Software IVVQ Manager

Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services.

Primary Purpose of the Role:

To drive the evolution and deployment of Data and AI capabilities within the businesses and to our customers in order to increase growth in orders and increased customer satisfaction. 

As part of a newly established Software development and delivery team, the IVVQ Manager will work with both the development team, IVVQ Engineers and the end user in Thales UK businesses. Supporting the Thales UK Digital and Data strategy the Software IVVQ Manager will; support the delivery software offerings into an internal catalogue of reusable/re-deployable capabilities focused around data and AI capabilities, helping deliver continuous evolution and deployment of factory developed software along with assurance evidence.

The role will interact with other data solutions architects and engineers across the business working in Data and AI: delivering solutions that make up new or enhanced market offers; provide technical feedback of solutions; and acting as a technical expert in solutions used transversally throughout the business.

The role will be part of the Thales UK Data and Digital Competence Centre team to ensure that the technology strategy, human capabilities and opportunity pipeline is enabling the business strategy and growth. The role will connect with stakeholders across engineering, Thales UK and Group Digital Competence Centres thinking.

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Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

As an IVVQ Engineering Role within Thales, you will:

• Define and maintain the IVVQ strategy across all Factory projects to ensure agile delivery of solutions to the end customer, including all required assurance evidence
• Manage and perform unit, integration and end-to-end testing of individual software components or system-under-development
• Define step by step the integration tree consistent with the system release plan
• Develop/deploy/maintain software that performs or supports test activities such as test management, test design, test execution and results checking 
• Provide investigative support of a staging or SIL environment with the help of software or hardware tools 
• Identify test equipment; standard or specialised and any special calibration requirements required at each Test Activity 
• Plan, estimate, monitor and control IVVQ activities 
• Identify the means required (enabling System) to validate the Solution, and then to define the operational scenario and the criteria of validation to objectively assess compliance of the Solution 
• Satisfy and manage customer’s expectations 
• Prepare test campaigns, run the tests and analyse the results 
• Write and update the integration and verification test procedures documentation 
• Lead the demonstration to the end customer 

Key Performance Indicators against Responsibilities and Tasks

Technical

• You have a solid understanding of the Engineering Project Management Principles 
• You have good knowledge of:  
  • Component testing 
  • Integration & end-to-end verification 
  • Test automation 
  • Test equipment 
  • Requirements and test management 
  • Validation & acceptance 
• You know how to deal with data, and you are familiar with programming languages 
• You have a proven capacity to ensure success by meeting deadlines and achieving a balanced budget 
• You demonstrate strong leadership and are willing to mentor and grow junior team members 
• You know how to use your creativity to give full customer satisfaction
  • Logical Analysis of technical solutions and problem solving
• Experience working on Linux or Windows based infrastructure
• Excellent troubleshooting
• Working knowledge of IVVQ tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services
• Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT, predictive analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence
  • General IT Knowledge (applications, storage, networks, IT infrastructure, Infrastructure, service level agreements, Asset management etc)
• Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks
  • Technical IT (security, transaction processing, user interface, data management, Operating Systems Services)
  • Ability to design innovative solutions whilst adhering to strong security constraints.
  • Experience of the latest technology trends and their application within Data - including but not limited to AI, machine learning containerisation, IOT, big data and cloud.

Interpersonal Skills

• Ability to work in complex multi-stakeholder environment.
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills – encourages an open environment where information and ideas are shared and innovative thinking is stimulated.  Will be adept at effectively building stakeholder relationships and working collaboratively with customer, supplier and internal teams.

• Capable of effectively engaging with technical staff, suppliers and stakeholders supporting delivery of solutions to achieve business/user objectives.
  • Team player with a sharp intellect, challenging approach and a “can do attitude”.
  • Experience of multi-stakeholder change management activities

Essential

• Have a significant proven experience (3 to 5 years) among the following: Test, Integration, Verification, Validation and Software Qualification
• You are recognised as a team player and enjoy collaborative work 
• You are analytical, structured and synthetic 
• You are considered as a problem-solver 
• You enjoy dealing with diverse and complex projects 

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At Thales, we ensure equal opportunities, pay and working conditions for all. The benefits we offer include private medical insurance, buying or selling annual leave, cycle to work schemes, employee discounts, paid volunteering day, stocks and shares, annual bonus and much more depending on the role. Read more about our benefits here.

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