Workplace Enterprise Architect m/f

Location: Vélizy-Villacoublay, France

Let's build a future of trust together Thales is a world leader in high technologies specializing in three business 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 4.5 billion euros per year in Research & Development, particularly in key innovation areas such as AI, cybersecurity, quantum, cloud technologies, and 6G. Thales has nearly 85,000 employees in 65 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 paths, academies, and internal communities

• An inclusive, caring environment that respects employee work-life balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life Join us at the Vélizy campus, which hosts a great diversity of Thales activities: aero, defense, civil,... Located west of Paris, this site offers a working environment equipped with the latest technological innovations and provides services that allow for a balance between professional and personal life.

The Group IT department you will join has recently reorganized to integrate Business entities and IST/IT into a shared governance mode. You will join the group enterprise architecture practice and will work with French and international Business Units, as well as in collaboration with the teams in charge of group solutions. By joining us, your main missions will be:

• Participate in and assist with decisions regarding the definition of the function's multi-year budget.
• Ensure end-to-end overall consistency for the function, as well as in connection with the solutions and services provided by other business and IT functions.

• In transformation project/program mode: define the global strategy of the solution(s) aligned with business expectations.
• Guide and then validate architecture choices during their update cycle.

• Collaborate with Solution Architects when a project is launched by providing your support in case of impact on the architecture.
• Unify and lead expert teams and teams in charge of group solutions regarding cross-functional topics.

• Present the architecture strategy to all stakeholders and ensure their support.

Your Profile With an engineering or university background, specializing in information systems, you have at least 5 years of proven experience in architecture work (Business, Solutions, and/or Infrastructure).

You have the following skills:

• Implementation of solutions in a multi-organizational framework such as a PLM, ERP, project management tool... would be highly appreciated;
• Creation of a data architecture and/or implementation of migration projects to a cloud and/or in service-oriented architecture

• Definition of an architecture and master plans.
• Modeling using a standard (UML, BPMN, and Archimate).

• Data modeling and analysis and/or architecture modeling such as Archimate
• Ability to defend architecture files before the IT management.

English is essential for this position.

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