Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services.
Under Water Systems (UWS)
Our purpose is to be the leading provider of underwater sensors and decision superiority, helping navies across the world keep our friends, families and all of us safe. We cover four sectors: Mine Counter Measures, Anti-Submarine warfare, Services and Future Capabilities.
Primary Purpose of the Role:
To manage the Systems Engineering Process to company and international standards for defined packages of work. To provide line management and technical leadership to Systems Engineers.
The Systems Architect typically works with a team of engineers to define what will be designed, how it will perform and how it will be determined that it is working correctly
Key Responsibilities and Tasks:
- Converts requirements into conceptual designs and prepares associated documentation by performing operational analyses, simulations and technical trade-off studies evaluating alternative design configurations and functional features.
- Development lifecycle and lifecycle products.
- Interfacing with the client, to gain approval of test specifications and to host acceptance testing activities.
- Help develop and execute Test Specifications including:
- Support the development of test plans and test strategy documents
- Execute test specifications (according to test plan and project schedule)
- Record and/or authorise results of test execution
- Raise/investigate/verify defects
- Maintain quality target/standard
- Prepares system & subsystem requirement specifications, interface requirements and test requirement documents by analysing, decomposing modelling and refining customer requirements.
- Performs technical/engineering tasks to define system design and subsystem requirements details.
- Analysis and simulations are performed as necessary to identify design feasibility & driving requirements.
- Supervises staff, by defining their work, coaching them on how and what to prepare, monitoring their progress and directing them on priorities.
- Proposes work package estimates and descriptions based on knowledge of the work and project requirements, ensuring that compliant solutions at optimum cost are identified.
- Develop, implement and maintain tools relevant to the Systems Engineering function. Manage the assessment of relevant tools.
- Defines or proposes updates of processes and standards covering the work and its products based on knowledge of systems engineering.