Systems Engineer 600 - 675Inside IR35Hybrid (2 days a week onsite in London office)6 month initial contractLong term programme (extensions likely)Help deliver complex modelling and decision-support software used across defence, infrastructure, energy and government.SR2 is supporting a software consultancy to bring on an experienced Systems Engineer contractor to lead the design and delivery of scalable software solutions, working closely with customers, engineers and technical stakeholders.The role: Leading the technical delivery of customer projectsDesigning scalable, secure and resilient system architecturesTranslating customer requirements into practical technical solutionsWorking across cloud, integrations, data pipelines and distributed systemsProviding technical leadership to multidisciplinary engineering teamsManaging technical risk and driving engineering best practiceRequirements: Systems Engineering, Solution Architecture or Technical LeadershipDelivering complex enterprise software or distributed systemsCloud-native architectures and systems integrationDevOps, CI/CD and modern engineering practicesWorking directly with customers and senior stakeholdersDefence, government, infrastructure or other complex technical environments (desirable)Technology: AWS / Azure / GCPDistributed Systems and APIsSQL / NoSQL DatabasesDocker / KubernetesCI/CD and Infrastructure as CodeSecurity and Cloud ArchitectureCommercial overview: Long-term contractHybrid workingFlexible working ..... full job details .....