Electronic Warfare Systems Architect

We're seeking an experienced Senior or Principal Electronic Warfare Systems Architect to play a key role in developing and expanding advanced EW capabilities. This is a senior technical leadership position for someone who combines deep Electronic Warfare expertise with a broad engineering understanding and a passion for turning innovative concepts into deployable operational capability. Working across the full product lifecycle, you'll help shape new opportunities, define technical solutions, lead complex engineering programmes, and support customer demonstrations and trials in the UK and internationally. The Opportunity You will act as a technical authority, engaging with customers, government stakeholders, and industry partners while working closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams. This role offers significant influence over future capability development and technology strategy. Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across Electronic Warfare bids, programmes, and product development activities.
• Define, develop, and integrate EW systems and capabilities across a range of engineering disciplines.
• Lead systems architecture activities and guide multidisciplinary teams covering RF, electronics, software, signal processing, FPGA, and mechanical engineering.
• Identify technical risks, opportunities, and dependencies and drive effective solutions.
• Contribute to capability roadmaps alongside technical and commercial leadership teams.
• Support customer engagement, technical proposals, and business growth activities.
• Maintain awareness of emerging EW technologies, threat systems, and defence developments.
• Represent the business at industry events, conferences, and customer meetings.
• Mentor engineers and help build technical capability across the wider organisation.
• Support trials, demonstrations, and evaluations in the UK and overseas. About You You will have:
• Significant experience in Electronic Warfare systems architecture, systems engineering, or defence technology development.
• Strong expertise in at least one of the following areas:
• Systems Architecture
• RF & Electronics
• Signal Processing
• Software Engineering
• FPGA Development
• A deep understanding of EW concepts, threat systems, operational environments, and defence applications.
• Experience leading technically complex projects, products, or programmes.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Experience supporting bids, proposals, or business development activities.
• The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
• Eligibility and willingness to obtain UK DV and NATO Secret security clearance. Desirable Experience
• Established relationships across UK Defence, MOD, industry, or international defence organisations.
• Experience supporting operational trials and demonstrations.
• Maritime Electronic Warfare experience.
• Team leadership or line management experience. What's on Offer
• Highly competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunity to influence the direction of cutting-edge EW technologies.
• Varied and challenging technical work across multiple domains.
• Excellent professional development and career progression opportunities.
• Collaborative and supportive engineering culture.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Location: South Cambridgeshire. If you're passionate about delivering next-generation Electronic Warfare capability and want to play a leading role in solving some of defence's most complex technical challenges, get in touch for a confidential discussion.