Head Of Systems Department

Building a future of trust together

Thales is a global leader in high technologies specializing in three 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 skills development: training programs, academies, and internal communities
• An inclusive, benevolent environment that respects employee balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

Join us on the Vélizy campus, which hosts a wide variety of Thales activities: aerospace, defense, civil, etc. West of Paris, this site offers a work environment equipped with the latest technological innovations and provides services that help balance professional and personal life.

In a context of strong activity growth and the evolution from ammunition maintenance to the development of new products, new ammunition, new weapons, and new systems, a systems engineering department is being created to meet the domain's competitiveness challenges by accelerating time to market and reducing our costs.

The department head therefore plays a key role in the organization to provide solutions by integrating into the technical competence center (CCT) management team.

To successfully carry out their missions, the head of the systems department will be accompanied by all the necessary skills to master the products, as well as the "delivery," i.e., respecting deadlines and cost commitments to satisfy all stakeholders: client, industrial, program, and business.

Your missions

• Be responsible for developing the right product and the good product throughout the entire lifecycle;
• Guarantee the respect of deadlines/costs commitments and a "right first time" approach;
• Master the configuration of products throughout the entire lifecycle;
• Develop your teams' skills to meet current and future challenges;
• Be proactive and lead necessary continuous improvement actions on products and discipline.

Your profile

Do you have the ambition to be a manager, leader, coach recognized for making your employees succeed individually and collectively?

Do you want to demonstrate a strong will for continuous improvement and an ability to develop a strategic vision?

Are you capable of integrating and even anticipating the different elements of your environment to guide the team through the challenges raised by competitiveness?

Do you know how to step back and fully embrace the tactical dimension of management while mastering the operational and knowing how to question the strategic dimension?

You have a BAC+5 engineering school degree with a specialization in the defense and/or aeronautics field and have experience in:

• Systems engineering, engineering processes (Waterfall, V-model development, and agile methods);
• A Lean Management approach and the application of Agile principles to the management and development of your team, in Scrum and/or Kanban mode;
• Developments based on data models, simulation, IVVQ, RAMST, pyrotechnics.

Are autonomy, customer orientation, teamwork, and your ability to make people and projects succeed recognized as your strengths?

Then join us!

A word from the team:

You are joining a very dynamic domain with very strong activity growth generating a significant ramp-up in a context of competitiveness improvement with eminently technical teammates to support you who also wish for improvements.

Franck B.

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

The position may require access to information related to national defense secrecy, the selected person will be subject to a security clearance 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.