Location: SINGAPORE, Singapore
In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.
Thales established its presence in Singapore in 1973 to support the expansion of aerospace-related activities in the Asia-Pacific region. Throughout the last four decades, the company grew from strength to strength and is today involved in the primary businesses of Aerospace (including Air Traffic Management), Defence & Security, Ground Transportation and Digital Identity & Security. Thales today employs over 2,100 people in Singapore across all its business areas.
ROLE DESCRIPTION SUMMARY
The Senior Systems Engineer will engage with key stakeholders, including; solution architects, speciality engineers (Safety, Security, HF), ILS and ATM subject matter experts to prepare and deliver requirement and design changes with reference to a defined system functional baseline to satisfy customer needs and project/bid cost targets.
KEY ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
As a Sr. Systems Engineer, you are accountable for:
Design, develop and document solutions to meet customer requirements, whilst ensuring the integrity of the System functional baseline and architecture
Define solutions that deliver the best trade-off between requirements, cost, schedule and risk, which meet our customers needs
Ensure the transversal constraints related to the function are considered (Safety, Human Factor, Performance, Security)
Proactively participate in the technical reviews, including internal and with the Customer
Proactively participate in technical working groups both internally and externally to define technical solution
Proactively participate in PI planning and backlog refinement including contributing to the effort estimation
Prepare Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs) and Problem Change Requests (PCRs)
Develop and manage traceability of requirements using DOORS, including the Functional, Allocated and Product baselines.
Perform peer reviews of engineering documentation written by other team members
Support your Squad members (software, integration and verification)
Support the Product Owner (PO) and Scrum Master (SM)
Make recommendations on strategies to improve performance or productivity
Identify risks, and proposing effective solution early and executing mitigation actions
Provide input into the planning and coordination of program integration activities
Promote knowledge sharing ensuring that work is captured sufficiently for re-use across projects
Provide technical oversight to the Squads within the broader team, ensuring that the designed solution is implemented as per the design and in accordance to the schedule and cost and quality constraints.
Define and report on KPIs for the function
Work in accordance with the defined Thales processes and practices, and contribute to their improvement.
KEY KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
To be successful in your role, you will have demonstrated and/or acquired the following knowledge and experience:
Qualifications
Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline
Postgraduate studies in Systems Engineering (Desirable)
Essential Experience
Proven experience in Systems Engineering (5+ years) including; Requirements, Design, Integration and Verification and Validation
Experience with Systems Engineering Standards eg. ISO/IEC15288
Proven experience in the ATM Domain and related standards eg. ICAO, Eurocontrol
Proven experience in the development of products and projects in a variety of methodologies, with a particular focus on iterative/agile development
Experience with Safety, Security and Human Factors standards and practices
Demonstrated ability to achieve effective outcomes in a multidiscipline, multi-culture environment
Coaching and sharing of his/her know-how
Capability to manage various stakeholders having different objectives
A positive attitude combined with excellent interpersonal and motivational skills.
Comfort in facing and managing complexity
Sound judgement and independent decision-making capability where necessary
Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
Desirable:
Experience in System Engineering tools eg. DOORs, Polarian, Jira
Experience in Model Based Systems Engineering and tools eg. Capella, Enterprise Architect
Experience in working in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
French Literacy
General / Special Requirements
Assist in ensuring a harmonious work environment in all departments that you are working with by upholding Thales key values.
An advocate for diversity and inclusion who will be actively involved in implementing change initiatives to achieve our diversity goals
An advocate for a culture of continuous improvement
An advocate for Accountability, transparency and curiosity
Comply with all relevant company Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental policies and framework and work practices with the intent of preventing or minimising accidental exposures to self, colleagues, visitors and/or the environment and to ensure a safe work practises at all times.
Comply with all relevant Company policies and procedures.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
Occasional international travel may be required
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