Solution Architect - Business Applications & Integration

Location: Hengelo, Netherlands

Solution Architect - Business Applications & Integration

32 - 40 hours per week/ Hybrid/ Hengelo

Are you passionate about designing smart, scalable IT Solutions that connect business needs with technology? As a Solution Architect at Thales, you will play a key role in shaping our application and integration landscape. From modernizing business applications to enabling Industry 4.0 initiatives, you will translate complex challenges into future-proof architectures that drive our digital transformation.

About your future job
As a Solution Architect for the SID squad, you will be part of the IS/IT Business Applications domain. You help drive the digitalization, standardization and modernization of our organization. Your focus lies on integrations, Industry 4.0 solutions and designing robust, scalable application architectures, including shaping digital solutions on leading low‑code platforms such as Mendix and ServiceNow.

You are a leading force within the team: a sparring partner who provides direction, makes decision. You actively bring the team along in architectural choices, create clarity and ensure everyone understands why certain solutions are chosen. You work full‑time on Solution Architecture and act as a key link between the business, IT and our enterprise architecture, ensuring strong alignment, communication and collaboration across squads and stakeholders.

The SID squad operates at the centre of our digital landscape, connecting business needs, IT capabilities and architectural direction to ensure coherence and shared understanding across the organization.

Your contribution:

• Work closely with business stakeholders to understand their processes, challenges and needs
• Translate business questions into clear, future‑proof IS/IT solutions
• Design application, data and integration architectures using modelling techniques such as ArchiMate
• Drive Industry 4.0 initiatives by designing and implementing integrated solutions across smart mobility, IoT (including platforms such as Cumulocity), industrial networks and process automation, including the introduction of RPA (UiPath), ensuring these innovations strengthen and standardize our application landscape
• Collaborate with the Lead Engineers to shape the squad’s technical and architectural roadmap
• Collaborate with other architects and international Thales teams to exchange best practices and tooling
• Contribute to our ramp‑up by delivering solutions that help our users work more efficiently

We operate using a hybrid model, with a split of 60% office-based and 40% remote work. We offer flexible working hours and place a great deal of trust and freedom in how you organize your work week.

Why you'd be a good match

• You have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree
• You have experience with:
  • API architecture and integration patterns
  • Application design and solutioning
  • Integration technologies such as SOAP, REST and Kafka
  • Basic networking and security concepts
  • Modelling (e.g. ArchiMate)
• You are a strong communicator and sparring partner for both business and IT
• You work transparently, predictably and take ownership
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills in Dutch and English

What’s in it for you

• Become part of a close‑knit team within an innovative, international high‑tech organization
• Salary based on Pay Scale 60 in accordance with the Metalektro-HP collective labor agreement.
• 27 vacation days and 13 'ADV' days (reduced working hours) based on full-time employment; you can sell or purchase additional ADV days if desired.
• Holiday allowance (8%); a fixed year-end bonus (2%); a variable profit-sharing bonus and expense allowances for working from home.
• A mobility policy offering travel expense reimbursement and/or the use of an NS Business Card.
• Pension accrual through our own pension fund; Thales contributes 60%.
• The opportunity to personalize your employment conditions by exchanging certain salary components for other perks, such as gym memberships, a bicycle plan, union fees, etc.
• Eligibility for a group discount on health insurance through one of our partners.
• Ample opportunities for personal and professional growth within the organization—for example, in technical, commercial, or international areas.
• Valuable international collaboration with colleagues from 68 different countries worldwide.
• A pleasant workplace in a modern setting, with a focus on flexibility and a good work-life balance.

About Thales

In rapidly changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a place where talented people come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make tomorrow possible.

Our Thales Netherlands IS/IT team operates at the heart of Thales’ digital transformation. Positioned between IS/IT and the business, we support more than 3,000 colleagues across multiple Business Lines and functions. We also work closely with international IS/IT teams within the Thales Group. Our mission? Providing secure and reliable access to information in one click, while continuously improving and taking pride in what we achieve together. We embrace agile principles, learn from experimentation and strive for a modern, future‑proof IT organization.

Interested?

Ready to shape the future of our IT landscape and make a real impact on our digital transformation? We'd love to hear from you. Apply now and join our team at Thales!

Diversity Statement

We actively support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions. That means that equal opportunities, inclusion and an informal culture are integral to our success. It also means that your well-being and happiness matter to us! That’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, remote working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times.

Security Requirements

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in The Netherlands and employment and/or education history. This vacancy requires a security clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for security clearance please refer to the General Intelligence and Security Service.

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