings, tools & grounds for professional and personal growth. Each career pathway is accompanied by an attractive salary package.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.​ If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including: identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)

Your Role

As a consultant within Capgemini, you will be working alongside some of the top experts in the country, on some of the largest and most complex client engagements across the space sector. You will be given the opportunity to grow and take on responsibility from day one in a challenging but rewarding and meritocratic environment.

• Maintenance and update of SysML Models
• Performance assessment of MBSE models, scripts, and ensuring mission and payload representativity
• Design, upgrade, and maintenance of space simulators while ensuring mission and technical coherence with the space segment and mission design baseline in an environment of high engineering change.
• Development, maintenance, update of physical and mathematical analysis through MATLAB, Python, and MS Excel workbooks.
• Conducting design reviews and closing out actions.
• Technical documentation, data packs, and peer reviews.
• Providing mission and ConOps/OpsCon support.
• Facilitating cross-functional team collaboration and liaising with specialists and discipline leads.
• Managing requirements and V&V data using IBM Rational DOORS.
• Consulting with stakeholders to elicit and manage their capability needs and define requirements.
• Proposing solutions to address client needs.
• Supporting bid work, including costing and technical proposal generation for future system studies.
• Technical coordination and reporting.
• Presenting at meetings and workshops.

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini building an inclusive future is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.

Your Skills and Experience

• Proven experience and knowledge of space systems.
• Knowledge of V-cycle, product development, V&V, and change management process.
• Strong understanding of Systems Engineering theory and processes and being able to adapt existing approaches and define new ones.
• Knowledge and experience of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and SysML.
• Knowledge and experience of Space Simulators.
• Knowledge and experience of MATLAB, Python, MS Excel, and IBM Rational DOORS.
• Proficient in MS Office and Google Suite.
• Comfortable handling ambiguity & uncertainty.
• Knowledge of mechanical systems, thermodynamics, and chemical propulsion would be an advantage.
• Knowledge and experience of Radiometry, Climate Measurements, and Hyperspectral Imaging would be an advantage.

​​Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace so if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Your Security Clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role you will need to undergo Baseline Personnel Security Standard checks. ​

There are no nationality or residency restrictions, although if you have resided outside of the UK within the last 3 years, further checks may be required.​

There are other criteria and checks required for BPSS, and throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

What does ‘Get The Future You Want ‘ mean for you?

You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements. You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. ​
To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy. You will reimagine what’s possible: creating value for the world’s leading organisations through technology to build a sustainable, more inclusive future. You will work with a range of clients all with a unique set of business, technological and societal ambitions, which will make a real impact across the UK.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion