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Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Engineering Delivery Manager, System & Ground Segment

Program ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeToulouse, FranceNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Engineering education or equivalent engineering training.
  • Significant experience managing system-engineering activities, ground segments, or complex systems with a substantial software component.
  • A good level of written and spoken English is essential.
  • Ability to maintain an overall perspective while effectively managing critical technical topics.
  • Ability to bring teams together, coordinate multiple stakeholders, and make decisions in complex environments.

Responsibilities

  • Define and manage the system and ground-segment delivery strategy and the associated engineering plan.
  • Coordinate technical teams, industrial partners, and suppliers to ensure smooth and coherent execution of activities.
  • Track milestones, dependencies, risks, and action plans needed for project success.
  • Manage system integration, verification, and validation activities, ensuring solutions comply with mission requirements.
  • Ensure control of interfaces across ground-segment components, including mission services and operations, satellite control and monitoring, ground stations and communication networks, and processing, archiving, and dissemination of observation data.
  • Anticipate potential schedule, cost, or performance deviations and implement appropriate corrective actions.
  • Facilitate resolution of technical issues and arbitrate delivery priorities with technical and program managers.
  • Prepare transition to operations teams by ensuring documentation, procedures, training, and transfer of responsibility are in place.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering practices and develop a product-line approach that encourages reuse of solutions across projects.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience managing technical projects or system-engineering activities.
  • Knowledge of space ground segments, satellite operations, or Earth-observation missions.
  • Experience with integration, verification, and validation of complex systems.
  • Knowledge of risk, interface, and technical-dependency management.
  • Knowledge of model-based systems engineering (MBSE) methods and tools, such as Capella and SysML.
  • Knowledge of cloud environments, DevOps, SecOps, and cybersecurity.

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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