Job Requisition ID: R0268034
Location: Belfast, United Kingdom
Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems, Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.
What the role has to offer:
* Ability to work with state-of-the-art leading-edge technology
* Working with a highly skilled, dynamic, and forward-thinking team
* A growing business with great career opportunities
As a System Architect, 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 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.
The role requires collaborating in a multi-discipline team in the design and development process, covering one or more of the following activities:
* Understanding our customer and business needs leading to requirements capture, definition, and development.
* Understanding how the User will deploy the product in order to inform the system design.
* Defining the system architecture, interfaces, behaviour, and flow-down requirements.
* Working with specialists to inform and define the system design, behaviour, or performance.
* Developing and optimising the design through system trades, analyses, and prototyping.
* Defining verification activities and assessing evidence to ensure the delivered product is compliant with requirements.
* Diagnosing complex system faults found during integration and test.
* Capturing the design, decisions, and rationale in associated models, specifications, and other technical artefacts.
* Providing coaching and mentoring to other team members and sharing knowledge within the wider systems team.
About you:
You will ideally have a Bachelor Degree (BEng, BSc) in a Numerate, Scientific or Engineering field or equivalent as well as experience in many of the following areas:
* Requirements capture, management, and product specification.
* Knowledge of defence systems such as C2, Fire Control, Sensors, Effectors, etc.
* Experience in designing and defining systems, interfaces, and behaviours.
* Ability to design for Non-functional, EMC, Environmental, Eco, Security & Safety Requirements.
* Ability in designing for the appropriate Legislative and Regulatory requirements.
* Familiarity with defence standard requirements and common interface protocols.
* Proficient in system design processes, methods, and tools.
* Knowledge of modelling methods (SysML, etc.) and Defence Architectural Frameworks (e.g., MODAF, etc.).
* An understanding of the Systems, Hardware, and Software engineering lifecycles.
* Excellent analytical skills with proven capability to shape solutions out of complexity.
* Excellent communication skills able to articulate complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
* Self-motivated, innovative, and with a “can-do” and “lead by example” attitude.
In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK, and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided.
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