Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) Systems Architect in Crawley

Location: Crawley, 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.

We are seeking an Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) System Architect with experience of working within the field of Electronic Warfare, or related fields such as RESM, CESM, ECM or similar. You will have prior knowledge of the key principles of the domain and can quickly grasp the science and technology that sits behind a modern digital EW suite. You may have a military background, having operated EW equipment in the field, or have worked in the design, development or testing of similar products.

As a System Architect within Thales, you will:

• Act as the customer’s technical representation within the project delivery, owning the specification of requirements on their behalf and ensuring that the delivered system meets the customers statement of needs.
• Act as the principle point of escalation for safety and security for the project, liaising with domain design authorities, cyber authorities and safety authorities to ensure the delivery of safe and secure systems to our customers.
• Act as a senior mentor to engineers, guiding their work and ensuring the quality of engineering products.
• Own the engineering and technical governance processes within the project, holding the delivery team to account and ensuring adherence with legislative and contractual obligations.
• Work with systems architects to define and recommend candidate architectures for the corresponding level (solution or solution element) to satisfy stakeholder expectations according to the standards and re-use policies, the technology roadmap and the business strategy.
• Assist in the solution development cycle and in defining the co-engineering approach.
• Manage, all along the project life cycle, the assignment of the corresponding level requirements, the management of the performance evaluation and the critical parameters, the definition of the interfaces, the technical negotiation between the different stakeholders (internal or external).

Graduated with a degree in an engineering or scientific discipline, and you have significant experience in architecture and engineering systems. You are a leader willing to engage and develop your team through the use of collaborative work and challenging approaches.

Detailed experience in one of the following areas:

• Electronic Counter Measures;
• Electronic Warfare System Design;
• RF System Design & Specification;
• EW Techniques.

Familiar with Concept, Design, Experimentation and Simulation tools, as well as modelling tools (such as MBSE). Experience of Design Assurance & Third Party Development. Familiar with working with Integration Verification Validation. You are responsible and show a great sense of initiative. Experienced liaising directly with the customer and managing customer requirements. You are familiar with operational analysis. You are able to work in co-engineering (Lean Thinking, Obeya...). You understand the different actors involved in the project and are able to contextualise and change the perspective (political, economic, social, technical, environmental, legal...).

Future opportunities will allow you to discover other domains or sites. You will be able to evolve and grow your competencies in different areas:

• Room and attention to personal development.
• Build your talents in another domain of Thales Group, discovering new products, new customers, new country or go to a more complex Solution.
• Choose between a technical expertise or a leadership path.
• Build an international career within a leading Engineering Group.

We are committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Our packages will include significant bonus, car allowance, a strong pension contribution, private healthcare, development focused targets and relocation support can be provided if required along with a variety of learning, development and career enhancement opportunities. Further support can be provided towards academic and membership attainments.

Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions. This role requires you to be a sole British National from birth and achieve Security Clearance (SC) without any caveats. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance prior to commencing employment.

At Thales, we ensure equal opportunities, pay and working conditions for all. The benefits we offer include private medical insurance, buying or selling annual leave, cycle to work schemes, employee discounts, paid volunteering day, stocks and shares, annual bonus and much more depending on the role. We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued for who they are and the unique strengths they bring.

If this role isn’t quite right for you, we encourage you to join our talent community where your details will be shared with our recruitment teams for other potential opportunities.

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