Systems Architects

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Location: Remote UK, United Kingdom

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow’s possible.

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 five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, 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.

System Architect

Locations: We are recruiting in Crawley, Cheadle (Greater Manchester), Templecombe (Somerset), Reading, Belfast, Glasgow and Bristol.

We’re a 6,500 strong team of experts, located across the UK. We have unrivalled experience across every major industry we serve - working around the clock to make life better and keep us safer. You’ll find us in the air, on the ground, on the surface and in the depths of the oceans, orbiting the earth and cyberspace too. Our solutions cover defence, security, transport, aerospace and space in the UK.

Your health, well-being and work/life balance matters to us and that’s why we offer you as much flexibility as possible regarding remote and hybrid working. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions. We offer flexible start and finish times, the opportunity to job share and many of our roles can also be worked on a part time basis.

What’s on offer?

We are looking for System Architects to join the Central Engineering team that are challenged with supporting complex projects across the 15 areas of the business. The primary purpose of this position is to define and implement Systems Architecture strategy, management and tasks for key business projects across a range of domains.

Responsibilities

You’ll be supporting one or more projects, in a domain (may be Land, Sea or Air products) and be accountable to the Solutions Engineering Manager on the project/program. As a practitioner/expert in Systems Architecture, you will have a wide range of responsibilities depending on the specific tasks in hand which may typically include the following:

• Provide engineering leadership and guidance and, define the system architecture and the associated process, practices and tools (PP&T) applicable to the product based on project specific constraints (eg tools imposed by the Customer).
• Maintain and improve professional standards – increasing the robustness of engineering governance on the project and act as a guide to the engineering community on solution architecture engineering methods and their application.
• Acting as a technical assessor and advisor and define architecture engineering competency profiles and levels – ideally having relevant professional registration (CEng)
• Be responsible for development of system models, and integration of modelling components from within the supported team and from other project areas
  
  

Experience needed:

• Demonstrable ability to produce solution architectures that satisfy customer needs and are compliant to customer requirements; a comprehensive understanding of architecture frameworks, architectural modelling techniques and management processes
• Experience of architectural modelling of Systems, from operational analysis and subsequent system level architecture through to physical level architectures in tools such as Enterprise Architect, Capella, MOOD, Rhapsody etc.
• Ability to clarify requirements from, and present, visualise, interpret and summarise models to a wide range of stakeholders
• Experience of requirements capture, decomposition and management (e.g. in DOORS)
  
  

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. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

Typical Benefits

• Pension – Thales match, plus 1%, with a max contribution of 7%
• Health Insurance – 50% of Salary for 5 years
• Life Assurance – 2 x Minimum (higher if part of the Pension Scheme)
• Private Medical Insurance
• Annual Leave 201 hours + 1 Company day (27 Days + Bank Holidays)
• Annual Bonus or Overtime dependant on grade.
• 37 Hours per week. (Typically Half Day Friday)
  
  

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. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

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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