Senior Land Systems Solution Architect – Defence

Thales Group; Tubeke; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Thales Belgium is hiring a Senior Solution Architect for Land Systems in Tubize. You will steer the technical policy, define architectures, and collaborate with engineering offices to ensure mission-ready defence capabilities.

You will lead architecture development, assess trade-offs, and support the lifecycle with cross- functional teams and customers to keep alignment with operational needs.

Qualifications

• A degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience as a System or Solution Architect in complex systems.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement across engineering and customer communities.
• Collaborative mindset with customers and end users to stay aligned with needs.
• Leadership to drive teams and convex problem-solving in demanding environments.
• Proactive, accountable, and solution-oriented attitude.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture vision for complex defence solutions, including context, interfaces and boundaries.
• Define, assess, and recommend candidate architectures meeting operational, technical, cost and schedule goals.
• Lead the development of the solution architecture, trade-offs between performance, maturity and interoperability.
• Support the solution development lifecycle with engineering coordination and co-engineering together with multidisciplinary teams.
• Ensure architecture supports mission-ready, secure and scalable defence capabilities.

Skills

Engineering degree

System architecture

Stakeholder engagement

Cross‑functional collaboration

Leadership

Influence & persuasion

Problem solving

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Thales Belgium is hiring a Senior Solution Architect for Land Systems in Tubize. You will steer the technical policy, define architectures, and collaborate with engineering offices to ensure mission-ready defence capabilities.

You will lead architecture development, assess trade-offs, and support the lifecycle with cross- functional teams and customers to keep alignment with operational needs.