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Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Director of Engineering Environments Strategy and Transformation

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMassy, FranceNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • A degree in engineering or a Bac+5-level qualification.
  • A career built in complex and demanding industrial environments.
  • Experience managing large organizations, leading multidisciplinary teams, delivering major transformation programs, and defining technological or operational strategies.
  • A sound understanding of systems, software, hardware, platforms, and development environments.
  • Ability to bring people together in complex environments, influence senior stakeholders, align stakeholders with differing interests, and demonstrate strategic vision, execution, results orientation, and value creation.

Responsibilities

  • Lead engineering solutions and services covering systems engineering, software, hardware, and engineering platforms and workshops.
  • Define strategic directions, oversee their execution, and ensure the overall performance of services provided to engineering teams.
  • Contribute to improving quality, productivity, cost control, and programs’ capacity to innovate.
  • Set a five-year roadmap for engineering environments, anticipating technological, methodological, and organizational changes, including changes related to artificial intelligence.
  • Identify strategic capabilities to develop and direct associated investments to prepare for future engineering needs.
  • Deploy technologies and approaches that sustainably improve team effectiveness, including artificial intelligence applied to engineering, automation, collaborative platforms, cloud solutions, and process digitalization.
  • Develop talent, prepare critical future expertise, and create the conditions for sustained excellence.
  • Mobilize managers, architects, and experts around shared ambitions and high-impact transformation objectives.
  • Build innovation plans, set investment priorities, and ensure tangible value returns for the Business Lines.
  • Define Core and Non-Core strategies, manage strategic partnerships, and optimize make-or-buy decisions.
  • Work closely with engineering departments, competency centers, IT, and Group expert communities.
  • Help align business, digital, industrial, and cybersecurity priorities.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with digital transformation, engineering industrialization, cloud, or artificial intelligence.

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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