Jobs at Thales

Lead Thales UK's external communications strategy, reputation management, media relations, thought leadership, executive profiling, campaigns, crisis communications, and agency partnerships. Advise senior leaders and the Executive Committee, build media relationships across defence, technology, security, and business sectors, and lead a high-performing communications team to increase visibility and influence.

Designs and owns end-to-end cloud and data architectures for complex aviation engineering programs. Translates customer requirements into secure, scalable solutions; leads architectural decisions, governance, risk management, and technical trade-offs. Drives cloud-native, DevSecOps, and CI/CD adoption while collaborating with software, systems, engineering, and product teams. Engages customers, produces architecture documentation, supports verification and validation, and mentors technical teams.

Develop, integrate, test, optimize, and deploy secure, high-performing software solutions across the software development lifecycle. Collaborate with engineers, architects, and project teams on requirements, system design, architecture, verification, validation, planning, estimation, and delivery. Produce maintainable, testable code and contribute to scalable solutions, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement. Experience with embedded systems, hardware interfaces, RTOS, and regulated industries is advantageous.

Define end-to-end architectures for complex training and simulation programmes. Translate customer requirements into technical solutions, lead architectural decisions and trade-offs, manage technical risks, apply systems engineering and MBSE, oversee requirements flow-down and verification, and produce architecture models and documentation. Support bids, customer engagement, technical reviews, and product roadmaps while ensuring delivery meets cost, schedule, quality, and long-term viability goals.

Lead systems engineering activities across the lifecycle for military aerospace avionics programs. Responsibilities include requirements management, system architecture, specifications, interface documentation, integration, verification, trials, safety and airworthiness certification, and technical leadership. The role involves collaborating with customers, suppliers, and multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver tactical mission management, cockpit display, and navigation systems.

Owns product direction and backlog prioritization for digital training and simulation solutions. Represents customer and user needs, defines requirements and acceptance criteria, gathers feedback, and aligns development with business strategy. The role collaborates with engineering, architecture, programme teams, and stakeholders while supporting verification, validation, acceptance, and technical design governance as Project Design Authority.

Develop and deliver military aerospace flight avionics systems, including tactical mission management, cockpit display, and navigation systems. Responsibilities include requirements capture, system architecture and specifications, customer liaison, supplier work management, integration and trials, testing, and support for safety and airworthiness certification. The role requires an engineering or computer science degree, systems engineering knowledge, UK travel flexibility, and eligibility for UK Security Check clearance.

Provides hands-on technical support for avionics products across projects, bids, sales, service engineering, and customer programmes. Responsibilities include fault investigation, technical analysis, DRACAS data, reporting, technical instructions, service bulletins, field support, continuous improvement, customer reviews, and safety compliance. The role requires avionics experience, strong problem-solving and communication skills, engineering documentation discipline, and awareness of supportability, obsolescence, test methods, design safety, bid support, and risk management.

Owns cybersecurity and identity access management services, overseeing security controls, verification, maintenance, service improvement, incident and change processes, and squad backlogs. Works with security operations and information systems teams to prevent breaches, manages stakeholders and suppliers, supports strategic security technology planning, and reports security performance to leadership. Requires deep security infrastructure expertise, risk and compliance knowledge, analytical capability, agile experience, and strong communication and leadership skills.

Supports bid and project management for naval secure communications projects from bid development through delivery. Responsibilities include project baselining, requirements capture, estimating, scheduling, governance, risk and opportunity management, reporting, change control, financial analysis, and stakeholder coordination. Uses Oracle and Primavera to maintain project financial, schedule, and resource data while supporting process improvement across the Bid and Project Management function.

Manages bids and complex projects across the secure communications portfolio, supporting planning, scheduling, governance, risk, change control, stakeholder engagement, reporting, and financial performance. The role leads smaller projects and assists with high-value multidisciplinary programs through development, implementation, closure, and support. Responsibilities include project planning, estimating, resource coordination, performance tracking, supplier and customer negotiation, and analysis of cost variances.

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.

Performs integration, production testing, electrical, electronic, and mechanical assembly for customer and developmental products. Diagnoses and repairs faults to component level, maintains build and test documentation, reads circuit diagrams and engineering drawings, and safely operates production tools and equipment. Collaborates with engineering, planning, and project teams while supporting quality and continuous improvement.

Senior Systems Engineer responsible for requirements management, systems integration, verification, validation and qualification, trade-off analysis, modelling, simulation, and engineering documentation across complex UAS, electronic warfare, and radar programmes. The role supports the full engineering lifecycle from concept and requirements capture through design, testing, acceptance, and updates, while working with systems engineering, architecture, and project design teams.

Leads export services sales and capture activities for Thales’ underwater systems business, building long-term relationships with ministries of defence, defence primes, and international customers. Owns the sales pipeline, order-intake growth, strategic campaigns, capture plans, customer engagement, and complex service solution development. Coordinates multinational, cross-functional teams, supports bids exceeding £10 million, and develops through-life support and managed-services opportunities across maritime, airborne, and submarine domains.

Develop and validate Electronic Warfare, Radar, or UAS solutions across the full systems engineering lifecycle. Responsibilities include requirements management in DOORS or Polarion, system integration, specification development, trade-off analysis, modelling and simulation, IVVQ activities, technical documentation, and collaboration with systems architects, project authorities, and multidisciplinary stakeholders. The role requires eligibility for UK Security Clearance.

Design and lead test architectures and strategies for complex aerospace and defence systems. Translate customer and system requirements into scalable test solutions, integrate hardware and software, ensure compliance with MOD standards, and support verification, qualification, and in-service activities. Provide technical leadership, stakeholder engagement, bid support, mentoring, and innovation through automation, digital twins, and model-based testing.

Leads product and systems safety engineering across complex, regulated projects. Responsibilities include supporting bids, developing safety plans, managing work packages and budgets, conducting hazard and failure analyses, maintaining safety requirements and hazard logs, developing safety cases and ALARP arguments, ensuring compliance with safety management systems and regulations, and mentoring junior engineers.

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.

Leads engineering across the MCCS programme, providing technical governance, risk mitigation, stakeholder coordination, bid and solution reviews, and engineering oversight. The role coordinates multidisciplinary teams, integrates specialist capabilities, coaches senior engineers, manages suppliers and customers, and ensures delivery meets business and customer requirements. It requires substantial engineering programme experience, naval communications architecture knowledge, strong governance, people leadership, and UK Security Clearance.