Engineering Delivery Manager with French

Location: Bucharest, Romania

Thales Cybersecurity & Digital Identity is a global leader in digital security, building trust in an increasingly connected world. We design and deliver a wide range of products, software, and services based on two core technologies: digital identification and data protection.

Due to increased business activity, we are seeking an Engineering Delivery Management Role. As part of, you will be responsible for leading the solution team and delivering the solution within committed budget, schedule, quality and performance for successful bids and projects delivery. He/She coordinates and monitors the implementation of all engineering tasks throughout the whole life cycle of a bid/project.

Your mission

Help better ​​​​​​​deliver now

• Provide a reliable situation awareness
• Measure actual project progress
• Anticipate & solve issues
• Ensure having the right resources & skills at the right time
• Favor cooperation
• Share experience, look for reuse, seek advice

Help better deliver tomorrow

• Provide support to translate strategy into tactical roadmap
• Provide means to monitor and strengthen competitiveness
• Prepare for future client expectations & relationship (push/pull)
• Provide means to anticipate future engineering capabilities
• Jointly with the engineering organization, provide analysis and build improvement plans concerning required skills, technologies and building-blocks to have a successful delivery

Your responsibilities:

• Ensure engineering activities are well managed within constraints of bids/projects, approved architecture, design policy, contracts, and company quality requirements.
• Deploy adequate practices, Thales DDQS Process and Tools tailored to reach the required maturity according to Project delivery challenges
• Lead collaborative discussion and co-engineering between internal teams, vendors and customers to analyze, prioritize and validate stakeholders' requirements.
• Ensure that engineering scope, plans and activities satisfy customer requirements, and are delivered on time, on budget and with the required quality.
• Work closely with Design Authority to oversee and approve the outcome of evaluation studies on design alternatives, and to provide advice to both the customer and internal technical teams.
• With the Project manager, define the engineering work breakdown structure, project organization structure, tasks schedule, engineering KPIs, and associated engineering tasks. Tailor as required and ensure all baseline requirements are met in the leanest way.
• Define the strategy for development, build increments, validation, and project commissioning.
• Monitor progress based on relevant KPIs that allow anticipation and ensure issues discovered are addressed promptly according to different project phases.
• Perform periodic reporting to internal management and customer
• Ensure the implementation of multi-project synergies and lessons learnt, to optimize cost of technical solutions.
• Manage engineering risks & opportunities during bids and project phase and the related mitigation plans, guarantees program commitments, including those flown down to subcontractors and partners.
• Optimize technical work against costs, schedule and risks from design to validation and acceptance of the solution.
• Manage Work Package Managers (WPM) and Integration Verification, Validation and Qualification (IVVQ) Manager to ensure successful completion of respective milestones.
• Other duties as agreed with the Project Manager

Skills needed:

• You know how to verify the technical deliverables of engineering teams (customer needs, OCD, requirements, architecture choice…)
• You are able to lead and manage technical engineering projects, meeting the requirements with a clear view of the risks and opportunities
• You are able to engage and influence a diverse set of stakeholders as well as creating clear and achievable goals
• You are able to take decisions–even in uncertain contexts
• You are highly customer focused with excellent communication skills
• French language skills (at least b2)

You will be able to demonstrate the following, aligned to the Thales Leadership Behavioral Model:

• acting with agility to ensure that the business objectives remain in focus
• dealing with multiple strands of complexity to achieve business objectives
• engaging with stakeholders to achieve a common goal
• creating a competitive advantage by managing risk, identifying opportunities and fostering continuous improvement
• supporting the development of others to ensure we continuously improve for our customers

The Engineering Delivery Manager  will work closely with the Project Manager and the Project Design Authority (PDA) for the specific projects.

At Thales, we’re committed to fostering a workplace where respect, trust, collaboration, and passion drive everything we do. Here, you’ll feel empowered to bring your best self, thrive in a supportive culture, and love the work you do. Join us, and be part of a team reimagining technology to create solutions that truly make a difference – for a safer, greener, and more inclusive world.

Thales is a global technology leader trusted by governments, institutions, and enterprises to tackle their most demanding challenges. From quantum applications and artificial intelligence to cybersecurity and 6G innovation, our solutions empower critical decisions rooted in human intelligence. Operating at the forefront of defence and security, aerospace and space, cybersecurity and digital identity, we’re driven by a mission to build a future we can all trust.

In Romania, we are advancing innovation through software engineering, research and development, delivering solutions in key markets in which Thales Group operates. Our engineers design, develop and integrate solutions that impact global industries – from fully operational systems and subsystems for naval warfare and maritime security operations, to air traffic management systems, satellite-based solutions, tactical indoor simulations, identity and biometric technologies and more.