Location: Belfast, United Kingdom
Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.
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.
Solution Architect
Flexible on Location
25% Travel required around the UK & Europe
Are you emotionally intelligent and enthusiastic? Looking to apply your skills to a front facing role, directly engaging with the customer? Do you have excellent listening skills and give measured responses to problems that arise? Got your interest… then look no further…
What the role has to offer:
Working with world leading air defence technologies and partners
Helping to protect countries around the world
Working on exciting export bids with new customers
About the team
You will be working as technical lead in support of the sales team to find solutions to customer challenges. Whilst listening to the customer needs, you will help to find solutions that integrate with existing customer equipment or on occasion design entirely new systems from scratch. This team is dynamic, proactive and energetic. You will be working in a fast paced environment where you can really get stuck into your work with colleagues from all over Europe. The team is based across Belfast, Bristol or Templecombe.
Our Opportunity
Thales is a world leader in Air Defence solutions, bringing together a unique combination of Thales and Partner products to deliver integrated air defence solutions that meet our customer’s needs. Due to significant growth in this market we are recruiting for a Solution Architect with knowledge of weapon system technologies, who can lead the full design life cycle, designing and developing innovative technical solutions that meet our customers and business needs. The role covers all aspects of the solution and product lifecycle, from requirements capture and analysis through solution definition, concept studies, modelling and simulation, design and development. It will include both internal, internal international and client facing interactions on a regular basis.
Key responsibilities:
As part of the IAS (Integrated Airspace-protection Systems) Solutions team, the role will require both significant customer and internal organisation interaction, leading on a variety of technical solution definitions. Responsibilities will include:
- Lead the architecting and development of our Air Defence solutions
- Work within teams defining architectures, including concept of operation, functional partitioning, end-to-end performance modelling, and interfaces between sub-systems
- Translating complex customer needs into realisable, competitive solutions
- Maintain an awareness of the latest developments in Weapon Systems and Digital Technology (e.g. Autonomy, Cyber, Communications, Big Data and AI) and identify how they can be exploited in our products and solutions
- Build long term relationships with customers, partners, and suppliers
- Proposal generation and cost estimating
- Provide technical governance of the engineering activities during the development and delivery phases
About You
You will have experience working within Defence ideally in the Weapons Systems or Air Defence domains as well as experience of working as technical support to sales/business development teams or as a technical sales engineer/representative. Additionally, you will have a track record of successfully defining and delivering customer solutions, being able to balance solution and competitiveness in a growing marketplace.
What We Can Offer
We’re committed to giving you opportunities to realise your full potential and career ambitions. 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. Thales also strongly believes in supporting our local communities and allocates up to 24 working hours per year for volunteering or community initiatives, enabling you to support causes that you are passionate about.
Flexibility
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.
If you are interested in this role, we would encourage you to have informal chat with the Talent Acquisition Partner.
Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.
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