Team Lead Systems Engineering & IVVQ (w/m/d)

Team Lead Systems Engineering & IVVQ

Location: Stuttgart, Germany

Thales is a worldwide leading provider of cutting-edge technologies for defense, aerospace, cyber security, and digital identity.

In Ditzingen, you will find security solutions for monitoring and securing borders and border controls, for the protection of civilian and military facilities, and for tactical communication. If you want to develop and produce tactical and field-tested radio equipment for networked operational command in military operations, this is the right place for you. Become part of the Thales expert team for radio equipment, cybersecurity and cryptography, for encryption components and hardware security modules, as well as for electronic key management systems. We are looking forward to you!

Your mission as Team Lead Systems Engineering & IVVQ:

• Leadership of a team consisting of 15 system engineers and architects, as well as IVVQ engineers (Integration, Verification, Validation, Qualification) for the development of safety-critical systems and products for civilian and military customers.
• Responsibility for the professional development of the team and for efficient resource utilization in projects.
• Ensuring high-quality results through adherence to defined processes, tools, and quality standards.
• Close cross-functional collaboration with project managers, executives, and other team leaders in a matrix structure.
• Operational support for technical solution finding and taking on technical engineering management tasks in projects.

We look forward to:

• A completed degree in information technology, electrical engineering, or a comparable qualification.
• Experience in the design and modeling of complex system architectures as well as in requirements management and the creation of system concepts for the description and validation.
• Knowledge of relevant security standards such as BSI Basic Protection, IEC 62443 and Common Criteria (ISO 15408) and ideally experience with tools for the creation of information security concepts (e.g. SAVe).
• Secure handling of modern development tools (e.g. Visual Studio, IntelliJ, Jira, Gitlab) and practical experience with agile and classical development methods.
• Leadership experience or potential in leading technical teams as well as in mentoring and coaching of employees.
• Very good German and English language skills in speech and writing.

Thales invests more than 4 billion euros annually in research and development in key technologies such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, quantum and cloud technologies.

In 2024, the group generated a turnover of 20.6 billion euros.

For more than 83,000 employees in 68 countries, we open up groundbreaking perspectives, realize individual career paths, and enable creative freedom. This is achieved through courage, diversity, and the firm will to shape the challenging demands of our time more securely and inclusively. With our sustainable, value-oriented personnel management, we actively advocate for diversity.