Senior Systems Engineer
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ROLE DESCRIPTION SUMMARY
The Senior Systems Engineer will engage with key stakeholders, including; solution architects, speciality engineers (Safety, Security, HF), ILS and ATM subject matter experts to prepare and deliver requirement and design changes with reference to a defined system functional baseline to satisfy customer needs and project/bid cost targets.
KEY ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
As a Sr. Systems Engineer, you are accountable for:
- Design, develop and document solutions to meet customer requirements, whilst ensuring the integrity of the System functional baseline and architecture
- Define solutions that deliver the best trade-off between requirements, cost, schedule and risk, which meet our customer’s needs
- Ensure the transversal constraints related to the function are considered (Safety, Human Factor, Performance, Security)
- Proactively participate in the technical reviews, including internal and with the Customer
- Proactively participate in technical working groups both internally and externally to define technical solution
- Proactively participate in PI planning and backlog refinement including contributing to the effort estimation
- Prepare Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs) and Problem Change Requests (PCRs)
- Develop and manage traceability of requirements using DOORS, including the Functional, Allocated and Product baselines.
- Perform peer reviews of engineering documentation written by other team members
- Support your Squad members (software, integration and verification)
- Support the Product Owner (PO) and Scrum Master (SM)
- Make recommendations on strategies to improve performance or productivity
- Identify risks, and proposing effective solution early and executing mitigation actions
- Provide input into the planning and coordination of program integration activities
- Promote knowledge sharing ensuring that work is captured sufficiently for re-use across projects
- Provide technical oversight to the Squads within the broader team, ensuring that the designed solution is implemented as per the design and in accordance to the schedule and cost and quality constraints.
- Define and report on KPIs for the function
- Work in accordance with the defined Thales processes and practices, and contribute to their improvement.
KEY KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
To be successful in your role, you will have demonstrated and/or acquired the following knowledge and experience:
Qualifications
- Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline
- Postgraduate studies in Systems Engineering (Desirable)
Essential Experience
- Proven experience in Systems Engineering (5+ years) including; Requirements, Design, Integration and Verification and Validation
- Experience with Systems Engineering Standards eg. ISO/IEC15288
- Proven experience in the ATM Domain and related standards eg. ICAO, Eurocontrol
- Proven experience in the development of products and projects in a variety of methodologies, with a particular focus on iterative/agile development
- Experience with Safety, Security and Human Factors standards and practices
- Demonstrated ability to achieve effective outcomes in a multidiscipline, multi-culture environment
- Coaching and sharing of his/her know-how
- Capability to manage various stakeholders having different objectives
- A positive attitude combined with excellent interpersonal and motivational skills.
- Comfort in facing and managing complexity
- Sound judgement and independent decision-making capability where necessary
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
Desirable:
- Experience in System Engineering tools eg. DOORs, Polarian, Jira
- Experience in Model Based Systems Engineering and tools eg. Capella, Enterprise Architect
- Experience in working in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
General / Special Requirements
- Assist in ensuring a harmonious work environment in all departments that you are working with by upholding Thales' key values.
- An advocate for diversity and inclusion who will be actively involved in implementing change initiatives to achieve our diversity goals
- An advocate for a culture of continuous improvement
- An advocate for Accountability, transparency and curiosity
- Comply with all relevant company Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental policies and framework and work practices with the intent of preventing or minimising accidental exposures to self, colleagues, visitors and/or the environment and to ensure a safe work practises at all times.
- Comply with all relevant Company policies and procedures.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
- Occasional international travel may be required
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Senior Systems Engineer at Thales scores 36 out of 100 on AI centrality, which makes it AI Level 1 of 4 (Little AI) on this board. The level measures how much of the work is AI, not seniority.
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