Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership:
- Collaborate closely with the Head of Discipline and the other Discipline Managers to define and execute software engineering vision and strategy, aligning it with the specific region's context and objectives.
- Contribute to Software Engineering Discipline Governance
Competitiveness Engagement:
- Monitor regular competitiveness, assess the cost model through benchmark across Thales organization and group similar discipline, challenge bid quotation.
- Responsible for maintaining and upgrading discipline cost model definition based on capitalization and metrics.
- Perform Technical Reviews associated with their discipline on Bids/projects
- Roll-out Make Team Buy and footprint strategy for the forecasted workload (incoming activities)
Transformation Agent:
- Contribute to the formalization and communication of the discipline processes, practices and tools, ensuring they meet international standards.
- Communicate, standardize and reinforce the software quality standards and monitor their deployment.
- Responsible for the adoption of new technologies linked to our business (Digital tools, Cloud, CI/CD pipeline, containers).
Talent Development:
- Work closely with the Discipline Managers and Engineers to promote and enhance people training and are upskilled to build a strong and sustainable discipline.
- Map current and forecasted soft & hard skills to identify discipline trends and propose upskilling plan (training, coaching).
- Interact regularly with team members to define and support engineers in their career development plan.
- Provide leadership to coach, motivate, and lead team members to their optimum performance levels.
- Manage recruitment and contractor selection
Resource Allocation:
- Assist in the allocation of people to support projects and product's needs. Ensure & secure the workload to fulfil current and future needs.
- Projects and Products Oversight:
- Monitor and assess how software current practices and tools contribute to projects and products to ensure they meet established objectives and milestones.
- Support improvements raised by the teams to processes and tools in order to boost quality, efficiency and delivery on-time.
- Ensure that any major risk is identified and managed in the scope of the discipline for any project, product or bid.
Regulation and Compliance:
- Ensure that software engineering practices are in compliance with local and international regulation and standards and advise on the development of optimal tradeoff to deliver a compliant and design to cost solutions.
- Interface to the team for non-engineering departments to flow down information from HSE, HR, Facilities, …
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Qualifications
- Degree in Engineering, IT or related discipline
- Postgraduate studies in Systems Engineering (Desirable)
Essential Experience
- Demonstrated experience in people management including team leadership, mentorship, and the ability to build and lead high performing teams (Time Size > 20)
- Proven experience in senior software engineering leadership role, preferably in an international and large organizational setting – 7+ years
- Proven experience in developing software products and projects in complex and multi-stakeholder context
- Experience in working in a complex, multidisciplinary, multi-site and international organisation
- Experience in safety critical development and associated software assurance is a plus
- Ability to develop and promote high performing teams
- Develop and foster a culture of continuous improvement
- Coaching and sharing of his/her know-how
- Ability to engage senior stakeholders having different objectives
- Accountability, transparency and curiosity
- A positive attitude combined with excellent interpersonal and motivational skills.
- An ability to successfully manage change
- Comfort in facing and managing complexity
- Sound judgement and independent decision-making capability where necessary
Desirable:
- Good knowledge of Air Traffic Management systems
General / Special Requirements
GENERAL
- Assist in ensuring a harmonious work environment in all departments that you are working with by upholding Thales' key values.
- An advocate for continuous improvement and knowledge sharing
- An advocate for diversity and inclusion who will be actively involved in implementing change initiatives to achieve our diversity goals
- An advocate for a culture of continuous improvement
- An advocate for Accountability, transparency and curiosity
- Comply with all relevant company Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental policies and framework and work practices with the intent of preventing or minimising accidental exposures to self, colleagues, visitors and/or the environment and to ensure a safe work practises at all times.
- Comply with all relevant Company policies and procedures.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
- Be eligible for Security Clearance from the Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs (CAT2)
- Occasional international travel may be required