
Senior Consultant Systems Architect
TNO
Senior Consultant Systems Architect
TNO-ESI is seeking a Senior Consultant Systems Architect to bridge research and industrial practice in systems engineering and architecting. The role involves advising industrial partners, leading architecture studies, and advancing methodologies like MBSE. Requires 15+ years of experience, a master's degree, and fluency in Dutch and English.
Senior Consultant Systems Architect
TNO-ESI is seeking a Senior Consultant Systems Architect to bridge research and industrial practice in systems engineering and architecting. The role involves advising industrial partners, leading architecture studies, and advancing methodologies like MBSE. Requires 15+ years of experience, a master's degree, and fluency in Dutch and English.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Key Responsibilities
- Helping organizations tackle complex system development challenges by analyzing technical and organizational bottlenecks and identifying practical, scalable solutions using systems engineering and architecting principles.
- Advising industrial partners on systems engineering, systems architecting, MBSE, digital engineering, and related methodologies, helping them improve the effectiveness, predictability, and quality of their product and system development processes.
- Working closely with stakeholders across multiple disciplines and organizational levels to align business objectives, engineering decisions, system requirements, and operational constraints.
- Supporting the adoption and deployment of advanced systems engineering and architecting methodologies, ensuring these approaches create sustainable impact within client organizations.
- Leading and facilitating architecture studies, assessments, workshops, and improvement initiatives that address complex engineering and system design challenges.
- Translating scientific insights, emerging technologies, and research results into industrially applicable methods, practices, and solutions, bridging the gap between research and industrial adoption.
- Strengthening the engineering capabilities of client organizations through coaching, mentoring, training, and hands-on guidance for architects, systems engineers, and technical leaders.
- Leading consultancy and innovation projects in collaboration with industrial partners, researchers, and multidisciplinary teams, ensuring that project outcomes result in measurable and lasting impact.
- Contributing to the development, validation, and continuous improvement of systems engineering and architecting methodologies within TNO-ESI, based on both research outcomes and industrial experience.
- Identifying emerging challenges and innovation opportunities in industry and translating them into new research topics, collaborative programs, and innovation initiatives that strengthen TNO-ESI's impact and relevance.