Systems Integration Manager

Role Overview

Leadership and People Management

• Lead and manage Systems Engineers, Systems Integration Engineers, and Safety Assurance professionals.
• Undertake resource, performance, career development, and objective-setting responsibilities for assigned staff.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and technical guidance and support professional accreditation.
• Manage team allocation and capacity across projects.
• Support recruitment, interviewing, onboarding, and team growth.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative, high-performing culture and address capability gaps.

Systems Engineering and Integration

• Lead systems integration principles across the full project lifecycle.
• Develop integration strategies for multidisciplinary rail and transportation projects.
• Manage interfaces between signalling, telecommunications, rolling stock, power, stations, track, operational, and maintenance systems.
• Manage requirements capture, allocation, traceability, systems architecture, and interface activities.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams and facilitate workshops, design reviews, and integration forums.
• Review and approve systems engineering and integration deliverables.

Safety and Systems Assurance

• Lead safety assurance activities across projects and programmes.
• Maintain Safety Assurance Plans, Safety Cases, and Hazard Management processes.
• Ensure compliance with CDM, CSM-RA, RIR, and interoperability requirements.
• Lead HAZID, HAZOP, safety workshops, and risk assessment activities.
• Manage interfaces with Independent Safety Assessors, Assessment Bodies, NoBo, and DeBo organisations.
• Lead requirements verification and validation, testing, commissioning, assurance evidence, and project approvals.

Client and Business Leadership

• Act as a trusted technical adviser to clients and project stakeholders.
• Support business development, bid preparation, proposals, delivery strategies, and technical solutions.
• Identify opportunities to grow Systems Integration and Safety Assurance services.
• Represent Egis at client meetings, industry working groups, and professional forums.
• Contribute to standards, methodologies, and technical excellence initiatives.

Essential Qualifications and Experience

• Degree in Systems Engineering, Railway Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Significant rail-industry experience in systems engineering, systems integration, and safety assurance.
• Experience leading and managing engineering teams in a consultancy, contractor, or client organisation.
• Strong understanding of railway systems and multidisciplinary engineering integration.
• Knowledge of systems integration, requirements management, interface management, V&V, systems assurance, CSM-RA, CDM, RIR, safety cases, and hazard management.
• Strong stakeholder and client management capabilities.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and organisational skills.

Desirable Qualifications and Experience

• Chartered Engineer status is desirable.
• Experience with HS2, Network Rail, TfL, metro, light rail, or international rail programmes is desirable.
• Experience using DOORS or an equivalent requirements management tool is desirable.
• Knowledge of relevant industry standards is desirable.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary engineering teams across large infrastructure projects is desirable.

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