Ground Transportation

Rejoignez Thales, leader mondial des technologies de sûreté et de sécurité pour les marchés de l’Aérospatial, du Transport, de la Défense et de la Sécurité. Fort de 61 000 collaborateurs dans 56 pays, le Groupe bénéficie d’une implantation internationale qui lui permet d’agir au plus près de ses clients, partout dans le monde.
 
Les équipes du site de Brétigny conçoivent et déploient pour les opérateurs de transport, en France et à l’international, des systèmes basés sur les technologies sans contact et les services associés. Les solutions intègrent des systèmes multimodaux de billettique, gestion des parcs de stationnement et péages routiers.
  
Au sein du domaine Billettique, l’activité Revenue Collection Systems (RCS) conçoit et fournit une large gamme de solutions billettiques allant de l'équipement d'une ligne au déploiement de systèmes intégrés multimodaux et multi-opérateurs basés sur les technologies sans contact, et adaptés aux réseaux de métro et de bus ; et se positionne en tant que précurseur des technologies sans contact et pionnier des systèmes multimodaux. 

Dans le cadre de notre activité en cours de démarrage de nouveaux projets exports, nous recherchons un(e) :

QUI ETES VOUS ?

Issu d’une formation ingénieur ou équivalent, vous disposez d’une expérience confirmée en conception et développement logiciel sur des systèmes complexes à logiciels prépondérants ?

Vous avez également acquis une expérience réussie en pilotage de sous-traitance et conduite de projets ?

Ouvert(e) sur les technologies innovantes, vous disposez d’une bonne connaissance des méthodologies Agile et Lean ?

Fort(e) d’excellentes capacités relationnelles, vous aimez le travail en équipe, êtes reconnu(e) pour votre leadership, votre qualité d'écoute et votre rigueur ?

Vous aimez rechercher des solutions en faisant preuve de curiosité et créativité ?

Vous parlez couramment anglais ? 


CE QUE NOUS POUVONS ACCOMPLIR ENSEMBLE  
 
En nous rejoignant, vous intégrerez le service « Architecture et Solution » qui a en charge la conception de solutions compétitives, innovantes et adaptées à un contexte en évolution.
En tant que Responsable sous-traitance, vous aurez en charge de coordonner cette démarche de Sous-traitance.

Vous vous verrez confier les missions suivantes :


•    Recenser les besoins en sous-traitance dans le Département Ingénierie.
•    Structurer avec les Achats et les Responsables du service de l’ingénierie la stratégie de sous-traitance :

o    Mise en place de Centres de Services (plateau technique, sous-traitance en UO)
o    Sous-traitance au forfait

•    Etre garant du suivi du processus Achat et être un acteur de fluidité de ce processus.
•    Etre le référent technique et financier des lots sous-traités de la définition à la réception.
•    Organiser et animer les différents COmités de PILotage (COPIL) avec les fournisseurs.
•    Négocier les variations de périmètre et les avenants associés.

The technology and systems expertise offered by Thales’s Transportation team powers safe, reliable and efficient services to rail networks the world over. In the UK, we deliver advanced signalling, supervision and control, integrated communications, security and information systems for urban rail, mainline rail and road networks. And as we continue to grow our business, we need more talent to join us in making our cities better connected.

Primary Purpose of the Role:

Reporting to the Technical Director, the Head of Technology and Innovation will be responsible for the identification, development and adoption of new technologies within the Thales Transportation Systems business in the UK.

Working closely with Thales Research and Technology, the Head of Technology and Innovation will be required to develop an awareness and familiarity of the Research and Technology programmes being undertaken within Thales – internal technology watch.

The Head of Technology and Innovation will establish working relationships with academia to develop an awareness and familiarity of the Transportation related Research and Technology programmes being undertaken in academia – academia technology watch.

The Head of Technology and Innovation will establish the necessary mechanisms to develop an awareness and familiarity of the Transportation related Research and Technology programmes being undertaken by other establishments – external technology watch.

The objective will be to lever new technologies in the products, systems, solutions and services offered by Thales Transportation Systems, where such new technologies provide the opportunity to increase the benefits offered to the customer whilst reducing the costs associated with delivery and operation.

Where necessary, the Head of Technology and Innovation will also work closely with the Division and with other units within the Thales Transportation Systems group of companies world-wide to explore and promote the adoption of new technologies within the respective product roadmaps as appropriate.

The Head of Technology and Innovation will be responsible for developing and maintaining a culture of innovation throughout the Transportation Systems business in the UK, encouraging and engendering innovation into everyone’s daily roles, including innovative improvements to the solutions and services offered, to the way in which solutions and services are delivered, and in adopting new technologies or new techniques.

The Head of Technology and Innovation will be required to support the development of investment cases and will be responsible for identifying and levering sources of funding for R&D activities, including R&T.

The Head of Technology and Innovation will be responsible for specifying and managing the delivery of research into specialist technical topics, technology investigations and technology exploration, as well as technology feasibility evaluation studies and technology demonstrations.


Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Identify, develop and adopt new technologies as appropriate
• Carry out technology watch, internal, academia and external, and evaluate applicability
• Establish links and relationships with academia
• Lever new technologies to enhance the products, systems, solutions and services offered, and to increase the efficiency of their delivery and operation
• Develop and maintain a culture of innovation
• Develop investment cases
• Identify sources and secure funding for R&D activities, including R&T
• Define and manage the delivery of research and technology
• Deliver new technology demonstrations leading to new technology adoption

Skills, experience and qualifications needed:

• Ability to work collaboratively within an integrated team containing Products and Systems technical expertise, strategically driven in a stimulating environment to meet stretched timescales;
• Strong technical communications at all levels;
• Technical and personnel leadership skills;
• Innovation;
• Transportation Systems familiarity.
• Experience in the adoption of new technology;
• Experience in the delivery of innovation initiatives aimed at improving operational performance;
• Knowledge of safe, high availability, resilient and secure solutions, concepts, engineering principles and processes;
• Experience of identification, evaluation and decomposition of customer technical requirements;
• Degree qualified in a scientific, technical or engineering discipline, or equivalent

Our common goal across Transportation Systems is to be acclaimed by our customers as the market leader for delivering safe and sustainable transportation solutions; yet significant challenges stand in the way. To support our achievement of this goal and differentiate GTS from its competitors, we are committed to quality at every level across GTS. We deliver this commitment by focusing on the quality of what we deliver to the customer, being proactive and looking at continually improving the way we work.

The technology and systems expertise offered by Thales’s Transportation team powers safe, reliable and efficient services to rail networks the world over. In the UK, we deliver advanced signalling, supervision and control, integrated communications, security and information systems for urban rail, mainline rail and road networks. And as we continue to grow our business, we need more talent to join us in making our cities better connected.

This is an opportunity for a Senior Systems Engineer – Networks with Thales to be working on the 4LM Programme. This is technical lead role rather than a management role and we are looking for someone who wants to develop their skills in a fast paced and dynamic environment.

This is a full time, permanent position based in our offices in West Ferry Circus, Canary Wharf. The salary for this position is £60,000 -£65,000 per year dependent on experience. The closing date for applications is Monday 4th September 2017.

Key responsibilities & Tasks:

• Lead the UK aspect of configuration of, troubleshooting and fault finding of network devices and servers.
• Support integration, validation, verification and qualification activities for the 4LM network.
• Define network test tools and procedures to support the above.
• Undertaking data network fault investigations in local and wide area environments, using information from multiple sources.
• Determine and implement a strategy for managing the 4LM network. This is anticipated to include:
• Work with the customer to produce an operations strategy (e.g. alarms, trending and traffic monitoring)
• Software configuration management and updating of network devices
• Work with the internal software team to develop our trending solution
• Provide technical support for assessing and developing mitigations against cyber security threats
• Interface with other departments, including: Field Operations, Engineering and the Customer
• Provide training and coaching on networks to colleagues

Essential requirements for role:

• Capable of working effectively in a team as part of a large organisation and across multiple time-zones
• Able to lead activities with minimal support and influence a larger organisation to achieve goals
• Experience in the following:
• Configuring routing and switching equipment.
• Configuring and management of firewalls.
• Configuring of Wireless Access Points.
• Implementing and troubleshooting fibre based networks.
• Network automation (scripting and/or orchestration tools)
• Working experience of cyber security threats and mitigations.
• Experience of capacity management, traffic analysis/performance and system sizing.

Preferable requirements:

• Familiar with CastleRock SNMPc/ Wireshark
• Familiar with VPN/ IPSec
• Familiar with serial to Ethernet converters
• Familiar with Windows Server (2008, 2012), Active Directory
• Familiar with Redhat Linux, bash/Perl scripting
• Familiar with PowerShell
• Familiar with Ansible
• Experience of analysing big data and trending
• CCNA or CCNP certified

Salary £60-65k

Location : London

Closing Date: 04/09/2017