System Solution Engineer (Technical Pre-sales)

  •  Job Reference: 157839
  •  Industry: Aerospace
  •  Bonus Package: R1219552
  •  Salary Description: 02C3423

Responsibilities:
• Engage customers and stakeholders to gather and translate requirements into clear 
system definitions, solution boundaries, and cost implications
• Lead proposal consolidation and support solution design definition, working with 
Architects, Engineers, Subcontractors, and partners to produce practical and compliant 
responses
• Consolidate subsystem specifications and validate proposed solutions against 
requirements, ensuring traceability and identifying gaps or misalignments early
• Ensure compliance and test case requirements are clearly defined and captured during 
the requirements gathering phase, so that delivered solutions can be systematically 
validated against contractual, regulatory, and technical acceptance criteria.
• Assess scalability, integration, and deployment considerations alongside technical 
teams, flagging risks and trade-offs throughout the design process
• Build and maintain Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) models, cost estimates, and work 
package definitions to give Bid teams a solid foundation for proposal submissions
• Support delivery and account managers in walking customers through solution 
approaches, effort justifications, and costing discussions in a clear and credible way
• Develop and maintain technical documentation across the proposal and delivery 
lifecycle, and participate in technical reviews and validation activities at key project 
milestones


Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a 
related discipline, with at least 5 years of experience in systems engineering or analyst 
role
• Good analytical and communication skills, comfortable bridging technical and business 
conversations, with a self-driven mindset and the ability to take ownership and deliver 
work independently.
• Hands-on experience preparing cost or effort estimates for technical projects, with 
exposure to subcontractor or vendor management being good to have.
• Background in security projects, complex IT systems, supporting government projects is 
a plus, as is familiarity with systems engineering frameworks such as INCOSE ASEP or 
CSEP