About the role
AI summarisedThe Integration, Verification, Validation, and Qualification Manager (IVVQM) at Thales is responsible for defining and executing the IV&V strategy for air traffic management solutions, ensuring compliance with contractual, operational, and regulatory requirements. The role involves leading the IVV team, managing customer scope, and contributing to continuous improvement in a complex software-centric safety-critical environment.
Aerospace & DefenseFull-timeGeneral
Key Responsibilities
- Define the Project IVV and Transition Strategy
- Develop and maintain the IVVQ Plan
- Define and monitor IVV KPIs and make recommendations on strategies to improve performance and productivity
- Proactively participate in Program Increment planning and backlog refinement including contributing to the effort estimation
- Lead IVV technical gate reviews both internal and with the Customer
- Contribute to the capitalisation and continuous improvement of IVV practices
- Identify risks and propose effective solution early to mitigate
- Actively participate in program configuration control boards (CCBs) and make defect priority recommendations
- Actively participate in technical working groups both internally and externally
- Actively participate in technical status reviews
- Promote knowledge sharing and ensuring that work is captured sufficiently for re-use across projects
- Provide support to bids, produce/review Engineering Cost estimates for any modification proposals to the functional baseline
Requirements
- Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT or other relevant qualification
- Test Engineering experience in complex software centric safety critical based systems (7+ years)
- Experience in working in a multi-disciplinary engineering environment (2+ years)
- Solid knowledge and experience in Systems and Software Engineering lifecycles (eg. EIA632, ISO/IEC15288)
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders across a complex environment
- Solid experience in leading and mentoring multi-skilled engineering team, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment
- Strong ability to communicate effectively with various stakeholders, including Project, Engineering Delivery Managers, Product Owners, Technical Design Authorities, Speciality engineers and the engineering team
- Collaboration tools including Jira, Confluence etc.
- Experience with the use of Requirement/Tests and Defects Management System
- Air Traffic Management domain expertise (inc. standards such as ICAO, Eurocontrol, AIDC) (Desirable)
- Experience in product delivery using agile methodologies like Lean methods (including PDCA, Kanban, Value-Stream Mapping); prior experience working Agile @ Scale framework is a bonus (Desirable)
- Programming/Scripting Languages; Java, C++, Ada, Python, Bash (Desirable)
- Experience working in a Linux/Unix development environment (Desirable)
- Solid experience in upskilling and training new engineers (Desirable)