Weapon System Architect (IAS)

Location: Belfast, United Kingdom

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.

Location: based in Belfast, minimum 3 days/week in office (hybrid)

Other: permanent, full-time

Would you like to work for a world-renowned department that research, develop and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better and keep us safer? Do you want to be part of a team of leading specialists that are designing solutions that make tomorrow possible, today?

What the role has to offer:

• Ability to work with state-of-the-art leading edge technology
• Developing solutions to complex problems on cutting edge defence equipment to deliver enhanced capabilities
• Working with a highly skilled, dynamic and forward-thinking team
• A growing business with great career opportunities

Our Opportunity:

As a Senior System Engineer, you will be designing state-of-the-art Fire Control and Air Defence Systems that deliver world-class performance to meet our customer's needs. Working within an agile multi-discipline team, responsibilities cover the whole product lifecycle from requirements capture and analysis, evaluating new technologies through to defining the system architecture and behaviour, optimising the design and onto building, testing and verifying that the solution meets the customer's requirements.

We are interested to talk to capable candidates from many backgrounds to understand what you can bring to the role. We have recently employed mechanical, electrical and software engineers, as well as physicists and others with prior systems engineering experience. A core capability of a Thales Systems Engineer is the ability to understand the full engineering landscape and different backgrounds can complement this in generating understanding from complexity.

What we offer you:

• Competitive salary and benefits package designed to support our employees' wellbeing and professional growth
• Performance-related bonus
• Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00
• 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) with opportunity to buy up to 40 hours/year (pro rata)
• 24 hours volunteering paid for
• Private healthcare
• Pension scheme
• Life cover
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
• Gym membership discounts

Main Responsibilities:

• Capture and translate customer, user and business needs into clear system requirements, use cases and functional definitions
• Define and develop system architecture, interfaces, behaviours and flow-down requirements, working closely with technical specialists to optimise performance
• Assess user deployment scenarios and evaluate candidate technologies, including emerging and novel solutions, to inform system design decisions
• Drive system design maturity through trade studies, analysis, prototyping, integration support and complex fault diagnosis
• Lead verification and compliance activities, ensuring requirements are met, while maintaining design documentation and mentoring junior team members

About You:

At Thales, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world's most critical challenges.

Ideal Experience & Skills:

• Acquired degree-level qualification in a scientific, engineering or numerate discipline (or equivalent experience), with the ability to obtain and maintain UK SC clearance
• Demonstrated systems engineering expertise across the full lifecycle, including requirements capture, system architecture, design, integration, testing and verification of complex systems
• Proven ability to define, manage and decompose requirements into robust system specifications, architectures, interfaces and behaviours