Department Manager - Deployment Engineering Validation Verification Qualification Infrastructure M/F

Location: Gennevilliers, France

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Thales is a global high-tech leader specializing in three business sectors: Defense & Security, Aerospace & Space, and Cyber & Digital. It develops products and solutions that contribute to a safer, more environmentally friendly, and more inclusive world. The Group invests nearly 4 billion euros per year in Research & Development, particularly in key innovation areas such as AI, cybersecurity, quantum, cloud technologies, and 6G. Thales has nearly 81,000 employees in 68 countries.

Our commitments, your benefits

• Success driven by our technological excellence, your experience, and our shared ambition
• An attractive compensation package
• Continuous skill development: training courses, internal academies, and internal communities
• An inclusive, benevolent environment respecting employee balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

The Gennevilliers Campus is the heart of design, development, and support activities for major defense systems: radio communications, resilient infrastructure networks and systems, satellite communications, collaborative combat, and cybersecurity. Located north of Paris, it is quickly accessible by public transport.

Attached to the Mobile Networks (MNW) sector, Systems Engineering Department (DIS) and its France Systems Validation (VSF) activity, you will participate in the IVVQ System team's activities for tactical network and SATCOM network projects, in an activity domain predominantly military telecom systems (mainly for SYRACUSE and ASTRIDE affairs).

You are hierarchically responsible for all activities contributing to the deployment of systems on operational sites.

YOUR MISSIONS:

• Assume hierarchical responsibility for the activity, manage the team including annual employee reviews (team of 15 direct employees excluding service providers) and necessary skills.
• Guarantee the resources and means allowing the delivery of system components to the various IVVQM in relation with project managers (PM, WPM) to prepare the deliveries of system versions satisfying the Clients (IVVQ Managers of the various projects and DGA Clients).
• Participate in the System Engineering phases for offers and the design of software platform evolutions (including: the infrastructure of the SYRACUSE management center).
• Guarantee all means allowing:
• operational maintenance on the Gennevilliers platforms, with the objective of ensuring the qualification and deployment of evolutions
• on-site deployment of qualified systems
• the availability of your team for operational support tasks
• Within the scope defined by the IVVQ Managers of the various projects, you:
• Guarantee conformity to needs while respecting your team's production schedule.
• With the engineering manager, you contribute to treatments related to the obsolescence of the System in the coming years.

YOUR PROFILE:

You have experience in executing large Telecom type contracts with a system architecture.

Have you previously held a position as: Service Manager, or Department Engineering Manager? Or a position as a Network Test, Integration Team Manager in terms of technical steering, delivery?

You have good technical knowledge of deployment activities in a telecom context. Knowledge of satellite communication networks (high-frequency transmission issues, etc.) is desirable.

You have very good listening, communication, understanding/rephrasing skills for the needs of IVVQ Managers to be able to grasp the different challenges of multi-project deliverables.

You have good knowledge of activity processes and constraints (security, prevention, necessary authorizations, etc.).

You understand the technologies used:

• virtualization: HyperV, THALES Hypervisor (Safecore), ESXI VMWARE, Vcenter, etc.
• OS: Windows 10, Windows Server (2016, 2019), Linux (Debian 10, 12, Centos), historical OS,
• solution security (at network and software platform level)

You have good organizational skills allowing you to adapt dynamically and flexibly to the inherent hazards of the activity.

Ideally, you are familiar with the DDQS Chorus 2.0 Thales processes.

You are recognized for your ability to lead an integrated team on complex Systems and your ability to structure and organize your work in a multidisciplinary team context.

You are comfortable with oral communication both internally and with the Client.

A WORD FROM THE TEAM / MANAGER

You have the opportunity to strengthen the MNW/DIS/VSF competence center for several large Systems already deployed operationally.

You will thus have the opportunity to participate in the support of deployed versions, in the development of versions currently under development, in their qualification with the end Client until their operational deployment, allowing you to offer excellent visibility over a long period for each notified System version (between one and a half to two years per version). The offer teams are already preparing for the future with the objective of contracting the evolutions of future System versions.

Thales, a Handi-Engaged company, recognizes all talents. Diversity is our best asset. Apply and join us !

As the position may require access to information classified as national defense secret, the selected person will be subject to an authorization procedure, in accordance with the provisions of articles R.2311-1 et seq. of the Defense Code and IGI 1300 SGDSN/PSE of August 09, 2021.