Key skills
Leadership
About this role
Role Overview
- Lead the definition of technical solutions, from requirements capture through to system architecture and design
- Provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver solutions to cost, schedule, and quality
- Support bid activities by interpreting customer requirements and shaping robust, competitive solutions
- Plan, estimate, and deliver engineering work packages aligned to programme objectives
- Ensure compliance with engineering governance, including Thales Chorus 2 and project Engineering Management Plans
- Manage technical risks, opportunities, and mitigation strategies throughout the lifecycle
- Own and maintain the system design baseline through to customer acceptance
- Support integration, verification, validation, qualification, and acceptance (IVVQ) activities
- Lead technical investigations and resolve system-level and equipment-level issues
- Review and manage design changes, problem reports, and technical queries
- Prepare and present key design documentation, including validation and certification artefacts
Requirements
- Proven experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams on complex systems programmes
- Strong background across the full systems engineering lifecycle (requirements, design, integration, V&V, acceptance)
- Experience working within structured governance frameworks and design review milestones (SRR, PDR, CDR, etc.)
- Ability to define system and subsystem specifications from high-level requirements
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, including customer-facing experience and leading design reviews
- Knowledge of naval environments and constraints (e.g. shock, vibration, EMC, TEMPEST, safety, cyber, ILS)
- Experience with naval communications systems, infrastructure, and operational architectures is highly desirable
- Familiarity with installation, commissioning, and trials in a naval or defence context
- Proactive, collaborative, and comfortable working in complex, fast-paced programme environments
Benefits
- 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