Lead Systems Engineering Role

2 days ago


Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom Thales Full time
Job Description

A dynamic opportunity exists for a Lead Systems Engineer within Thales OME, with the option to be based in either Reading or Glasgow. This role may require occasional travel and time spent at other Thales sites, customer premises, or integration and test facilities.

In this critical role, you will work independently to contribute to systems engineering design activities across the engineering project, focusing on:

  • Establishing System Requirements for the product
  • Creating detailed design documentation that captures the systems engineering design
  • Defining the internal and external interfaces of the system
  • Determining the functional definitions of system behavior
  • Developing test procedures to verify the system's performance
  • Carrying out integration and verification testing against established procedures
  • Gathering evidence to confirm that system requirements have been met
  • Peer reviewing technical documents
  • Sharing expertise with the broader engineering team

To excel in this position, you should possess excellent communication skills, be proactive in challenging ideas, and have experience in:

  • Collaborating with diverse teams during design projects
  • Defining system interfaces, boundaries, and external factors influencing design requirements engineering (elicitation, decomposition, and analysis)
  • Examining operational concepts of complex systems

Bonus skills include:

  • Background in decomposing complex systems into subsystems
  • Familiarity with systems modeling techniques
  • Able to assess potential solutions against key design requirements
  • Experience with design analysis methods (trade-off analysis, calculations, modeling, and simulation)

This position will report directly to the Systems Engineering Discipline Manager.



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