Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer 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