Processor Product Architect in Crawley

Location: Crawley, United Kingdom. Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we 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. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Thales Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) UK is a principal supplier of UAS, EW and Radar equipment to the UK armed forces, as well as an exporter of these capabilities worldwide. ISR is a highly complex product development environment, focusing on delivering cutting edge products including:

• Digital Radar Electronic Support Measures (RESM) that provides situational awareness and identify threats even in busy Electronic Transmission Environments.
• Radar Electronic Countermeasures (RECM) that can protect assets by denying tactical advantage and distracting incoming threats.

We’re growing and we are looking for ambitious Engineers and Architects to join us on the journey. We are actively recruiting a Processor Product Architect at an ‘SME’ or Technical Expert level to join us. This role would lead the development of complex real time processing of signals, taking vast amounts of data from the electromagnetic spectrum and processing it in real time to analyse and identify emitters, and present an understandable picture to the end user. This exciting and multi-disciplinary role will form a critical aspect of a larger system development associated with EW products and is at the forefront of the domain.

Key Responsibilities:

• To lead the design and development and own the product roadmap of processor solutions for both domestic and export portfolios.
• To create a cohesive product line offering and collaborate with other product line architects to ensure cohesion and balancing new design with reuse.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure optimal design, ensuring integration across multiple projects, working closely with systems, software and hardware teams.
• 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.
• Establish the solution architecture by making trade-offs between stakeholder expectations, technical and technological solutions and costs, risks and schedule, document the associated artefacts (architecture justification in the design and justification file, product breakdown structure, system/segment design document) and approve the resulting lower-level specifications (internal or external).
• 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).
• Support the development of engineers through coaching and mentoring.
• Support product development through entire lifecycle from bid concept to manufacture and in-service support.
• Knowledge & adherence to industry standard, regulatory requirements and compliance, safety and cyber requirements.

Skills, experience and knowledge required of the successful candidate:

• Bachelors or higher in Electronics/Electrical Engineering or related field.
• Excellent problem solving skills with the ability to present complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in modern processor/high performance hardware design.
• Experience in Single board computers, PCIExpress backplanes, high speed data, real time signal processing, high speed fibre optic interfaces.
• Experience and understanding of leveraging new technologies including novel techniques, AI within modern processors and FPGAs.
• Experience in Matlab modelling and simulation environments.
• Awareness of agile software development.
• Ability to work confidently with multiple projects and priorities.

Your Career at Thales UK:

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.

What we can offer:

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, 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.

Security Clearance Statement:

This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant will undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance. To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.

For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the National Security Vetting (NSV) Agency - United Kingdom Security Vetting - GOV.UK.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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