Location: Cheadle, United Kingdom

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.

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.

Hardware Architect

Cheadle - with some flexibility to work from home.

Overview

Thales UK provides armed forces with crucial military technology, including sophisticated Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, Targeting Acquisition and Reconnaissance (C4ISTAR) systems.

The aim: to provide a cohesive, rapid response capability to protect our service personnel and defend national interests.

We have invested more than £2bn in the UK within the last 10 years and are the second largest defence systems supplier globally.

Our Maritime Systems Hardware Team which design and develop Autonomous Defence Systems are recruiting for a Hardware Architect. This role is technically responsible for the hardware architecture and its consistency with the solution/system architecture.

They coordinate with the Solution Architect and Project Design Authority in order to make sure that the top down refinement of the solution is consistent with the hardware strategy and constraints including COTS selection and components reuse.

This role would suited to Hardware Engineers, or Electronics Engineer with experience of full lifecycle development and are looking to take on more technical responsibility within a unique field.

The role

The Hardware Architect works collaboratively with the Hardware Products Manager and Hardware Products Architect to ensure the design is based on existing Products (building blocks) as much as practicable to capitalise on cost benefits, design efficiencies and to reduce technical debt.

The role operates works within the team allocated to provide the architectural solution and ensure technical compliance of their work with the solution requirements.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

Ensure that hardware architecture stability is maintained across lifecycle phases from Bid to Delivery

Direct and coordinate hardware architecture studies

Approve the technical, technological and methodological choices taken in respect of the selected hardware architecture

Guarantee adherence to in-scope standards, reuse policy and product development plans

Identify modelling, simulation and prototyping opportunities

Co-ordinate product definition and assessment of trade-offs between aspects of cost, customer requirements and technological possibilities

Prepare the Design & Justification Files

Provide knowledge on state-of-the-art hardware architecting, taking account of future developments

Experience

Level 6 Qualification in a hardware engineering related discipline e.g. BEng(Hons) Electronic or Mechanical Engineering

Evidence of the ability to architecturally design a solution in line with requirements, including the ability to derive high level requirements

Ability to collaborate effectively with other engineers to develop a solution

Knowledge of the Engineering Development Lifecycle with experience in V&V, Requirements, Certification or Qualification.

Desirable

Chartered Engineer

Knowledge of Lean & Agile Development techniques

INCOSE CSEP

Model based solution design experience

What we can offer

We’re 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.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us.

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.

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.

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