Solution Architect

The people we all rely on to make the world go round – they rely on Thales.  Thales rely on its employees to invent the future: right here, right now.

Present in Romania for over 40 years, Thales is expanding its presence in the country by growing its Digital capabilities and by developing a Group Engineering Competence Centre (ECC). Operating from Bucharest, Thales delivers solutions in a number of core businesses, from ground transportation, space and defence, to security and aeronautics.
Several professional opportunities have arisen. If you are looking for the solidity of a Global Group that is at the forefront of innovation, but with the agility of a human structure that tailors to the personal development of its employees and allows opportunities for evolution in an international environment, then this is the place for you!

Job summary:

The Engineering & Digital department defines, develops, and deploys processes, tools, and infrastructures to address the challenges faced by systems, software, and hardware engineers at Thales Group.

You will join our Engineering Competence Center Romania department, specifically the Architecture discipline teams. In this capacity, you will contribute to the transformation dynamic of this passionate team to improve our work environment, our processes, and architectural practices aligned strongly with collaboration, sharing, and continuous improvement in an increasingly learning, innovative, and motivating environment.

Operationally, within the "E2 Eng:io" Tribe, you will be part of the Red-Hawks squad, distributed between France and Romania, whom mission is to support (in Agile mode) system and software engineers in migrating their work environment and maintaining a suite of engineering tools and several hosting environments: OrchestraLab, AWS referred to as TPC (Thales Public Cloud), and Azure referred to as TDP (Thales Digital Platform).

Who are you?

Graduated with a Master’s degree or from an Engineering school, you have:

• A minimum of 7 years of successful experience as a Solution Architect
• Recognized skills to present architectural orientations and define implementation strategies in line with the challenges of an organization
• Proficiency in architectural practices, languages, and modeling methods such as TOGAF and Archimate
• In-depth expertise in functional, application, data, technical, information systems security architectures, service-oriented application architectures (SaaS), and cloud deployment architectures
• Strong knowledge in strategic and business architectures
• A good understanding of operational and support issues for a production system
• Knowledge in software engineering (processes, practices, tools)
• Experience in projects applying DevSecOps and Agile methodologies
• Ideally, you have a TOGAF, Archimate, or SAFe certification.

Moreover

• You have excellent analytical skills and master problem-solving methods.
• You have recognized leadership abilities.
• You are client and user-centered to understand operational needs.
• You are curious, meticulous, and methodical.
• You are committed to continuous improvement.
• You possess a spirit of sharing and collaborative work.
• You enjoy challenges and can make decisions in uncertain and complex contexts.
• You can deliver concise and convincing presentations to explain complex topics at all levels of the organization (technical, strategic, executive) and secure decisions.

What we can accomplish together

In coordination with the Chief Product Owner and his teams, you will be entrusted with the following missions:

• Address architectural topics while ensuring consistency with the corporate strategy and product policy.
• Translate business strategy into technical strategy and define application solutions in terms of business, functional, application, data, and technical architectures.
• Evaluate architectural scenarios in collaboration with all stakeholders and then support the operational implementation of the recommended solutions.
• Formalize architecture, choices, and decision documents.
• Identify and substantiate architectural risks.
• Contribute to governance bodies (Products, Architecture, etc.) and engineering team meetings by providing your expertise (peer reviews, backlog prioritization, etc.).

Mobility

• Travels to France - 1/month in the first 6 months

Languages

• English – mandatory
• French – would be a plus

YOUR CAREER AT THALES:

Future opportunities will allow you to discover other domains or sites. You will be able to evolve and grow your competences in different areas:

• Room and attention to personal development.
• Build your talents in another domain of Thales Group, discovering new products, new customers, new country or go to a more complex Solutiom
• Choose between a technical expertise or a leadership path.
• Build an international career within a leading Engineering Group.
• Work for different Thales domains & entities.

YOUR IMMEDIATE BENEFITS

• 24 holiday days a year
• Benefit Online
• A good work-life balance which includes flexible working hours
• A comprehensive compensation and benefit package including medical coverage & life insurance
• Hybrid Workplace
• goFLUENT & Udemy Subscription