Senior System Architect for Deployable Defence ICT

WLG; Eigenbrakel; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

WLG in Belgium seeks a senior solution engineer to own system-level architecture for deployable ICT/defence systems. You will translate requirements into integrated designs and coordinate networking, SATCOM, compute, cloud, and security specialists to deliver coherent solutions.

You will act as the technical owner for in-service systems, manage changes, obsolescence, and roadmaps while guiding stakeholders to decisive outcomes with strong English technical communication.

Qualifications

• Degree in a technical field and ~10 years of engineering experience on complex ICT/defence systems.
• Proven work as technical lead, lead systems engineer or solution architect.
• Strong requirements engineering, interface control, traceability and system integration, verification and acceptance.
• Broad technical range across networking, infrastructure, virtualization, security, cloud, automation and communications.
• Experience with systems after they go live: configuration and change management, obsolescence and technical debt.
• Professional English, including writing and reviewing complex technical documents.

Responsibilities

• Translating operational and project requirements into implementable solutions and a clear system architecture.
• Applying model-based systems engineering, reusing approved building blocks and flagging gaps where they fall short.
• Running trade-off analyses across performance, interoperability, security, resilience, cost and schedule.
• Acting as product owner for systems already in service: assessing changes, obsolescence and technology refresh against the whole system, and keeping its roadmap current.
• Integrating contributions from networking, SATCOM and radio, compute and cloud, storage, cybersecurity and identity specialists into one coherent design.
• Being the technical focal point for projects and driving conflicting requirements to a decision.

Skills

Technical leadership

System integration

Requirements engineering

English language

Education

Degree in systems, telecommunications, computer or electronic engineering or computer science

Tools

MBSE (model-based systems engineering)

Job description

WLG in Belgium seeks a senior solution engineer to own system-level architecture for deployable ICT/defence systems. You will translate requirements into integrated designs and coordinate networking, SATCOM, compute, cloud, and security specialists to deliver coherent solutions.

You will act as the technical owner for in-service systems, manage changes, obsolescence, and roadmaps while guiding stakeholders to decisive outcomes with strong English technical communication.