Systems Engineer & Analyst

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems. - Primary Purpose of the Role: To manage the Systems Engineering Process to company and international standards for defined packages of work. To provide line management and technical leadership to Systems Engineers. The Systems Architect typically works with a team of engineers to define what will be designed, how it will perform and how it will be determined that it is working correctly - Key Responsibilities and Tasks: *Converts requirements into conceptual designs and prepares associated documentation by performing operational analyses, simulations and technical trade-off studies evaluating alternative design configurations and functional features. *Good understanding of the development lifecycle and lifecycle products. *Interfacing with the client, to gain approval of test specifications and to host acceptance testing activities. *Help develop and execute Test Specifications including: *Support the development of test plans and test strategy documents *Support the development of test specifications, working from system requirements. *Execute test specifications (according to test plan and project schedule) *Record and/or authorise results of test execution *Raise/investigate/verify defects *Maintain quality target/standard *Able to create and/or authorise outline designs from requirements using a variety of design toolsets *Similarly creates new concepts or modifies existing concepts to fulfil requirements where necessary *Prepares system & subsystem requirement specifications, interface requirements and test requirement documents by analysing, decomposing modelling and refining customer requirements. *Prepares system operational plans and reports that explain how the equipment being developed meets requirements. Operational design limits are evaluated and defined; performance analyses and simulations are developed & performed to support the above.

*Able to use a range of IT tools (e.g. MS Office, MS Visio, etc). *Has a sound ability to use system engineering tools. (e.g. DOORS, System Architect, JIRA) *Has a working knowledge of configuration control. *Can manage a project through a defined process and is able to tailor CHORUS2 to project needs. *Can define metrics as part of Quality assurance & control. *Working knowledge of project plans. *Has a working knowledge of Engineering Safety Management