Electronic Warfare System Architect
Thales Group
Overview
As an Electronic Warfare Systems Architect at Thales UK, you design and validate candidate architectures for EW solutions, balancing stakeholder needs with technical, cost, and schedule constraints. You work with cross-functional teams and customers to guide co-engineering and ensure robust, scalable designs. You influence both features and non-functional characteristics to meet evolving defence requirements. This role combines leadership, deep EW domain knowledge, and architecture governance to deliver mission-critical systems.
Pay / Benefits
- private healthcare
- relocation support
- annual bonus
- pension
- cycle to work scheme
- stocks and shares
Responsibilities
- Define and recommend candidate architectures aligned with standards, roadmaps, and business strategy
- Establish architecture through trade-offs between stakeholders, technical solutions, costs, risks, and schedule; document artefacts and approve lower-level specifications
- Assist in solution development cycle and co-engineering approach
- Manage lifecycle requirements, performance evaluation, interfaces, and technical negotiations among stakeholders
Key requirements
- Engineering or Scientific degree with significant architecture and systems engineering experience
- Leadership capabilities and initiative
- Strong communication and customer-facing skills
- Experience in Electronic Warfare domain concepts or RF systems (EW, CESM, Comms) and RF performance modelling/budgets
- Familiarity with co-engineering, Lean Thinking, and integration/verification processes
- Ability to contextualise projects across political, economic, social, technical, environmental, and legal dimensions
- leadership and people development
- collaborative mindset
- customer engagement
- Electronic Warfare domain concepts
- RF systems knowledge (EW, CESM, Comms)
- RF performance modelling/budgets
Reference: WJ-799_29807780