Lead Systems Modeller

Location: Crawley, 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.

**Lead Systems Modeller (MBSE)**

**Crawley/Hybrid Working**

**Our Opportunity**:
This full-time permanent Systems Engineer role is to work on a delivery project or bid in one of the domains of the ISR business. The Systems Engineer role performs a subset of all the engineering activities required to develop a solution/product whilst achieving customer satisfaction of the delivered solution/ product. This role requires a Systems Engineer with experience in performing system engineering throughout the life cycle, and who is able to provide technical leadership of small teams to complete tasks and deliver required outputs.

**Key responsibilities include**:
Formalisation and management of requirements through the Orchestra integrated toolset.

Formalisation of the specifications used to develop the solution.

Trade-off analysis, modelling and simulation.

Able to use Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methods and tools and to coach others in using and contributing to the modelling activities.

Contribute towards the Systems Architecture and design at an appropriate level

Supporting and undertaking IVVQ activities

Providing SE and IVVQ related documentation.

Managing and reporting defects identified in a clear and efficient manner.

Able to support testing and demonstration that the solution satisfies the overall approved operational needs set out by the customer.

**What are we looking for?**

**Skills**:
An understanding of System Engineering and System Engineering Processes and Practices, including knowledge of Systems Lifecycles.

An ability to work with combinations of technologies, to integrate and verify them in a logical and structured way into a system in order to fully satisfy a Customer’s requirement.

Excellent communications skills, both verbally and written, with the ability to present and explain technical and complex problems, tailored appropriately for the audience.

A team player with a “can-do” attitude who performs effectively in a multi-disciplinary team environment.

Eligibility to be security cleared to SC.

**Experience**:
Proven working experience in using Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methods and tools, including Thales Orchestra toolset

Familiarity with iterative development and agile processes

Experience of the engineering lifecycle, from concept design, requirements capture and management, system and subsystem design, system integration, through to test strategies, acceptance and design update.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

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