Jobs at Thales

Leads planning and logistics strategy, governance, and performance across a complex, multi-site supply chain. Oversees S&OP, materials and resource planning, MRP II and ERP-enabled processes, logistics partners, inventory flows, and supply chain analytics. Drives Lean improvement, transformation, capability development, and cross-functional alignment with procurement, manufacturing, engineering, quality, and projects. Ensures delivery, capacity, regulatory, and performance commitments while developing teams and evolving supply chain systems and processes.

Lead AI security assurance across development teams, including vulnerability management, secure-by-design practices, security requirements, governance, risk assessments, system accreditation, and technical security advice. The role supports data protection, compliance, security policies, risk registers, and security initiatives while collaborating with enterprise AI, architecture, services, and business stakeholders. It requires cloud and Infrastructure as Code knowledge, Agile security experience, recognized security certifications, and eligibility for UK Security Check clearance.

Lead safety engineering throughout the project lifecycle for defence and other safety-critical systems. Develop safety cases, safety plans, and hazard logs; conduct hazard identification and risk assessments; apply qualitative and quantitative safety analyses; and provide safety evidence and assurance. Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams, customers, and stakeholders to influence design decisions and ensure systems remain safe, reliable, and compliant.

Supports the development, deployment, validation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of Manufacturing Execution System solutions across UK industrial sites. Responsibilities include gathering requirements, translating operational needs into technical specifications, configuring and testing deployments, troubleshooting incidents, supporting MES users, maintaining documentation, and collaborating with manufacturing, supply chain, IT, and site teams. The role also participates in Agile ceremonies and contributes to standardized MES practices and best-practice development.

Leads mechanical engineering for Thales’ underwater towed-array portfolio, including product development, mechanical architecture, design trade-offs, manufacturing and assembly drawings, platform installation, trials, integration, and problem resolution. Supports project and product authorities, mentors mechanical engineers, coordinates with hardware disciplines, monitors technology developments, and drives future product capability. The role requires CREO and PDMLink proficiency, subsea or defense engineering experience, UK nationality, and Security Clearance.

Analyze working capital metrics across receivables, payables, inventory, customer advances, and capital expenditure. Prepare cash flow reports, dashboards, forecasts, and recommendations for senior leadership. Partner with Finance, Operations, and Commercial teams to improve cash performance, identify risks and trends, and support continuous improvement through AI and automation.

Designs and delivers integrated customer data solutions supporting Thales UK’s digital and data strategy. Responsibilities include architecture design, data integration, proof-of-concept development, stakeholder engagement, technical documentation, data governance, solution oversight, and lifecycle management. The role supports UK Ministry of Defence data standards, collaborates with engineering and digital platform teams, evaluates emerging technologies, and develops secure data management and analytics solutions across complex defence environments.

Lead systems engineering for large-scale naval communications programmes across lifecycle phases: requirements, solution architecture, design, IVVQ, deployment and through-life support. Provide technical leadership, manage multifunctional teams, maintain design baselines, mitigate technical risks, and produce design validation and certification documentation.

As a Test Design Engineer, you will lead the design of test solutions for aerospace and defence systems, ensuring compliance with standards and customer requirements. You will collaborate with stakeholders and integrate testing systems throughout the product lifecycle.

Lead Integration, Verification, Validation and Qualification activities for a next-generation electronic warfare solution. Develop IVVQ strategies, manage requirements, defects, documentation, schedules, budgets and quality objectives, and ensure systems meet customer requirements and acceptance criteria. Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams across the full systems engineering lifecycle, introducing improved tools and processes while supporting integration, testing, validation and qualification.

Lead complex UK and international bids from qualification through submission, ensuring governance, quality, and timely delivery. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, pre-qualification submissions, proposal deliverables, reviews, cost estimates, business cases, win strategies, customer presentations, and negotiations. Build stakeholder relationships and support successful commercial outcomes while applying bid management methodologies, risk and change management, and information governance.

Lead architecture, design, and delivery of enterprise cryptographic services (PKI, KMS, HSMs, PQC). Produce HLDs and solution designs, drive integration, testing and transition, advise customers on quantum readiness, manage stakeholder engagement, identify risks, and mentor engineers across bids through delivery.

Lead and manage QA across a portfolio of engineering/defence programmes, ensuring governance, independent assurance, risk-based decisions, supplier and manufacturing oversight, attendance at reviews, and embedding customer requirements throughout project lifecycles.

Build and support secure, resilient Azure cloud infrastructure using DevSecOps practices. Create and maintain IaC (Terraform/Ansible), CI/CD pipelines, automation, monitoring, and operational best practices. Support releases, production environments, and educate squads on security and operational constraints.

Maintain and modernise DevOps platforms for maritime mission-critical sonar systems. Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines, migrate legacy environments, implement IaC and automation, improve platform performance, availability, monitoring, security, and develop in-house tooling to support software delivery.

Perform penetration testing across IT and OT systems (Windows, Linux, mobile, web, cloud); identify and exploit vulnerabilities; produce clear technical reports; support accreditation and assurance; advise on mitigations and security controls; contribute governance and secure documentation; act as a cybersecurity SME and support bids and stakeholder collaboration.

Lead continuous improvement, digital transformation, data analytics and performance management. Manage Lean, Digital and Data teams, deliver Kaizen/Gemba-driven improvements, build capability, run transformation projects, and partner with senior stakeholders to improve manufacturing performance.

Support and maintain secure, resilient on-premise infrastructure for a hosted AI platform. Responsibilities include monitoring, troubleshooting, incident resolution, patching, upgrades, capacity and lifecycle management across physical servers, virtualization, operating systems, and containerized services. The role also involves documentation, change management, collaboration with engineering and security teams, supplier coordination, and continuous service improvement.

Support and improve secure, resilient on-premise infrastructure for a hosted AI platform. Responsibilities include systems administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, patching, upgrades, lifecycle management, container and hypervisor support, incident resolution, documentation, and continuous service improvement. The role collaborates with engineering, security, service teams, and suppliers while maintaining platform availability, performance, capacity, and operational standards.

Support supply chain security and risk management by assessing supplier and organisational security risks, maintaining risk profiles and ISMS controls, supporting accreditations (ISO 27001, CE+), responding to incidents, producing KRIs/KPIs and reports, and delivering training and guidance to stakeholders.