Solution Architect F/H

Join the Thales Vélizy campus, a hub for diverse Thales activities. As part of the Engineering & Digital Directorate's Architecture discipline, you will contribute to transforming the team by improving the work environment, processes, and architectural practices. You will work closely with the Chief Product Owner on applications for 30,000 engineers, focusing on collaboration, sharing, and continuous improvement in an innovative and motivating environment.

Must Have

• Instruct architecture topics aligned with company strategy and products
• Translate business strategy into architectural solutions
• Evaluate architecture scenarios with stakeholders
• Monitor solution implementation
• Formalize architecture documentation and identify risks
• Contribute expertise to governance bodies and engineering team meetings
• Experience in defining architectural orientations and implementation strategies
• Experience with modeling methods like TOGAF and Archimate
• Experience in projects applying DevSecOps and Agile approaches
• Experience in strategic and business architectures
• Experience in system operation and support in production
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Recognized leadership
• Customer and user-centric approach

Good to Have

• Curious
• Rigorous
• Methodical
• Committed to continuous improvement
• Appreciates challenges
• Capable of making decisions in uncertain and complex contexts

Perks & Benefits

• Success driven by technological excellence, experience, and shared ambition
• Attractive compensation package
• Continuous skill development: training programs, internal academies and communities
• Inclusive, benevolent environment respecting employee balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

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 programs, internal academies, and communities
• An inclusive, benevolent environment that respects employee balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

Join us on the Vélizy campus, which hosts a wide variety of Thales activities: aerospace, defense, civil, etc. West of Paris, this site offers a work environment equipped with the latest technological innovations and provides services that allow for balancing professional and personal life.

Within the Engineering & Digital Directorate's Competence Center, and more specifically the Architecture discipline teams, you will contribute to the transformation dynamic of this passionate team to improve our work environment, our processes, and our architectural tooling practices with a strong logic of collaboration, sharing, and continuous improvement in an ever more learning, innovative, and motivating environment.

As a member of a team dedicated to applications for 30,000 engineers, you will work in close collaboration with the Chief Product Owner.

Your missions will include:

• Investigating architectural topics in line with the company's strategy and products, as well as translating business strategy into architectural solutions.
• Evaluating architectural scenarios with stakeholders and monitoring the implementation of solutions.
• Formalizing architectural documentation and identifying risks.
• Contributing your expertise to governance bodies and engineering team meetings.

Your profile

You have an Engineering degree (or equivalent Bac+5) and experience:

• In presenting architectural orientations and defining implementation strategies aligned with an organization's challenges
• In modeling methods such as TOGAF and Archimate
• In projects applying DevSecOps and Agile approaches
• In strategic and business architectures
• In operational and support issues for a system in production

You possess excellent analytical skills and master problem-solving?

Your leadership is recognized, and you are focused on the needs of customers and users?

Curious, rigorous, and methodical, you are committed to a continuous improvement approach?

You appreciate challenges and are capable of making decisions in uncertain and complex contexts?

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