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Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

PMO IA / Chief of Staff

Data EngineeringPosted on Nov 6
Full-timeVélizy-Villacoublay, FranceNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • A BAC+5 qualification is required.
  • Skills or experience in Data Engineering, ideally in an industrial, technological, or highly constrained environment.
  • Knowledge of Python and SQL.
  • Knowledge of ETL/ELT and pipeline orchestration.
  • Knowledge of data integration and APIs.
  • Knowledge of data modeling and transformation.
  • Knowledge of data quality, cataloging, and traceability.
  • Knowledge of access management and data security.
  • Knowledge of CI/CD practices applied to Data.
  • Experience with cloud, hybrid, or on-premises environments.
  • Knowledge of corpus preparation for RAG architectures.
  • Knowledge of chunking, embeddings, and semantic search.
  • Attention to production concerns including robustness, performance, monitoring, maintainability, and operating costs.
  • Ability to work in an environment where methods and standards are still being established, balancing rapid experimentation, security, and industrialization.
  • Ability to communicate with technical, business, Data, Cybersecurity, and Architecture stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Assess the availability, quality, accessibility, and sensitivity of data required for AI use cases.
  • Connect and integrate industrial, technical, or documentary data from varied sources.
  • Design and maintain robust data pipelines.
  • Prepare reliable, documented, and reusable datasets.
  • Prepare corpora for generative AI solutions and RAG architectures, including cleaning, classification, metadata enrichment, document chunking, and embeddings.
  • Ensure data quality, traceability, and compliance.
  • Account for access rights, confidentiality, classification, and sovereignty constraints.
  • Contribute to industrializing pipelines and integrating them into CI/CD, MLOps, and LLMOps environments.
  • Implement monitoring and supervision of data processing.
  • Collaborate with business, Data, Architecture, Cybersecurity, and Governance teams.
  • Document data sources, transformations, and usage rules.
  • Create reusable components and standards for future LAS AI teams.
  • Share expertise and contribute to the collective's skills development.
  • Help transform initial use cases into secure, maintainable AI products that can be deployed at larger scale.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with generative AI solutions, large language models, or RAG architectures is an important asset.
  • Experience in defense, aerospace, critical systems, or an environment with stringent security requirements is appreciated.

About the Company

Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Thales designs and delivers critical technology for aerospace, defense, and digital security. Its products include electronics, software, and data-security systems that power air travel, payments, and modern military platforms, by integrating hardware and software to build systems such as avionics, radar, cybersecurity, and secure communications that collect sensor data and protect networks. It stands out through deep industrial experience, end-to-end solutions across defense, aerospace, and cybersecurity, and a focus on AI and quantum tech, aided by strategic acquisitions and partial state ownership. Its goal is to provide reliable, secure, and connected technologies that support national security, public safety, and everyday life by solving complex security and connectivity challenges.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Meudon, France
Founded
1893

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