Interconnects Product Architect

Location:

Crawley, United Kingdom Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

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.
** Interconnects Product Architect  Crawley – Hybrid (Relocation support can be provided)
** Thales Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) UK is a principal supplier of UAS, EW and Radar equipment to the UK armed forces, as well as an exporter of these capabilities worldwide.

ISR is a highly complex product development environment, focusing on delivering cutting edge products including:
* Digital Radar Electronic Support Measures (RESM) that provides situational awareness and identify threats even in busy Electronic Transmission Environments
* Radar Electronic Countermeasures (RECM) that can protect assets by denying tactical advantage and distracting incoming threats.

We’re growing and we are looking for ambitious Engineers and Architect to join us on the journey. We are actively recruiting an Interconnects Product Architect at an ‘SME’ or Technical Expert level to join us and hold responsibility for Interconnect & Interface Cabinet architecture and development.
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* Key responsibilities:

*** Lead the design and development of interconnect & interface cabinet solutions for both domestic and export portfolios
* Define and recommend candidate architectures for the corresponding level (solution or solution element) to satisfy stakeholder expectations according to the standards and re-use policies, the technology roadmap and the business strategy
* Create a cohesive product line offering and collaborate with other product line architects to ensure cohesion
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure optimal design, ensuring interface cabinet and cabling integration across multiple projects, working closely with both systems and hardware teams
* Support product development through entire lifecycle from bid concept to manufacture and in-service support
* Establish the solution architecture by making trade-offs between stakeholder expectations, technical and technological solutions and costs, risks and schedule,
* Assist in the solution development cycle and in defining the co-engineering approach
* Manage, all along the project life cycle, the assignment of the corresponding level requirements, the management of the performance evaluation and the critical parameters
** Experience required:
*** Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electro-Mechanical or related field.
* Experience and understanding of electrical interfaces including but not limited to; high speed digital, power distribution, RF and optical interconnect.
* Significant experience in cable specification and design
* Experience in cabinet design including but not limited to; backplanes, cable management, rack integration, modular interface architectures.
* Proficiency in CAD/CAE (Creo, PDMlink, Ansys, Cadence & Eplan desirable)
* Product line management
* Experience leading subsystem development activities

Nice To Have:
* Experience working in Electronic Warfare or similar field
* Familiarity with Naval Defence standards and regulation
* Ability to drive Design for X principles into design
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