Systems Architect

In this role, you will play a central part in shaping the architecture and technical direction of our marine electronics ecosystem. You'll work closely with Product Management to turn new concepts and customer-driven features into clear, actionable specifications that guide development from the very start.

A key part of your impact will be your ability to communicate complex technical ideas with clarity, confidence, and influence. You'll translate constraints, trade-offs, design decisions, and possibilities for a wide range of stakeholders-ensuring alignment, enabling good decisions, and keeping cross-functional teams moving together in the right direction.

You'll evaluate emerging technologies, monitor competitive trends, and identify both risks and opportunities that inform long-term system development. Your insight will help ensure our products remain innovative, robust, and compliant with evolving standards.

Working as part of a team of discipline-specific architects, you'll combine strong systems thinking with exceptional communication to shape reliable, future-ready solutions that delight our customers and support our strategic roadmap.

Your job in plain text

• Work with the Product Management team, to understand new features and solutions in the pipeline.
• Decompose required functionality across products. Identify, specify and control product interfaces and interactions.
• Identify project dependencies, work with project managers to ensure coordinated, timely introduction of features across multiple product development streams.
• Create product specifications ensuring essential features, standards and compliance requirements are captured at the outset of projects.
• Communicate technical reasoning, constraints and decisions clearly across teams to ensure shared understanding and alignment.
• Assist teams to create comprehensive test plans.
• Represent and promote the long-term goals of system development.
• Recognise and promote design re-use.
• Track emerging technologies, innovations, and obsolescence.
• Competitor awareness - understand who the key competitors and emerging threats are. Assess the technical strengths and pitfalls of the products and feature sets they offer.
• Maintain a shared architectural roadmap within a group of other systems and product architects.

We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins., * A degree level qualification in Software, Electronic or Systems Engineering or related discipline.

• Significant experience as a Systems Architect (or similar technical leadership role) working across network systems, software solutions and embedded hardware products.
• Strong, practical knowledge in several of the following areas:

• Communications networks, especially CAN, Ethernet, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
• System design methodologies.
• Hardware and software design principles.

• Exceptional technical communication skills.
• A solid grasp on modern requirement management and definition principles.
• Proven ability to work effectively in cross-functional engineering teams and to build alignment across multiple disciplines.
• Familiarity with sailing and or power boating (advantageous but not essential).
• A willingness to travel occasionally within the UK and internationally when required.

·Opportunity to develop your career with one of the leading marine electronics companies.

·At Raymarine, you get a unique opportunity to experience how cutting-edge R&D, software- and hardware development come together under one roof.

·Friendly culture with a focus on collaboration, problem-solving, and creativity.

·Competitive compensation structure and benefits