Airborne Systems Architect - MBSE & SC Clearance

Thales; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Cycle to work scheme

Employee discounts

Annual bonus

Stock and shares

Job summary

Thales is seeking an experienced Systems Architect to deliver architecture for airborne products. The role is based in Reading with hybrid working arrangements and may require travel to customer sites and integration facilities.

The successful candidate will define architectures, model using MBSE approaches, manage technical requirements and collaborate with a multi-disciplinary engineering team to deliver programmes.

Qualifications

• Understanding fundamentals of Systems Engineering methodologies around Design, Verification, Validation, Qualification and Acceptance.
• Experience deriving system capabilities, functionalities and behaviours, ideally using Model Based Systems Engineering & SysML approaches.
• Understanding of the different actors involved in projects with the ability to contextualise and change the perspective.
• Self-motivated and capable of working alone & with teams.
• Proven experience in product design in an engineering or research environment.
• Must have good communication skills.
• Experience producing documentation with clarity and precision.
• Be prepared to challenge other's views and willing to accept constructive feedback.
• IBM DOORS or an equivalent requirements management tool.
• Enterprise Architect / Capella / Rhapsody or similar MBSE tool.
• MATLAB or an equivalent simulation/modelling tool (Desirable).
• Knowledge of analogue and digital circuit design (Desirable).
• Expertise in Lan Systems and Armoured Fighting Vehicle domains (Desira ble).
• Knowledge and experience of open vehicle architectures (Desirable).

Responsibilities

• Defining and recommending candidate architectures for the corresponding level to satisfy stakeholder expectations according to standards and reuse policies.
• Establishing the solution architecture by making trade-offs and documenting artefacts and lower-level specifications.
• Planning work, writing and verifying technical requirements, producing technical reports and specifications.
• Performing systems analyses, meeting milestones and working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Applying a systems thinking approach to architecture design for the lifecycle of the product.
• Deriving and modelling the solution architecture using ARCADIA MBSE approaches.
• Identifying methods to test and validate the architecture.
• Detailing the design and documenting design decisions and rationale.
• Developing the system design in accordance with requirements.
• Managing technical requirements flow-down from customer to sub-systems.
• Supporting engineering reviews and preparing associated technical documentation.

Skills

Systems Engineering

MBSE & SysML

Stakeholder awareness

Self-motivation

Product design experience

Communication

Technical writing

Critical thinking

Requirements tools

MBSE tools

MATLAB

Circuit design

LAN Systems AFV

Open vehicle architectures

Tools

IBM DOORS

Enterprise Architect

Capella

Rhapsody

MATLAB

Job description

Thales is seeking an experienced Systems Architect to deliver architecture for airborne products. The role is based in Reading with hybrid working arrangements and may require travel to customer sites and integration facilities.

The successful candidate will define architectures, model using MBSE approaches, manage technical requirements and collaborate with a multi-disciplinary engineering team to deliver programmes.