Senior Systems Engineer

Title: Senior Systems Engineer

Location: Australia

Job Description:

• Employees work in a hybrid mode
• Full-time
• State/Province: Victoria
• Business Group: DCS
• Legal Entity: AECOM Australia Pty Ltd
• Business Line: Transportation
• Work Location Model: Hybrid
• Operating Group: International
• Primary Location: AU - Melbourne, VIC - 8 Siddeley Str

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

The Senior Systems Integration & Systems Engineer is responsible for leading systems engineering and integration activities across the project lifecycle. The role ensures that complex systems are designed, integrated, verified, and delivered in accordance with customer, operational, and regulatory requirements.

Working across multidisciplinary teams, the engineer provides technical leadership in requirements management, system integration, interface management, verification and validation, and engineering assurance. The role requires strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to coordinate technical activities across multiple engineering disciplines and suppliers.

What you’ll do

• Apply and tailor Systems Engineering lifecycle processes to project scope, complexity, risk and delivery model.
• Define systems: analyse stakeholder and operational needs, develop the System Breakdown Structure (SBS), perform functional decomposition and set system boundaries.
• Manage requirements end to end (elicitation, analysis, development, allocation, traceability, baselining, compliance and verification), including maintaining RVTMs.
• Develop functional and physical architectures; allocate functions and requirements to system elements and define relationships across systems and subsystems.
• Identify and manage internal and external interfaces and dependencies; support multidisciplinary teams to resolve interface issues.
• Plan Systems Integration: define integration dependencies, sequencing, constraints, risks and coordination across disciplines and delivery partners.
• Assess change impacts and apply structured technical risk and decision management to maintain system integrity.
• Provide senior technical input to design and technical reviews; identify gaps, inconsistencies and integration risks and drive timely resolution.
• Produce high-quality Systems Engineering plans, reports, specifications and technical documentation.
• Lead defined work packages to agreed scope, schedule and budget.
• Mentor Systems Engineers and graduates; help build our Systems Engineering capability.
• Support client engagement and proposals, contributing to methods, scopes and estimates.

Qualifications

Systems Engineering is a broad discipline, and we recognise that candidates develop expertise through different career paths. You do not need to meet every requirement below to apply. If you have a strong Systems Engineering foundation, relevant experience across some of these areas and believe you would be a good fit for the role, we encourage you to apply.
 

• Tertiary qualification in engineering, Systems Engineering or a related STEM discipline.
• Demonstrated delivery of Systems Engineering on complex projects (transport, infrastructure, technology or safety-critical environments).
• Proficiency in Requirements Engineering and Management (IBM DOORS/DOORS Next or similar), including RVTMs.
• Experience in Systems Architecture and SBS development.
• Interface identification and management; Systems Integration planning.
• Understanding of Verification and Validation across the lifecycle.
• Ability to independently apply and tailor Systems Engineering lifecycle processes to context.
• Experience delivering technical work packages and guiding junior team members.
• Professional accreditation (e.g., CPEng, RPEQ, INCOSE CSEP/ASEP) is valued, or progress toward it.

Nice to have

• ConOps/OpsCon development and translation into system definition and requirements.
• SEMP and supporting Requirements Management, V&V and Systems Integration plans or strategies.
• Advanced or administration experience with IBM DOORS/DOORS Next.
• Exposure to MBSE and architecture modelling (e.g., Capella or similar).
• Operational readiness and transition planning.
• Configuration Management and change control.
• Testing, commissioning and integration verification experience.

Additional Information

• Flexible work arrangements, including alternative start/finish times, job-sharing and hybrid work options
• Purchase up to 6 weeks additional annual leave per year
• Volunteer and representation leave
• Flex public holidays – swap Easter or other holidays for ones that suit you better

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including those with disabilities, additional health or mental health needs, and/or neurodiverse conditions. If you require any adjustments during the hiring process, please let us know.

Applications are reviewed as they come in, and the role may close earlier than expected, so if this opportunity sounds like you, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.