3 days ago
Crawley, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and own end-to-end cloud and data architectures for complex engineering programmes.
- Translate customer and business requirements into scalable, secure, and innovative solutions.
- Lead architectural decisions, technical trade-off discussions, and governance activities.
- Act as a customer-facing technical leader in solution demonstrations and design workshops.
- Drive cloud-native architectures, DevSecOps practices, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Identify and mitigate technical risks across software, systems, security, and data domains.
- Define architecture standards, frameworks, and governance approaches.
- Manage requirements flow-down, verification, and validation activities.
- Collaborate with engineering, software, systems, and product teams.
- Produce architecture artefacts, technical documentation, and design justifications.
- Support engineering reviews and delivery against cost, schedule, and quality objectives.
Requirements
- Experience as an Architect, Technical Lead, or Senior Software Engineer solving complex technical challenges.
- Experience designing and delivering cloud-based solutions using Azure, AWS, or similar platforms.
- Strong knowledge of software architecture, distributed systems, and microservices.
- Experience developing data-centric systems, including data pipelines and large-scale data management solutions.
- Understanding of architecture frameworks, design principles, solution governance, data governance, provenance, lineage, and traceability.
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices.
- Knowledge of system interoperability, open architectures, and interface standards.
- Proven experience delivering complex technical projects against quality, cost, and schedule commitments.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and customer-facing engagement skills.
- Ability to explain complex technical concepts and influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience with IBM DOORS or Polarion is desirable.
- Exposure to digital twin, simulation, or synthetic environment technologies is desirable.
- Experience in aerospace, defence, or similarly regulated sectors is desirable.
- Appreciation of systems engineering methodologies, governance, and assurance activities is desirable.
- Ability to obtain and maintain UK Security Clearance (SC) before commencing employment.
Benefits
- Flexible working and ongoing career development.
- Private medical insurance, annual leave purchase or sale, cycle-to-work schemes, employee discounts, a paid volunteering day, stocks and shares, and an annual bonus.
- The role is based in Crawley, United Kingdom.
- The successful applicant must undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance before commencing employment.
About Thales
Thales designs and sells defense, aerospace, space, and digital identity/cybersecurity systems to governments, armed forces, infrastructure operators, and enterprises. Its portfolio spans avionics, radars and sensors, satellites, air traffic management, secure communications, and cybersecurity and identity solutions (bolstered by the 2019 Gemalto acquisition). Headquartered in Meudon, France, Thales is publicly traded on Euronext Paris (HO) and reported €20.6 billion in sales in 2024.