Senior System Architect - C-UAS (Technical Directorate)

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

Job summary

Thales Belgium is seeking a Senior Solution Architect Counter UAS in Tubize, offering hybrid work in a full-time role. You will steer architecture policy, validate designs, and collaborate across engineering offices to meet stakeholder expectations while balancing technical and cost constraints.

The candidate should have a Master’s in Engineering or CS and strong experience in systems architecture, with knowledge of military systems, NATO interoperability, and simulation tools.

Qualifications

• Master of Engineering or Computer Science; substantial architecture and systems engineering experience.
• Knowledge of the military domain and operational analysis.
• Familiar with architecture frameworks and interoperability standards.
• Experience with co-engineering approaches and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Define and steer the architecture vision across stakeholders and trade-offs between technical solutions, costs, risks and schedule.
• Identify boundary context and document artefacts; validate design decisions.
• Lead the solution development cycle and governance of critical requirements and KPIs.
• Collaborate with specialists in Lean Thinking and Obeya to implement co-engineering practices.

Skills

System architecture

Engineering of systems

Military domain knowledge

Arcadia

NAF

NATO interoperability

Sensors and weapons systems

Co-engineering

Education

Master of Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Arcadia

NAF

Job description

Senior System Architect - C-UAS (Technical Directorate)### Senior System Architect - C-UAS (Technical Directorate)Apply: Hybrid: Tubize: Full time: Posted Today: R0339756Location: Tubize, BelgiumThales in Belgium is part of an internationally leading technology group in the defence and security, aerospace as well as digital identity and security markets. In a world characterised by uncertainties, we ensure that our customers, partners and employees can pursue new paths with confidence. For a future we can all trust. Say HI\\* – to your career as **Senior Solution Architect Counter UAS**Location: Tubize #LI-HYBRIDIn **Tubize**, you will join more than 350 colleagues recognized by domestic and international partners for expertise on products such as **Radio Frequency** (RF) Products, **C4ISR**, **Crypto Global** **Solution**, **MACS** (Aeronautical Intercom) and many others. Today the Group employs **more than 1,400 people across nine sites** in Belgium. Discover all Thales activities in Belgium here.**Your role:**As part of the Technical Directorate of Thales Belgium, you will be responsible for steering the technical policy and solutions matters, in strong cooperation with other engineering offices. You will provide senior expertise to support architecture definition, challenge engineering approaches and validate design decisions. **Your mission:*** Contribute to establish architecture vision, in particular identify stakeholders’ concerns, system’s boundary and context* Define, evaluate and recommend candidate architectures to meet stakeholder expectations* Establish the solution architecture by making trade-offs between stakeholder expectations, technical and technological solutions and costs, product policy, risks and schedule, document the associated artefacts and approve the resulting lower-level specifications* Assist in the solution development cycle and in defining the co-engineering approach* Manage, throughout the project lifecycle, the key and critical requirements and in particular those related to KPIs and KPPs, the technical negotiation between the different stakeholders and the architectural changes. **What we are looking for:*** You graduated with a Master of Engineering or Computer Science or in University, and you have significant experience in architecture and engineering of systems.* You have a knowledge of the military domain, including military operational analysis.* You are familiar with concept, design, experimentation and simulation tools, as well as architecture frameworks (such as Arcadia or NAF).* You have basic knowledge of NATO interoperability standards* You have basic knowledge of the functions and performance of sensors such as radars, passive electromagnetic sensors, or optronic cameras.* You have basic knowledge of the functions and performance of weapon systems such as missile launchers.* You have basic knowledge of military command and control systems* You are able to work in co-engineering in particular with specialists (Lean Thinking, Obeya...)Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. The Group is investing in digital and “deep tech” innovations – Big Data, artificial intelligence, connectivity, cybersecurity and quantum technology – to build a future we can all trust. For more than 20 years, Thales has pursued a robust corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy based on the highest international standards. The principles behind this policy are now captured in the company’s purpose of “**building a future we can all trust**”, which was adopted in 2020. **Say HI\\* – Your journey to us**At times of change our international teams are ready to meet the complexity of today with the industry-leading technologies of tomorrow. Will you be part of it? We are looking forward to your online application. Great journeys start here, apply now! **Camilla Christovam** Talent Acquisition Partner #LI-CC1