Join us on the Vélizy campus, which hosts a wide variety of Thales activities. As an Enterprise Architect, you will be responsible for participating in the definition of the multi-year budget, ensuring the overall consistency of business and IT solutions, defining architecture targets and the global strategy for your domain, and guiding architecture choices throughout their lifecycle. You will also collaborate with Solution Architects and animate expert teams. This role requires at least 5 years of experience in enterprise architecture, with strong skills in data architecture, cloud migration, and architecture modeling.

Must Have

• Participate in defining the multi-year budget for the function
• Ensure overall consistency of business and IT solutions
• Define architecture targets and global strategy for your domain
• Define the global strategy for solutions in project or transformation programs
• Guide and validate architecture choices throughout their lifecycle
• Collaborate with Solution Architects and provide support in case of impact on the architecture
• Federate and animate expert teams and group solution teams on cross-functional topics
• Present architecture strategy to stakeholders and ensure their support
• At least 5 years of experience in enterprise architecture
• Skills in data architecture creation and/or migration projects to a cloud or service-oriented architecture
• Experience in defining architectures and master plans
• Proficiency in architecture modeling (UML, BPMN, Archimate) on different layers (Business, Data, Applications, Infrastructure)
• Experience in data modeling and analysis
• Ability to defend architecture proposals to IT management
• Knowledge of market architecture frameworks (TOGAF, IT4IT, Archimate)
• Leadership
• Communication skills
• Rigor
• Collaborative spirit

Perks & Benefits

• Success driven by technological excellence, experience, and shared ambition
• Attractive compensation package
• Continuous skill development: training courses, academies, and internal communities
• Inclusive, benevolent environment respecting employee balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment
• Work environment equipped with the latest technological innovations
• Services to reconcile professional and personal life

Let's build a future of trust together

Thales is a global high-tech leader specializing in three sectors: Defense & Security, Aeronautics & Space, and Cyber & Digital. It develops products and solutions that contribute to a safer, more environmentally friendly, and more inclusive world. The Group invests nearly 4 billion euros per year in Research & Development, particularly in key innovation areas such as AI, cybersecurity, quantum, cloud technologies, and 6G. Thales has nearly 81,000 employees in 68 countries.

Our commitments, your benefits

• Success driven by our technological excellence, your experience, and our shared ambition
• An attractive compensation package
• Continuous skill development: training courses, academies, and internal communities
• An inclusive, benevolent environment respecting employee balance
• A recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

Join us on the Vélizy campus, which hosts a wide variety of Thales activities (aero, defense, civil, etc.). West of Paris, this site offers a work environment equipped with the latest technological innovations and provides services to reconcile professional and personal life.

Your missions:

As an Enterprise Architect, you will be responsible for:

• Participating in the definition of the multi-year budget for the function
• Ensuring the overall consistency of business and IT solutions
• Defining architecture targets and the global strategy for your domain
• Defining the global strategy for solutions in project or transformation programs
• Guiding and validating architecture choices throughout their lifecycle
• Collaborating with Solution Architects and providing your support in case of impact on the architecture
• Federating and animating expert teams and those responsible for group solutions on cross-functional topics
• Presenting the architecture strategy to stakeholders and ensuring their support

Your profile:

• Is your priority to manage and structure enterprise architecture to guarantee consistency and performance?
• Do you have the ambition to become a strategic and referent player for the IT management?
• Do you want to work on multi-organizational and innovative projects?

You have an engineering or university degree in information systems and confirmed experience of at least 5 years in enterprise architecture, with skills in:

• Data architecture creation and/or migration projects to a cloud or service-oriented architecture
• Definition of architectures and master plans
• Architecture modeling (UML, BPMN, Archimate) on different layers (Business, Data, Applications, Infrastructure)
• Data modeling and analysis
• Defending architecture proposals to IT management
• Knowledge of market architecture frameworks (TOGAF, IT4IT, Archimate)

Are leadership, communication skills, rigor, and a collaborative spirit recognized as your strengths?

Then this position is for you!

Thales, a Handi-Engaged company, recognizes all talents. Diversity is our best asset. Apply and join us!