Location: Crawley, United KingdomIn 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.
Thales is a great place to work so diversity, integrity and a passion for what we do are very important drivers for us.
Are you a Software Product Owner that specifically have a software or systems engineering background? Do you want to work with a highly regarded team who will support your learning and development? We would like to welcome you to consider applying to Thales.
What the role has to offer:
- As a Technical Product Owner, you will work both as part of an agile development team and as part of our Technical Leadership team.
- You will be an important member of the team that will maximise the value of the products delivered by the development / deployment team and are in charge of satisfying the needs of the internal customers
- You will be the primary interface between the development team, the Portfolio Product Owner and the end users of the engineering environments
Our opportunity:
Thales is transforming the way in which we deliver our tools to engineers. In this role you will be helping to build the next generation of Engineering Environments in the UK using modern deployment methods on a cloud based platform. You will also be the Technical Authority/Architect for your specific area. We have two Technical Product Owner opportunity: one of these roles will champion the non-LEWIS applications (old and new, and how we archive programme work securely), and the other will be more cloud software development environment biased
Key tasks/Responsibilities:
- Represents the engineering customers/users of the Engineering Environments.
- Specifies the needs, validates the acceptance criteria and approves the completed features.
- Defines the order in which the features for their team will be developed and works with the Portfolio Product Owner and other Product Owners to ensure that this fits with the objectives for the overall team.
- Takes important decisions concerning the direction the solutions for their team.
- Is accountable for the Product Backlog for their team in terms of content and priorities.
- Collects feedback from end users and other stakeholders during iteration reviews
About you:
We recruit at many levels so we would be very interested to hear from you regardless of your length of experience. However, the following would be very beneficial:
- Thorough understanding of, and experience of applying, the current best practices for software development including: DevSecOps, Agile, CI/CD, TDD, BDD, XP and Lean.
- Understanding of both cloud and secure development environments to be able to architect and improve both existing and new bespoke environments.
- Ability to define and implement a suite of service offerings to support their architected development environments including required tooling, infrastructure, and internal services.
- Good understanding of cloud and enabling technologies and practices including Kubernetes, Containers, GitOps.
Experience in some or all of the following software applications is a plus:
- Attlassian Suite (Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence)
- Jfrog Platform (Artifactory/XRay)
- GitLab
- Siemens Polarion
Education and Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or similar Engineering discipline, although relevant experience will be considered in lieu of this.
Behaviors and Values:
- Demonstrates behaviors which support the Thales Leadership Model:
- Take smart risks
- Create customer intimacy
- Promote collaboration
- Key Competencies:
- Value Analysis Cost Estimate
- Develop and Manage Requirements
- Lean/Agile Engineering
- Problem Solving
- Risk and Opportunities Management
- Self-Motivated/Flexible with a constructive 'can do' attitude
- Able to question / challenge established processes and offer innovative alternatives
- Demonstrates attention to detail, particularly in investigating problems, and a pride in producing accurate work
- Excellent technical observational and communications skills
Connect with Andreea Burcea, Talent Acquisition Partner #LI-BA1 who is eager to explore together with you this exciting opportunity.
Security Clearance statement
As standard, all successful candidates must possess the permanent right to work in the UK, and will be required to go through Government security clearance at BPSS (Baseline Personal Security Standard) Level prior to starting with us and then to obtain full Security Clearance (SC) in line with the United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) requirements above.
To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks. As part of the vetting process you will be asked to provide evidence of your identity, eligibility to work in the UK, time spent abroad over the last 5 years, as well as employment and / or educational history.
For further details of the evidence required to apply for security clearance please follow this link https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels .
What We Can Offer
We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a variety of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.
Flexibility
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.
Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.
In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.
At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.
Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment,if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.
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