Principal Systems Engineer

Overview

Date: 18 Sept 2025

Location: Hatfield, GB

Company: Alstom

Site: Hatfield- Onsite 5 days

Appointment Basis: Permanent

Apply by: 1/10/25

Excellent Salary + Benefits Include: Pension, Life Assurance, Contributed Healthcare

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars

Could you be the full-time Principal Systems Engineer in Hatfield we're looking for?

Position overview

The succesful candidate will participate in the development, adaptation, introduction and systems delivery elements of SSI and SMARTLOCK systems and processes (SML 400, MooN, Smart Gateway, SmartIO, Support System, Test Environment, AutoTesting) for signalling systems in the UK and Ireland. They will also engage in the development and / or improvement of tools and processes within the business including requirements capture, planning, specifications, design, implementation, testing and roll out. Assist in ensuring that tools and processes remain fit for purpose and enable continuous improvement of them by leading regular reviews and proactively suggesting and implementing improvements.

Responsibilities

• Ensure delivery of standardised objectives and optimum systems solutions on allocated projects.
• Delivery of project solutions ensuring focus on reliability, maintainability and safety principles.
• Ensure conformity of projects to systems standards, agreed system architecture, client standards and company procedures.
• Participate in the development of new systems solutions.
• Support to safety assurance on the application CSM on allocated projects / products including the development of Generic and Specific Application Safety Cases.
• Work with the Systems Engineering Manager to establish matters of best practice.
• Provide systems input to tenders.
• Participate in systems integration, project deliverables, associated sub-systems and validation of technical documentation in order to verify product and project compliance.
• Technical team management for Systems Engineers.
• Support the project in the field by providing second line product support to customers.
• Attendance at business and technical briefings.
• A degree of computer and software literacy.
• Software development or scripting experience.
• Ability to liaise with all stakeholders including customers, supplier and project delivery staff
• Organisational skills
• Decision Making
• Technical report writing

Qualifications

• MSc or BSc level education in an engineering related subject, preferably control systems / electrical engineering / systems engineering or equivalent.

Experience

• Good knowledge of client and systems standards and legislation.
• Knowledge of the UK railway safety approval processes.
• Good knowledge of systems engineering principles and good understanding of relevant systems and software tools and the aptitude to develop skills further.
• Experience working in a railway systems engineering environment.

Skills

• Commercial and financial awareness
• Virtualisation and Cloud Technologies
• Microsoft Windows System and Domain Administration.

Additional Qualifications

• PTS (Personal Track Safety)
• Corporate Member of an engineering institute
• IRSE Systems or Engineering Managers licence (Institute of Railway Signal Engineers)

Important to note

Alstom is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local law.

As a 'Disability Confident' employer, we will interview all disabled job applicants who match the essential criteria of the job description or specification. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.