Engineering Delivery Manager

Overview

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Location: Singapore, Singapore

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales operates across aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space with engineers designing innovative solutions. Thales established its presence in Singapore in 1973 to support aerospace activities in the Asia-Pacific region. The Engineering Delivery Management (EDM) role focuses on the technical management of all engineering activities, providing direction, guidance, mentoring, audit, workflow management, and resource coordination to achieve 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 deliver services and support for systems and/or sub-systems of products or 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 propose effective solutions; execute mitigation actions and report 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 while meeting customer requirements
• Ensure the timely delivery of software releases in support of the integration and test program
• Promote knowledge sharing and ensure work is captured for re-use across projects
• Provide support to bids, produce/review Engineering Cost estimates for modification proposals to the functional baseline
• Support analysis of customer 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 in accordance with approved baseline/schedule
• Manage customer expectations
• Deliver in accordance with Thales processes and practices 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 the 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 (e.g., EIA632, ISO/IEC15288)
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders across a complex environment
• Solid experience in leading and mentoring a 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 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, Specialty engineers and the engineering team under management
• Collaboration tools including Jira, Confluence, etc.

Desirable

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

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