Electronic Warfare System Architect

WeAreTechWomen; Crawley; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Car allowance

Private healthcare

Relocation support

Training & development

Job summary

Thales UK is seeking an EW Systems Architect to define and recommend architectures for radar and EW solutions, balancing stakeholder expectations, technology options and costs. You will lead the engineering effort across the lifecycle, document architectures, manage interfaces, and support co-engineering and agile collaboration with customers and partners.

The role requires an engineering or scientific degree, strong leadership, initiative, and excellent communication skills to engage with

Qualifications

• Engineering or scientific degree is required with proven architecture and systems engineering experience.
• Leadership and initiative are essential; you are proactive and collaborative.
• Good communication and relationship skills with customers and teams are expected.

Responsibilities

• Define and recommend candidate architectures for the corresponding level to satisfy stakeholder expectations according to standards and roadmaps.
• Establish the solution architecture by balancing stakeholders, technical solutions, costs, risks and schedule; document artefacts.
• Assist in the solution development cycle and define the co-engineering approach.
• Manage requirements, performance evaluation and interfaces across the project lifecycle and negotiate with stakeholders.

Skills

EW domain concepts

DSP

System design

RF systems

RF budgets

Education

Engineering or Scientific degree

Job description

Location: Crawley, United Kingdom

Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services.

Thales Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) UK is a principal supplier of Electronic Warfare (EW), Radar and UAS equipment to the UK armed forces, as well as an exporter of these capabilities worldwide.

We are looking for senior engineers with the skills and experience to enhance our EW portfolio, delivering cutting edge products including:

• Digital Radar Electronic Support Measures (RESM) that provides situational awareness and identify threats even in busy electronic transmission environments
• Radar Electronic Countermeasures (RECM) that can protect assets by denying tactical advantage and distracting incoming threats.

We are seeking EW Systems Architects with experience of working within the field of Electronic Warfare and/or Radar, or related fields such as RESM, CESM, ECM or similar. You will have prior knowledge of the key principles of the domain and can quickly grasp the science and technology that sits behind a modern digital EW suite. You may have a military background, having operated EW equipment in the field, or have worked in the design, development or testing of similar products.

As an EW Systems Architect you’ll be working alongside other engineers, procurement and production teams to drive our EW product line forward, both in terms of Features and Non-Functional characteristics to meet the growing demands of our customers.

Role Description

In an EW System and Solution Architecture Role within Thales, you will:

• Define and recommend candidate architectures for the corresponding level (solution or solution element) to satisfy stakeholder expectations according to the standards and re-use policies, the technology roadmap and the business strategy
• Establish the solution architecture by making trade-offs between stakeholder expectations, technical and technological solutions and costs, risks and schedule, document the associated artefacts (architecture justification in the design and justification file, product breakdown structure, system/segment design document) and approve the resulting lower-level specifications (internal or external)
• Assist in the solution development cycle and in defining the co-engineering approach
• Manage, all along the project life cycle, the assignment of the corresponding level requirements, the management of the performance evaluation and the critical parameters, the definition of the interfaces, the technical negotiation between the different stakeholders (internal or external).

Principal Relationships

• EW Product Line Engineers, Architects and Managers
• EW Project Delivery Teams (including Project Management)
• Domain Technical and Engineering Managers
• Domain Functional Management
• The wider multi-discipline engineering team

Profile

• You graduated with an Engineering or Scientific degree, and you have significant experience in architecture and engineering systems
• You are a leader willing to engage and develop your team through the use of collaborative work and challenging approaches
• You are responsible and show a great sense of initiative
• You are convincing and persuasive
• You like to be involved with the customer
• You have good communication and relationship skills

Competencies

• You are aware of the description of the operational concept
• You have a deep knowledge of the field and its technical strategy
• You are familiar with operational analysis
• You are able to work in co-engineering (Lean Thinking, Obeya...)
• You understand the different actors involved in the project and are able to contextualise and change the perspective (political, economic, social, technical, environmental, legal...)
• You are familiar with Concept, Design, Experimentation and Simulation tools, as well as modelling tools and frameworks
• You are familiar with working with Integration Verification Validation Qualification and Agile methods

Desired Knowledge or Skills

• Experience in EW Domain concepts
• Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
• System Design
• RF Systems (EW, CESM, Comms)
• RF Performance Modelling/Budgets

Your Career at Thales UK

Future opportunities will allow you to discover other domains or sites. You will be able to evolve and grow your Competencies in different areas:

• Room and attention to personal development
• Build your talents in another domain of Thales Group, discovering new products, new customers, new country or go to a more complex Solution
• Choose between a technical expertise or a leadership path
• Build an international career within a leading Engineering Group

What we can offer

We are committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Our packages will include significant bonus, car allowance, a strong pension contribution, private healthcare, development focused targets and relocation support can be provided if required along with a variety of learning, development and career enhancement opportunities. Further support can be provided towards academic and membership attainments.

Security Clearance Statement

This role will require UK Security Check (SC) clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant will undergo, achieve, and maintain SC clearance.

To be eligible for full SC clearance, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.

For further details of the evidence required to apply for a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check and SC please refer to the United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) website: United Kingdom Security Vetting - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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