Jobs at Thales

Owns and prioritizes the product backlog for secure hardware engineering environments. Defines requirements, acceptance criteria, and feature priorities; validates releases; gathers user feedback; and leads application evolution, migration, consolidation, and legacy-tool retirement. Acts as technical authority and architect while coordinating hardware engineers, product owners, architects, delivery teams, and leadership. The role requires practical hardware engineering experience and knowledge of engineering development environments, with responsibility for aligning tools to broader Thales roadmaps.

Lead the modernization of engineering tooling environments by migrating legacy platforms to Azure-based cloud infrastructure. Deploy and support CI/CD, artifact management, code quality, and licensing tools; develop Infrastructure as Code and automation; maintain existing environments; and provision infrastructure resources. Implement monitoring, backups, archiving, and logging best practices while supporting engineering users. Collaborate with product and delivery stakeholders, coach junior team members, and champion reliable, secure DevOps practices.

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 Lean Continuous Improvement across the manufacturing site by embedding Lean thinking, PDCA problem solving, and operational excellence. Coach teams, lead transformation initiatives, improve quality, delivery, and cost performance, and coordinate Lean activities across production and engineering functions. The role also supports Lean maturity advancement, TIOM deployment, capability building, and certification targets.

Apprentice product owner supporting digital product discovery, requirements, backlog refinement, user and stakeholder research, validation, documentation, and change management while completing a Level 4 Digital Product Manager apprenticeship. The role combines virtual academic learning with hands-on experience on live Thales initiatives and leads to a permanent position. Applicants need specified UK educational qualifications, permanent UK work rights, and the ability to obtain and maintain BPSS and SC security clearance.

Owns the product backlog and priorities for internal engineering environments, represents users, defines requirements and acceptance criteria, approves delivered features, and coordinates with product owners and development teams. The role also provides technical authority for cloud-based software development environments, including architecture, tooling, infrastructure, secure development, and service offerings. Candidates should understand modern software development practices, cloud technologies, Kubernetes, containers, and GitOps. UK Security Clearance is required.

Designs and establishes electronic warfare system and solution architectures, balancing stakeholder needs, technical solutions, cost, risk, and schedule. Manages requirements allocation, performance evaluation, interfaces, technical negotiations, and architecture documentation throughout the project lifecycle. Collaborates with engineering, procurement, production, project delivery, and customer teams to develop EW products including radar electronic support measures and countermeasures. Requires substantial systems architecture experience and expertise in EW, radar, RF systems, DSP, and system design.

Provide technical security advice and through-life assurance for Thales IS/IT environments. Deliver security reviews, cloud and incident response guidance, compliance to government standards, risk assessments, CoCo assurance, and security requirements for delivery squads. Maintain security documentation and support continual assurance, training, and remediation across on-premises and cloud systems.

Manages strategic suppliers and category strategies across Thales UK, serving as commercial owner for supplier relationships. Responsibilities include negotiations, cost savings, supplier governance, KPI and performance management, stakeholder engagement, sourcing, tendering, supply base optimisation, and commercial risk mitigation. The role requires strong commercial, analytical, negotiation, and influencing skills, with CIPS qualification desirable.

Leads financial planning for complex bids by preparing cost estimates, pricing, financial models, risk and opportunity analyses, cash-flow projections, and margin assessments. Supports bid reviews, governance, gate approvals, business cases, and commercial strategies while partnering with engineering, project management, commercial, procurement, and finance teams. The role requires strong financial and commercial judgment, advanced Excel skills, stakeholder management, and the ability to support defence-related opportunities.

Lead and perform system safety engineering activities: record safety requirements, identify and analyse hazards/risks, maintain hazard logs, gather evidence for Safety Assessments/Cases, capture and resolve safety issues, and produce safety artefacts and reports to support project safety cases.

Develop and deploy Industry 4.0 and IoT solutions for smart manufacturing, including connected tooling, vision systems, automation, sensor integration, machine monitoring, and industrial data management. Support existing systems, configure devices, manage software updates, evaluate hardware and software vendors, and collaborate with manufacturing teams to deliver solutions from concept through deployment.

Build data pipelines, ETL workflows, databases, dashboards, and analytics for smart manufacturing. Use Python, JavaScript, statistical analysis, IoT technologies, and predictive maintenance solutions to improve factory performance. Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to develop and deploy Industry 4.0 solutions, including machine monitoring and smart tooling applications.

Senior Project Controller responsible for deploying and improving project controls across bids and projects. The role manages integrated master schedules, performance baselines, reporting rhythms, risk and opportunity analysis, resource forecasting, variance analysis, KPIs, and corrective actions. It provides actionable insight to project leadership and senior management, supports project reviews, and applies techniques such as Earned Value Management and Schedule Risk Analysis. Security Clearance is required before employment.

Manage high-value contracts and bids across the full commercial lifecycle, from capture and proposal development through negotiation, award, delivery, change management, compliance, and closure. Build customer relationships, draft and assess contractual documents, manage commercial and contractual risks, and provide guidance to multidisciplinary teams and senior stakeholders. The role supports defence and aerospace customers, including the UK Ministry of Defence and international organizations.

Manage quality assurance across bids and projects, representing customer interests and monitoring quality performance. Conduct audits and surveillance, identify risks and improvement opportunities, promote best practices, and support a strong quality culture. The role involves collaboration with project teams, customers, suppliers, and business leaders, applying quality standards, QMS knowledge, analytical thinking, and continuous improvement methods throughout the project lifecycle.

Develop and test software for maritime mission systems and sonar technologies, including human-computer interfaces, acoustic processing, and middleware. Collaborate with systems engineering and project teams to define requirements, test strategies, and robust deliverables. Support deployed software on land and at sea, contribute to software strategy, and work with UK and international sites. Business travel is required, along with eligibility for UK Security Clearance.

Leads new product introduction industrialisation from prototype through production readiness. Develops manufacturing facilities, tooling, processes, ERP/MES routes, BOMs, and manufacturing routings. Coordinates Manufacturing Readiness Level assessments and Production Readiness Reviews, collaborates across engineering and manufacturing teams, resolves post-launch issues, and drives Lean continuous improvement to improve efficiency, quality, throughput, and production performance.

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.