Principle Systems Engineer

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Our Benefits

• Annual Bonus + Private Medical Insurance
• ThalesFlex – Hybrid work environment
• Fitness Passport Discount – Access to a network of Gyms across AUS as cheap as $14.95 P/W
• Employee discounts with a number of affiliates (Travel, Car hire, Tech, Medical Insurance)
• Modernised Paid Parental Leave
• Veterans Leave
• Novated Lease options
• Family support through our partnership with Parents at Work
• Personal & professional training development opportunities
• Sonder – Wellbeing & Support Partner

Our Team

From take-off to landing, Thales offers the most complete range of solutions to provide dynamic Air Traffic Services to support today's growing domestic and international travel requirements. Utilising this knowledge and experience Thales Australia will deliver a harmonised Civil/Military Air Traffic Management System (CMATS / OneSKY) in Australia to Airservices Australia and Defence. 

This will enable a new level of safety and efficiency, while also reducing delays for the travelling public and providing opportunities to improve environmental outcomes. OneSKY will transform Australia’s sky and we are proud to be partners in its delivery.

Your role:

We have a need for a Principle Systems Engineer for one of the key CMATS subsystems, TopSKY, which provides the core Air Traffic Management functionality of CMATS.

In this role you will work in an international multidisciplinary feature team focused on the design, development and validation of a TopSKY function.  You will be responsible for the technical design and will lead the product-release plans.

The Principle System Engineer works closely with the Product Owner who has the global vision at business level. And he works closely as well with the Solution Architect and he is able to take over some architecture tasks.

This position is based at the World Trade Centre in Melbourne CBD.

Some of your key responsibilities will include:

• Organise the co-engineering of the Feature Team working in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Design and maintain the systems engineering artefacts of the Function, including; requirements, capability description, functional behaviour and data exchanges (internal and external interfaces)
• Support the Solution Architect in writing the architecture document (SSDD).
• Ensure the transversal constraints related to the function are considered (Safety, Human Factor, Performance, Security)
• Build and manage key relationships, synthesize information from multiple sources, maintain Initiative Owner need in the Team Backlog, and communicate effectively with a variety of audiences — all with a bias toward delivering, and learning, quickly
• Contribute to the definition of the validation strategy
• Contribute and participate to the technical reviews (SOR, SFR, FIRR, SwRR)
• Provides technical oversight to other teams within the project/bid, ensuring that the designed solution is implemented as per the design and in accordance to the project/bid schedule and cost and quality constraints.

On day one you will come with:

Air Traffic Management domain expertise in one or more of the following functional areas:

• Coordination
• Surveillance
• Adaptation/Configuration
• Interpartition/SWIM
• Profile
• HMI
• Tower
• Simulation and Training
• Safety Nets/Conflict Detection
• AMAN/DMAN

• Experience with Air Traffic Management standards eg. ICAO, Eurocontrol, AID
• Proven experience in Systems Engineering (7+ years) including; Requirements, Design, Integration and Verification and Validation
• Experience with Systems Engineering Standards eg. ISO/IEC15288
• Proven experience in the development of products and projects in a variety of methodologies, with a particular focus on iterative/agile development
• Experience with Safety, Security and Human Factors standards and practices

It’s easy to dismiss the perfect opportunity if you don’t see yourself as the perfect fit. If this role feels right – no matter your background or personal circumstances – please introduce yourself or join our community. We’re committed to supporting a diverse workplace, and that starts here.

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