Integration, Verification, Validation, and Qualification Manager (IVVQM)

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Organisation Context

The Airspace Mobility Solutions (AMS) business part of the Global Business Unit Land and Air Systems is providing leading edge Air Traffic Management (ATM) Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) Security and Digital Aviation solutions for the Commercial and Defence sectors.

The AMS business manages 11% of the worlds airspace and with revenues of over 500 million Euros worldwide is the global market leader in airspace management Singapore the business focus is the delivery and support of two key ATM solutions including TopSKY-ATC(HE) and LORADS-III.

This role will initially support the LIII program.

Role Description

The Integration Verification Validation and Qualification Manager (IVVQM) is responsible for defining and executing the IV&V strategy to ensure that the overall solution satisfies all contractual operational and regulatory requirements and is deemed fit for purpose. The IVVQM also provides direction guidance expert advice and mentoring to the IVV team to ensure that project IVV objectives and milestones are achieved in accordance with the approved schedule.

Responsibilities

• Define the Project IVV and Transition Strategy
• Develop and maintain the IVVQ Plan
• Define and monitor IVV KPIs and make recommendations on strategies to improve performance and productivity
• Proactively participate in Program Increment planning and backlog refinement including contributing to the effort estimation
• Lead IVV technical gate reviews both internal and with the Customer
• Contribute to the capitalisation and continuous improvement of IVV practices
• Identify risks and propose effective solution early to mitigate
• Actively participate in program configuration control boards (CCBs) and make defect priority recommendations
• Actively participate in technical working groups both internally and externally
• Actively participate in technical status reviews
• Promote knowledge sharing and ensuring that work is captured sufficiently for re-use across projects
• Provide support to bids produce/review Engineering Cost estimates for any modification proposals to the functional baseline
• Provide support during the analysis of Customers requirements to propose and negotiate winwin solution responses with Customers based in Australia and worldwide
• Ensure clear communications (written and verbal) with external customers
• Manage customer scope iaw approved baseline/schedule
• Deliver iaw Thales processes and practises and contribute to their improvement

Knowledge Skills & Experience

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering Computer Science IT or other relevant qualification

Essential Experience

• Test Engineering experience in complex software centric safety critical based systems (7 years).
• Experience in working in a multi-disciplinary engineering environment (2 years)
• Solid knowledge and experience in Systems and Software Engineering lifecycles (eg. 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 multi-skilled engineering team fostering a collaborative and productive work environment
• Strong ability to communicate effectively with various stakeholders including Project Engineering Delivery Managers Product Owners Technical Design Authorities Speciality engineers and the engineering team.
• Collaboration tools including Jira Confluence etc.
• Experience with the use of Requirement/Tests and Defects Management System

Desirable:

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

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