Job Title: Senior Communications Integration Engineer
Location: Portsmouth
Package: Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits Package
Role Type: Full-time / Permanent
Role ID: SF17571

Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as a Senior Communications Integration Engineer with a focus on Communication Systems at our Portsmouth site where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and many of the industry’s most brilliant minds.

The Role
As a Senior Communications Integration Engineer, you will have a role that is out of the ordinary providing subject matter expertise to support the technical delivery of secure end-to-end radio solutions in a multi-bearer, mobile environment from design to delivery and transition to service.

Day-to-day, you will:

• Lead teams or work in collaboration within a team to ensure solutions are integrated and technically leading projects being accountable for their technical success.
• Independently create and run test plans and schedules and contribute towards strategy decisions.
• Take existing design documents and read across to system requirements in order to validate the design and produce appropriate test documentation.
• Deliver demonstration and presentations on technical subjects to senior stakeholders and Industry partners.
• Identify and resolve technical issues by using in-depth knowledge on communications principles.

This role is a full-time position based at our Portsdown technology park site and is fully on-site.

Essential experience of the Senior Communications Integration Engineer:

• Qualified to a degree level in a relevant subject or extensive experience in the communications Industry.
• Experience providing technical leadership with demonstrable experience speaking to stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge on military communication systems and utilising the full frequency spectrum.
• In depth knowledge of commercial telecommunications technology such as microwave, Wi-Fi, 4G and LTE.
• Proven experience conveying complex information to non-specialist audiences.

Qualifications for the Senior Communications Integration Engineer:
A Technical Degree (Computer Science, Maths, Engineering or equivalent field) or relevant technical experience.

Please note that all applicants must hold, or be able to achieve Security Clearance as a minimum.

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Our Benefits

• Adaptive and flexible working
• Generous holiday allowance
• Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance, and Dental Insurance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee discount portal
• Holiday Trading
• Support for the Armed Forces community
• Payroll Giving and Volunteering

Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those which help the defence community.

Why join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture here.

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits. You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more.

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.