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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Consultant Systems Architect - **Company:** TNO - **Location:** Rotterdam, Netherlands (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** €5,951.0 - €7,944.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Requirements Analysis, Systems Architecture, Model-Driven Development, Information Technology - **Published:** September 21, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.nationalevacaturebank.nl/vacature/c176004c-670c-4f88-9acd-039e6fdffab1/senior-consultant-systems-architect ## About the Role + You have 15+ years of experience in systems architecture, systems engineering, product development, technical leadership, or related roles, preferably in high-tech environments. + You hold a master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field. + You are a goal-oriented and self-driven professional who is energized by solving complex system-level challenges and delivering high-quality results. + You possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling you to engage effectively with technical experts, architects, management teams, and executive stakeholders. You are fluent in Dutch and English. + You have proven experience in multidisciplinary development environments and are capable of managing complex stakeholder relationships across organizational boundaries. + You are passionate about advancing systems architecting and systems engineering practices and helping organizations improve their engineering capabilities. + You have extensive experience with systems architecting and systems engineering methodologies, processes, frameworks, and associated competencies. + You are skilled in understanding stakeholder needs and translating them into system architectures, requirements structures, and solution concepts across multiple abstraction levels. + You have experience applying Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and other model-driven approaches to support system development, decision-making, and organizational improvement. + You have strong analytical and conceptual thinking skills and are capable of making and defending architectural trade-offs. + You enjoy coaching, mentoring, and facilitating multidisciplinary teams and helping organizations successfully adopt engineering best practices. + You are motivated by applying scientific insights and emerging technologies to industrial challenges and creating lasting impact through architectural excellence. What you'll get in return ## Description o Circular and industrial construction o Go to Mobility and logistics + o Efficient drug development o Medical devices o Work health + o # Accurate geo-location with nanosatellites # PERSEUS wind turbine radar interference assessment tool # Military use of space o Integrated combat capabilities + o Safe and efficient mobility o Semicon and quantum + o # Terms and conditions of employment o # Talent development programme + o Projects on commission Geselecteerde taal: EN 1. Senior Consultant Systems Architect Werken op afstand: Hybrid Uren per week: 32-40 hours/week Senior Consultant Systems Architect About this position The Senior Consultant Systems Architect is a recognized expert in systems architecting and systems engineering who combines deep technical expertise with a strong affinity for research, innovation, and industrial impact. In this role, you contribute to the creation, validation, and deployment of next-generation systems engineering and architecting methodologies, helping organizations engineer increasingly complex systems in a more effective and predictable manner. Working at the intersection of research and industrial practice, you collaborate with researchers, architects, engineers, and industry partners to transform scientific knowledge into practical engineering approaches, methods, and tools. Through innovation and collaboration projects at TNO-ESI, you contribute to strengthening the engineering capabilities of organizations in the High-Tech Equipment, Energy, Mission Critical Infrastructure, and Defense sectors while advancing the competitiveness of Dutch industry and addressing important societal challenges. What will be your role? At TNO-ESI, we bridge the gap between research and industrial practice. Our mission is to develop and embed advanced systems engineering methodologies, tools, and expertise in industry, enabling organizations to engineer increasingly complex systems more effectively. By scaling the adoption of these innovations, TNO-ESI contributes to the competitiveness of Dutch industry and helps address major societal challenges such as the energy transition, digitalization, and sustainable high-tech innovation. As a Senior Consultant Systems Architect, you will contribute to advancing the state of practice in systems engineering and architecting by connecting industrial challenges with scientific research. Working closely with industrial partners, researchers, architects, and engineers, you will help identify emerging complexity challenges, evaluate and validate new methodologies, and support their adoption in industrial environments. Through this work, you will contribute to both the relevance of TNO-ESI's research portfolio and the engineering effectiveness of organizations operating in complex domains. Your responsibilities include: + Helping organizations tackle complex system development challenges by analyzing technical and organizational bottlenecks and identifying practical, scalable solutions using systems engineering and architecting principles. + Advising industrial partners on systems engineering, systems architecting, MBSE, digital engineering, and related methodologies, helping them improve the effectiveness, predictability, and quality of their product and system development processes. + Working closely with stakeholders across multiple disciplines and organizational levels to align business objectives, engineering decisions, system requirements, and operational constraints. + Supporting the adoption and deployment of advanced systems engineering and architecting methodologies, ensuring these approaches create sustainable impact within client organizations. + Leading and facilitating architecture studies, assessments, workshops, and improvement initiatives that address complex engineering and system design challenges. + Translating scientific insights, emerging technologies, and research results into industrially applicable methods, practices, and solutions, bridging the gap between research and industrial adoption. + Strengthening the engineering capabilities of client organizations through coaching, mentoring, training, and hands-on guidance for architects, systems engineers, and technical leaders. + Leading consultancy and innovation projects in collaboration with industrial partners, researchers, and multidisciplinary teams, ensuring that project outcomes result in measurable and lasting impact. + Contributing to the development, validation, and continuous improvement of systems engineering and architecting methodologies within TNO-ESI, based on both research outcomes and industrial experience. + Identifying emerging challenges and innovation opportunities in industry and translating them into new research topics, collaborative programs, and innovation initiatives that strengthen TNO-ESI's impact and relevance. 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