F126 System Architect

Our high-tech systems are used world-wide by selected partners to create a world we can all trust. We believe every person on this earth has the right to be safe. Our software is the heart of the systems used in critical situations where lives are at stake.

With 80.000 talents working in 68 countries, Thales is one of the biggest high-tech employers in the field of safety and security. In the Netherlands, where 2000 employees are based, we are located in four cities: Huizen, Delft, Eindhoven and Hengelo (HQ). Together with an extensive ecosystem of knowledge partners, customers and suppliers, we work on radars for naval vessels, cyber security solutions, transportation systems, communication equipment for land forces, cryogenic cooling solutions and research & development for radar tech (in collaboration with TU Delft).

Thales Netherlands is currently working on the largest project in the history of the Thales group: the F126 project. F126 is the first major shipbuilding project of the German Navy in the last 20 years and at the same time its largest ship building program ever. Based on the increasing operational needs, the German Navy plans to build six new multi role combat ships.

The Thales part of the project is by volume the biggest project in the history of the Thales Netherlands and Thales Germany Naval organizations. To realize this, we are expanding and strengthening our solution engineering capacity with a System architect.

ABOUT THE JOB

System engineering can be seen as the ‘steering wheel’ in Thales Naval, expertly guiding our engineering and test teams to develop cutting-edge solutions for our customers. Our system architects are the maestros behind the scenes, orchestrating system architectures that allow for seamless future extensions and improvements.

As a System Architect you will work together with the system engineers in your team and also with multidisciplinary and self-organizing Agile/Scrum teams. You are a key communicator, who bridges the gap between customers representatives and their requirements, architects of other systems and the development teams.

You will be responsible to:

• Understand and analyze the customer needs
• Find the best solution and support the architecture definition to meet the customer requirements
• Align solutions of different systems across the F126 project
• Define components with allocated functionality in our modular architecture
• Bring state of the art expertise for your field of expertise, specialty or domain
• Depending on the aspect acquire deep understanding of a specific domain (Gun Fire Control, Missile Fire Control, complex scheduling strategies, simulations or the combat management system) and subsystems that are integrated
• Organize stakeholder meetings to align and decide
• Mentor of system engineers or junior system architects

Thales offers careers, not just jobs. You will have the opportunity to develop towards principal design authority, senior expert in your area of expertise or completely different disciplines.

Join us at Thales and become the vital link that drives us forward, ensuring brighter futures and safer societies through top-tier communication and innovative solutions. Let’s make great things happen together!

About you

We are in search for a colleague who:

• Is a good communicator: is a great listener, looking for facts, is clear in his/her expectations, is great in asking open questions, dares to adjust his/her opinion, is able to align people and not afraid to speak up.
• Is passionate about technology;
• Has drive, is result-oriented and creative;
• Thrives in a collaborative environment;
• Always learns, both hard skills and also human skills;
• Wants to contribute to a safe and secure society;
• Is graduated at Bachelor or Master level in the area of software engineering, information/computer science, physics, mathematics, electrical engineering or similar;
• Has several years of system engineering experience;
• Has preferably Dutch nationality.

What's in it for you

• Become part of a great team in a high tech, innovative international organization
• (International) opportunities for growth in tech-, management- and commercial roles
• Attention for personal development and own initiative
• A nice workplace in a modern building, where we value a good work-life balance and flexibility
• 40 leave days per year, travel expenses and a flexible benefits à la carte package with options like purchase/sale of leave hours, internet costs, bicycle plan, company fitness, trade union contribution or relocation costs