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# Senior System Architect - C-UAS (Technical Directorate)

- **Company:** Thales Group
- **Location:** Tubeke, Belgium
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Interoperability, Systems Architecture, Information Technology
- **Published:** October 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://thales.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/Tubize/System-Architect---C-UAS--Technical-Directorate-_R0339756

## About the Role

* 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...)

## Description

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.