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The role involves coordinating delivery activities for a team of approximately 20 professionals, ensuring system reliability, delivering new features, and improving product performance to meet current and future customer needs.\nRole purpose:\nThe Engineering Delivery Manager (EDM) owns the engineering delivery interface with customers and segments, ensuring that successive product or solution versions are delivered in line with agreed needs, quality expectations and commitments.\nThe EDM defines the overarching delivery strategy and master schedule, aligns initiative owners and stakeholders, and steers progress, priorities, risks and corrective actions across the engineering lifecycle.\nKey responsibilities:\nCustomer and stakeholder management\nAct as the primary engineering delivery interface for customers and segment stakeholders; build trusted relationships and maintain clear expectations.\nCoordinate internally with Initiative Owners, Business Managers, Solution Management and engineering teams; communicate a shared delivery vision and strategy.\nDelivery strategy and execution\nDefine the global delivery strategy, multi-version roadmap and associated master schedule, translating customer needs into requirements and a coherent development approach.\nOwn and coordinate delivery of successive versions to customers and segments; structure the delivery process, milestones, dependencies and commitments.\nAlign and arbitrate priorities between versions and Initiative Owners, taking decisions when trade-offs or uncertainty arise.\nOversee technical engineering activities across the project lifecycle, including development planning, technical debt, co-contracting and subcontracting.\nPerformance, quality and risk\nMonitor and report delivery progress to the program using dedicated KPIs and the consolidated multi-version backlog.\nIdentify and manage risks, opportunities and schedule deviations; request root-cause analyses and drive appropriate corrective actions.\nEnsure engineering deliverables and proposed solutions meet customer needs and expected quality, including requirements, operational concepts and architecture choices.\nContinuous improvement and issue resolution\nPlan the deployment of new processes and engineering practices in line with project constraints and delivery priorities.\nFacilitate cross-team collaboration and continuous improvement; in coordination with Solution Management, lead targeted deep dives into critical topics when needed (e.g., engineering environment).\nCandidate profile\nMaster’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related university discipline.\nAt least 7 years of experience in Engineering Management, Technical/IT Project Management or Software Engineering Management.\nProven ability to lead technical teams in complex environments, engage stakeholders and develop collaborative ways of working.\nCustomer-oriented, persuasive communicator with sound judgment, including in uncertain situations.\nStrong commitment to continuous improvement, team development and engineering excellence.\nRequired competencies\nEngineering lifecycle management, delivery planning, scheduling and multi-version coordination.\nAbility to review and challenge engineering deliverables: customer needs, operational concept documents (OCD), requirements and architecture decisions.\nRisk and opportunity management, delivery KPIs, root-cause analysis and corrective-action follow-up.\nStakeholder influence, priority setting, decision-making and cross-functional collaboration.\nNice to have: Specific domain, product or project knowledge - to be defined by the hiring manager and Talent Acquisition.\nDevelopment opportunities\nOpportunities to grow across Thales domains, products, customers and locations, and to develop along either technical expertise or leadership career paths, including international opportunities.\nRole-specific scope, reporting line, location and domain requirements: to be confirmed by the hiring manager.\nAt 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.\nThales 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.\nIn Romania, we are advancing innovation through software engineering, research and development, delivering solutions in key markets in which Thales Group operates. 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