Lead Systems Engineer

We enable forces to gather timely, meaningful information so they can make thoughtful, decisive choices that safeguard communities. For more than 130 years, we’ve championed the development of Optronics for military, scientific and commercial applications. Our expertise covers three sectors: Air, Land and Sea.

An opportunity has arisen for a Lead Systems Engineer within Thales OME, the role is based in Glasgow and may require some travel and time spent at other Thales sites, Customer sites or integration and test facilities.

As a Lead Systems Engineer you will be responsible for leading the systems design activities throughout the engineering project lifecycle involving:

Definition of the technical solution, including requirements elicitation and decomposition, and architecture from Operational Concepts through to Solution Architecture

Definition, management and de-risking of the interfaces through and between the system functional chains

Definition of the interfaces between the solution and the solution elements

Upfront Integration, Validation, Verification and Qualification (IVVQ) activities to support the IVVQ Manager and supporting IVVQ throughout the lifecycle

Design trades offs to establish an optimal design, ensuring that key design decisions are made, captured and communicated across all of the project stakeholders to meet the schedule demands

Leading de-risk activities to explore solution designs and functionality, and to identify potential risk areas during IVVQ and sell-off

Collaborating across all disciplines for the complete solution design, this includes: coherence of low level design to system design alignment of technical dependencies across the other disciplines and business areas understanding of technical assumptions and constraints identification of technical risks and their mitigations undertake workpackage management of key systems workpackages

coherence of low level design to system design

alignment of technical dependencies across the other disciplines and business areas

understanding of technical assumptions and constraints