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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.Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.
Are you looking for a role where no two days are the same? Would you like to build a stack of transferable skills that could take your career anywhere in the business? Looking for your next step up from Service desk? Then keep reading…
Role Description
This opportunity has emerged for an Application Packager to join our Infrastructure Chapter Operations team. In this role you will develop new application requests for our live estate, manage incident management and resolution for our internal users and liaise with your wider team to find the best solutions for our users. Through agile working practices, you will be working closely with infrastructure and security and network specialists to design solutions that meet business requirements. You will take responsibility for lifecycle upgrades/changes of applications, including the design and introduction of service improvements to deliver continuous improvement to the business and users. You will play a key role in future application packaging & development, introducing new applications to the estate and further transformation of applications as the technology platform evolves.
Who You Are
You’ll be comfortable working in a development, support, delivery, maintenance type role within the Applications Domain. You should be a good communicator and collaborator with a resolution mind-set, delivering the best service to our customers. Alongside this, the following skills with support your success in this role:
- Experience working in the IT industry within a complex organisation.
- Broad IT Knowledge such as; applications, presentation services, storage, networks, IT infrastructure, service level agreements and Asset management.
- Demonstrable planning and task management skills.
- Customer facing or customer management experience.
- Knowledge of development languages: ASP.NET, MVC, VB, C#, PHP, Java.
- Excellent Word, Excel, VISIO, PowerPoint skills, Office technologies.
- Knowledge of Powershell, App Volumes and windows MSI and MSIX packaging
- Understanding of; Service Oriented Architecture, Relational Database Architectures, Multi-tier Application Architectures.
- Excellent discovery skills for software installation / compatibility / removal.
- Strong documentation skills with a good attention to detail.
Additional Security Information
Due to the sensitive nature of much of the work, all applicants must be eligible for UK MoD Security Clearance (SC level minimum).
What We Offer
What this role can offer
- Genuine flexibility with hybrid working on offer.
- Chance to learn and upskill in a team with established paths for career progression.
- Day to day variety, building technical and people skills in tandem.
Competitive salaries and enhanced benefits packages, but also access to a suite of training and learning opportunities to build on your knowledge, skills and potential for your future career enhancement.
Flexibility
Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.
If you are interested in this role, we would encourage you to have informal chat with the Talent Acquisition Partner.
Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.
In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.
At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.
Our Values
Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.
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