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  • Posted: May 5, 2026
    Deadline: Not specified
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  • Thales has been in South Africa for over 35 years and provides its customers with technologically advanced solutions for the aerospace, transportation, defence and security domains. Thales today employs 160 people in South Africa and is rated level 2 under the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) scheme. LOCAL COMMITMENT Thales’ commitment towards South...
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    Technical Consultant

    Main duties:

    • The TC will be in charge of technical interface for a telecommunication and also a relevant market business field of Gemalto for both devices and services such as SIM/USIM or eSE for M2M/IoT, Occasionally, TC shall be getting involved with not only a regional project but also a foreign or multinational projects. The role involves working as part of a team which provides support to customers in dedicated region for corporate products and solutions integration, pre-sales support, proposal, technical discussion, project management, lab/field-testing, production quality management, commercial delivery and after support. The main responsibilities are as follows:

    Customer communication

    • Establish a good relationship with customers and perform proactive communication through support.
    • Understand customer’s problems, limitations, and needs.
    • Technical Consulting and Pre-sales
    • Technical presentation and pre-sales support to customers.
    • Technical training, Q&A, and paid consulting to customers.
    • Product promoting based on corporate product portfolio and industry trends.
    • Coordination of technical proposal and identification of the appropriate internal support for dedicated customers.
    • Proactive tracking of business by close alignment with internal teams and customers.
    • Acceptance, prioritization, and management of the correct internal processing of customer requirements.
    • Identification of Gemalto strategy by means of competitor analysis and, as a result, collection and development of leading against arguments.

    Project Management

    • Discuss and negotiate technical requirements according to both customer needs and Gemalto product capabilities.
    • Manage development projects as a local project manager to interact with R&D and production site to align with a planned schedule and available resources.
    • Inquiry to support team, R&D, and product marketing manager for customer Q&A.
    • Periodical project status reporting to customers and take care of change requests and issues.
    • Commercial product configuration and perform validation.
    • Manage industrialization process and deliver prototype samples and final commercial samples.

    Delivery and After Support

    • Ensure the delivery of commercial products and control product quality.
    • Trouble shooting (including inquiry, log analysis, tracing, and on-site testing) to identify the root cause of problems
    • Composing failure reports, identification of solution or workaround and if needed internal defect escalation in a structured manner.

    Internal Communication

    • Establish a good relationship with sales, marketing, and R&D.
    • Proper reporting to a manager.
    • Understand internal process and implement without delay.
    • Related Technology
    • Telecommunication (SIM or mobile phone device)
    • Security
    • M2M (industrial and automotive devices)
    • Secure IC product features and manufacturing.

    Work Experience

    • Shall have an experience of external customer communication. (meeting, phone call and email)
    • Shall have a Fluent English communication skill in verbal and in written. (meeting, phone call and email)
    • Shall have 5+ years of work experience in IT industry.
    • Shall have 5+ years of work experience of technical support position.
    • Work experience in mobile phone technology and business is a plus.
    • Work experience in payment technology and business is a plus.
    • Work experience in security technology and business is a plus.
    • Work experience in M2M/IoT related technology and business is a plus.
    • Work experience in a semiconductor company is a plus.

    Skills

    • Highly self-motivated to challenge learning new technology.
    • Skill of team leading and project management are plus.
    • Skill in verification and validation of software/hardware including approvals testing and inter-operability testing.

    Personal Qualities

    • Shall have customer-oriented mind set, without losing the view of corporate perspective.
    • Shall be fast learner, without being afraid to build up knowledge in new areas.
    • Shall have an ability to work independently and successfully complete assignments.
    • Shall be flexible in assuming tasks and short-term reprioritization.
    • Shall be a team player with the ability to communicate and act both within the group and across organizational borders.
    • Shall have an ability to work in multicultural/multinational environment.
    • Shall have goal and solution-oriented project management skills with perseverance.

    Education Requirements

    • Bachelor's in computer engineering or computer science or electrical engineering or information technology major is a plus.

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    Technical Consulting Trainee (EE)

    Main Responsibilities
    Technical Consultant

    • Technical Support for TC
    • Acquire knowledge on DIS/BPS internal tools and processes
    • Deal with internal teams (CS, OE, NPI)
    • Acquire a good understanding and technical knowledge of the customer card-related solutions.
    • Understand DIS technical organization

    Customer intimacy

    • Become the main interface for technical topics between the customer and DIS/BPS.
    • Understand the technical organization at the customer and advice DIS/BPS on how and where to promote the products and solutions.
    • Differentiate between PPER and FPER projects and impacts on customer

    Pre-Sales

    • Proactively act to understand customer technical needs and identify potential card-based Solutions in relation with the DIS/BPS Product Roadmap.
    • Write the preliminary requirements specification for dedicated customer project.
    • Responsible for the technical answers and effort & cost quotes for technical tasks to RFI and RFQ.
    • Lobby and create customer awareness for Gemalto products and services.

    Project Management

    • Customer follow-up on dedicated projects assigned by TC senior
    • Under supervision of TC, involve other teams of DIS/BPS (ie. EMV Consulting team, Perso Teams) on the project definition and planning whenever needed to fulfill the customers’ requirements and coordinate with these teams during implementation (project phase).
    • Leading and Coordinating Project given by TC:

    Organize internal Project Meetings

    • Manage, coordinate, motivate and inform all relevant parts of the organization
    • Write a Project Management Plan if required and agreed during Kick-Off
    • Ensure writing and validate the Project Test Plans and Test Results
    • Be responsible for Bug Reporting and Correction
    • Ensure consistent and on time the issuance of detailed Specifications
    • Understand and manage the project risks and impacts
    • Dispatch internal project Reporting
    • Ensure Project follow-up
    • Responsible for Escalation on major conflicts

    Implementation

    • Creation of technical Specifications, esp. detailed personalization Specifications for the Electrical and Graphical (Pre-)Personalization of Cards, as well as Data Processing Specifications and Electrical Profiles
    • Creation of Validation Elements in the scope of the Projects (eg. Test cards)

    REPORTING

    • To the sub-regional TC Manager

    QUALIFICATIONS
    Education

    • Master’s degree in computer science or engineering.

    Skills

    • English Fluent
    • Good teaming
    • Good oral and written communication and reporting skills
    • Strong Technical Background in fields like: EMV, banking world, Smartcards, PKI

    Experience

    • Student or fresh-out.
    • Project Management Experience

    Personal abilities

    • Customer and business oriented
    • Good creative intelligence (design, conceptualization)
    • Be tenacious in the approach to solve problems
    • Organized, rigorous and autonomous

    Method of Application

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