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# Senior Engineer (Software Assurance)

- **Company:** SYSTRA
- **Location:** Birmingham, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £41,502.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Requirements Management, Software Configuration Management, Software Engineering, Software Verification, Information Technology, EN 50128
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5867284008

## About the Role

We currently have an opportunity for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our growing Systems Engineering and Assurance discipline. This position will suit a committed and ambitious engineer who can demonstrate strong interpersonal skills combined with commercial awareness and the ability to play their part in growing a dynamic high-performance team., * Degree in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering or similar

 * Software lifecycle(s)
 * Software Planning (SQAP, SV&VP and SCMP)
 * SW Requirements Management
 * Software design and architecture principles and techniques
 * Traceability management
 * Software Change Management
 * Software Testing and principles knowledge
 * Software Verification and Validation
 * Software Configuration Management
 * EN 50128 and/or EN 50657 knowledge

Desirable:

 * IEC/EN 61508 knowledge
 * EN 50716 Knowledge
 * IEC 12207 Knowledge

## Description

Working with the Team Lead (Security and Software Assurance) to provide the following to our clients, including:

 * Software technical support and independent services across a number of Railway projects.
 * Support technical activities from planning phase up to Validation and SW maintenance, and support the system level, including the definition of an appropriate software acceptance plan for complex systems.
 * Independent reviews or software assurance activities/acceptance, including gap analysis and incident investigation.


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