Intermediate Systems Engineer, LCISR ISTAR

Position: Intermediate Systems Engineer, LC4ISR ISTAR
Location:

Ottawa, Canada 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.

For decades, Ottawa has been a global technology leader. Today, Canada’s capital holds one of the brightest and most diverse technological ecosystems in North America. Voted as Canada’s best place to live 2017 by Maclean's, Ottawa offers a low cost of living with a high quality of life. The Thales Ottawa office has been a major supplier and long-term trusted partner to DND, enabling the Canadian Armed Forces and the Canadian Coast Guard to achieve mission success.

This role is Hybrid Ottawa

Intermediate Systems Engineer – LC4

ISR
- Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance (ISTAR)

Position Summary

Thales Canada, Defence & Security is engaged in supporting the Canadian Army’s Land Command, Control, Communications & Computers (C4) Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (LC4

ISR) systems which enable critical decisions on a daily basis. Together with industry partners, Thales is building on the existing networks and applications to enhance digitized operations, support communications between joint and allied forces, and monitor and defend against the threats and evolving capabilities of potential adversaries.

Thales Canada is looking for people interested in directly contributing to the evolution of advanced digitized operations for the Canadian Army into the future, both in Canada and on overseas deployments. The LC4

ISR work is broadly divided into four areas, and this opportunity is with the Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) group at our Ottawa office. We are looking for a systems engineer to lead and manage a team using agile methodologies. The system engineer will also be responsible to lead- test automation development for the STANAG 4586 (Standard Interfaces of UAV Control System (UCS) for NATO UAV Interoperability

Key Areas of Responsibility

A systems engineer should be comfortable in multidisciplinary and collaborative environments, performing duties such as:

Tailor the system engineering process, practices and tools;

Estimate and appropriately decompose work in an agile lifecycle process;

Provide timely and accurate status updates;

Develop the preliminary and detailed designs for system and subsystem elements;

Review and validate internal and subcontractor designs, plans, and schedules;

Identify, characterize, and describe issues in the system or its design through problem reports and document and design reviews;

Author technical documentation to capture the system and subsystem designs including the architecture, interfaces, and installation elements;

Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure the designs are consistent with needs, desires, and concerns of the end-users;

Support the development of verification and validation artifacts including plans and procedures;

Collaborate with other functions during the implementation and integration of the system and subsystem designs;

Resolution of technical issues arising during the implementation, integration and testing of the system and subsystem elements;

Support the installation and/or integration testing of the systems remotely or on customer site; and/or

Technical subcontract management including management of work scope and compliance of the (subcontractor) supplied solution;

The specific duties associated with the project role could include:

Lead a team using a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Estimate and decompose system and subsystem work into manageable tasks

STANAG 4586 ED4 Test Automation:

Lead test automation development for the STANAG 4586 ED4 (Standard Interfaces of UAV Control System (UCS) for NATO UAV Interoperability). This includes creating the high level automation plan, selecting and reviewing the standard and implementation guide, and selecting the test development priority.

Maintain the test environment infrastructure in the virtualize…