Engineering Delivery Manager

Location: Singapore, Singapore

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Thales established its presence in Singapore in 1973 to support the expansion of aerospace-related activities in the Asia-Pacific region. Throughout the last four decades, the company grew from strength to strength and is today involved in the primary businesses of Aerospace (including Air Traffic Management), Defence & Security, Ground Transportation and Digital Identity & Security.

Thales today employs over 2,100 people in Singapore across all its business areas.

The Engineering Delivery Management (EDM) role is focused on technical management of all engineering activities. They provide direction, guidance, expert advice, mentoring, support, audit, and workflow management (tasking prioritisation and resource coordination) in support of achieving project objectives and milestones in accordance with the approved schedule.

The EDM will manage a multi-skilled team of system, software, integration, V&V and infrastructure engineers to provide on time delivery of services and support for systems and/or sub-systems of products, or for projects, across multiple platforms.

As an Engineering Delivery Manager, you are accountable for

• Provide direction, expert advice, mentoring, and workflow management (including task prioritisation and resource coordination) in support of achieving project objectives and milestones
• Lead a multi-skilled team of engineers to deliver software engineering solutions, aligning team capability to meet customer expectations
• Lead technical reviews, workshops, peer reviews and project reviews as appropriate for the program
• Prepare and lead the monthly TFR and support the WPPR
• Communicate, analyse, plan and report as necessary to align team capability and customer expectations
• Identify / Review risks, and proposing effective solutions; executing mitigation actions and reporting on outcomes / cost savings and residual risks
• Define and tailor the software engineering environment and the process, practices and tools applicable to the project
• Provide guidance to technical teams with regard to engineering matters aligned to the agreed architecture, to ensure effectiveness whilst meeting customer requirements
• Ensure the timely delivery of software releases in support of the integration and test program
• Promote knowledge sharing and ensuring that work is captured sufficiently for re-use across projects
• Provide support to bids, produce/review Engineering Cost estimates for any modification proposals to the functional baseline
• Provide support during the analysis of Customers requirements to propose and negotiate win–win solution responses with Customers based in Australia and worldwide
• Ensure clear communications (written and verbal) with external customers
• Manage customer scope iaw approved baseline/schedule
• Manage customer expectations
• Deliver iaw Thales processes and practises and contribute to their improvement

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT or other relevant qualification

Essential Experience

• Solid experience of managing the development of real time distributed complex software centric solutions in a safety critical environment
• Solid experience in total life cycle of complex software development, including processes and responsibilities at each stage in the cycle
• Solid knowledge and experience in Systems Engineering lifecycle (eg. EIA632, ISO/IEC15288)
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders across a complex environment
• Solid eperience of leading and mentoring team of multi-skilled engineering team, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment
• Solid experience in upskilling and training new engineers
• Experience in managing software development projects using Agile methodologies and the ability to drive iterative development processes
• Strong experience of using Earned Value Management, Work Package Control and reporting, with exposure to scheduling tools (MS Project, Primavera etc.)
• Financial / budgetary management of engineering work packages or tasks
• Strong ability to communicate effectively with various stakeholders, including Project, Engineering Delivery Managers, Product Owners, Technical Design Authorities, Speciality engineers and the engineering team under management.
• Collaboration tools including Jira, Confluence etc.

Desirable

• Air Traffic Management domain expertise (inc. standards such as ICAO, Eurocontrol, AIDC)
• Experience in product delivery using agile methodologies like Lean methods (including PDCA, Kanban, Value-Stream Mapping); prior experience working Agile @ Scale framework is a bonus
• Programming/Scripting Languages; Java, C++, Ada, Python, Bash
• Experience working in a Linux/Unix development environment

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