Hybrid Firmware Manager

at Thales

• Job title: Firmware Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Professional Certificate
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Reading, United Kingdom

About the role

• Digital Electronics Discipline Manager responsible for FPGA management and development within Thales UK Engineering team. Leading digital electronics discipline and ensuring delivery performance across multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Define, support and/or commence execution of FPGA Engineering management activities on a range of Domains within the Thales UK perimeter
• Accountable for all aspects of Delivery Performance of the respective Digital Electronic Discipline, including the delivery of tasks, activities, work packages and the provision of resources
• Ensuring adherence to processes, methods and practices
• Optimally mitigating stakeholder and customer escalations and exceptions
• Leading a culture of continuous improvement
• Manage and optimise the FPGA design, development and verification capability within Hardware
• Support the development and integration of the UK Hardware engineering environments aligned with UK Engineering Environments and the Thales Group strategy
• Work collaboratively with Business Lines to implement the Engineering Governance and Organisation Principles to deliver strong engineering performance, driving down inefficiencies and improving competency.
• Act as the Team Lead (Line Manager) for the employees within your direct reporting line.

Requirements

• Experience managing the complete FPGA development lifecycle, particularly digital architecting and FPGA verification
• Digital design and leadership experience
• Professional qualification in FPGA development or proven equivalent experience
• Strong knowledge and proven application of hardware engineering project delivery and processes across the full project lifecycle
• Experience of working in an engineering environment is essential
• Experience of engineering management leadership and in managing complex teams and projects
• Flexible and pro-active approach to perform effectively in a fast-changing business environment.
• Security Clearance Requirement: This role requires you to be a UK National and achieve Security Clearance (SC) without any caveats.

Benefits

• Your health and well-being matters to us
• Flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times.
• Support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.