Engineering Delivery Manager

Location: Syracuse, United States of America

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Engineering Delivery Manager

Syracuse, NY or Arlington, VA (Hybrid)

Position Summary

The FAA’s Brand-New Air Traffic Control System and other initiatives related to Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Advanced Air Mobility are fueling the growth of Thales’ Airspace Mobility Solutions team. We are expanding our teams in Arlington, Virginia and Syracuse, New York and seek talented individuals who want to be part of these ambitious initiatives shaping the future of aviation.  We are looking for people with a passion for aviation and ready to deliver innovative solutions built to the nation’s highest safety and security standards. America’s aviation moment is now. Thales has the solutions, experience and expertise to execute now.  Come join our journey.

Thales is looking for an Engineering Delivery Manager, who serves as the single-point engineering authority for highly complex, software-centric bids and delivery programs and who is the accountable owner of the end-to-end engineering solution, defining, governing, and continuously optimizing the engineering strategy, system lifecycle, operating model, and enabling processes and tools to ensure the successful realization of technically robust, certifiable, and commercially competitive solutions.

In this position, you will provide hands-on technical and leadership direction to orchestrate engineering activities across the full lifecycle—including requirements definition, software and system development, qualification, integration, validation, and deployment—establish and enforce best-in-class engineering practices with a strong Design-to-Cost and Design-for-Performance mindset, develop and consolidate reusable cost and instantiation models, challenge estimates through historical data and capitalization analysis, support pricing strategy, bid shaping, and capture activities, lead and align cross-functional teams, partners, and suppliers across a highly matrixed, international environment, secure appropriate engineering capabilities and resources, drive execution through engineering performance plans, KPIs, and governance, apply advanced planning and control techniques including WBS/OBS structuring, milestone management, dependency mapping, and Earned Value Management (EVM), ensure full compliance with safety, software assurance, regulatory, and certification standards, manage technical risk, coordinate technical reviews and approvals in support of customer acceptance and delivery, and contribute to the consistent delivery of competitive, high-quality, and certifiable engineering solutions achieved on time, within budget, and in alignment with customer and business objectives.

Regulatory Compliance Requirements

• US - CUI Regulatory Compliance Requirement – Must be a US Person as defined in applicable law.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Serve as the senior engineering authority at all Bid and Program Gate reviews (BL/GBU), representing engineering interests and accountability by ensuring full technical validation prior to Cost Commitment Reviews and formal Gate approvals; actively engage in bid governance forums and client-facing meetings to articulate and defend the engineering solution, delivery strategy, and integrated schedule; and act as the primary technical interface with customer engineering organizations, partners, and suppliers, ensuring alignment on architectures, interfaces, certification readiness, and delivered/installed baselines across integrated solutions.
• Define, govern, and deliver the Engineering Solution Strategy, including the end-to-end system development lifecycle and the tailoring of project-specific engineering processes, practices, methods, and toolchains derived from domain and corporate reference frameworks; author, maintain, and govern the Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP) and associated engineering management documentation; structure and lead co-engineering activities; and approve, cascade, and enforce lower-level engineering plans, subcontractor engineering requirements, and technical statements of work.
• Provide end-to-end leadership across the full engineering lifecycle, including requirements and specifications management, software and systems engineering