Wireless Connectivity Technical Lead

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Location:

Reading, United Kingdom

Hours of work: 37 Hrs/Week (Monday-Friday) – Minimum 3 days at office

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.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well‑being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you;

whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

We have an exciting opportunity in our Research, Technology and Solution Innovation business. Due to a rapid period of growth, we are looking to add to the team a Wireless Connectivity Technical Lead with an architectural and team‑leading background. You will work in an applied research environment to investigate and develop new concepts and technologies across a wide range of Thales’ application areas.

The type of activities will include:

• Technical steering and management of research projects covering a range of wireless connectivity topics.
• Engaging with internal stakeholders to shape our research agenda, through understanding and influencing business strategy and customer requirements.
• Engaging with external stakeholders of research and innovation projects, including end users, customers, funding bodies, sub‑contractors, suppliers, etc.
• Working with the research team to design novel wireless connectivity solution architectures.
• Designing and delivering proof‑of‑concept demonstrations of advanced connectivity solutions to validate and communicate their impact, typically with a small team of software and product engineers.
• Supporting bids and proposals, both internal and external; evaluating value propositions and generating new ideas.

The focus of this role is on wireless connectivity at the system level, developing solutions that employ Thales and third‑party components. The systems are typically safety or security critical in nature (requiring high assurance) and involving distributed IoT/Edge platforms with constrained communications, power and computing resources.

• Provide expertise on wireless connectivity solutions and architectures, supporting technical strategy around early concepts or challenging issues.
• Generate and evaluate new ideas that bring value to Thales business lines.
• Drive engagement with internal and external stakeholders, shaping ideas, agreeing outcomes.
• Manage and contribute to bids for research and technology projects, as well as the realisation of proof‑of‑concepts and integration projects to validate and demonstrate new ideas (typically small teams of 3‑5 people).
• Work within a group of other research staff, as well as being self‑motivated to work individually, and be flexible to adapt into new research areas and ways of working.
• Share knowledge within a motivated and curious technical team.

• Technical research and innovation in wireless connectivity
• Technical team leadership
• Stakeholder engagement
• Management of medium sized projects
• Broad grounding in the fundamentals of wireless connectivity from university courses and industrial experience, spanning SATCOM and terrestrial technologies.
• Experimental/practical work on wireless connectivity, with demonstrated ability to contribute at the concept and architectural level. An understanding of how wireless connectivity concepts are realised within an architecture is essential.

Additionally, the successful…