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About us
Get on board with Damen Naval, along with more than 1,200 professionals based in The Netherlands, Romania, and Germany. We are the naval division of the family-owned Damen Shipyards Group which employs 12,000 professionals globally. Damen Naval designs and builds advanced naval vessels for customers all over the world. With a passion for technological innovation and sustainable solutions, we continue to push the boundaries in naval shipbuilding. You can be part of our team! Are you ready for duty?
The role
As the Solution Architect within Damen Naval its IT Staff Department, you are responsible for delivering IT solutions in various IT and business projects. You develop standard solutions, create designs, guide IT projects and work with our IT engineers to help them build and improve solutions. You work in a complex environment in cooperation with our security department to protect our sensitive data used to design and develop Naval solutions.
Key accountabilities
As the Solution Architect, your key responsibilities will include:
- You consult on and design new and current IT solutions.
- You create standard reusable building blocks and low level designs.
- You guide project teams in making the right technological decisions.
- Cooperate with the Cyber Security team and security architects to make sure our technical solutions are secure and compliant
- Cooperate with the Enterprise architects to make sure our solutions are in line with the high level design, (IT) strategy and architecture vision.
Skills & experience
To excel as a Solution Architect, you should possess the following qualifications and qualities:
- 5+ years’ experience working on IT Architecture, preferably in the context of a staff department within a multinational organization.
- Solid experience in translating of requirements into (technical) tooling and solutions.
- working with various architecture tools and experience in modelling and standardizing architecture is a plus.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Experienced dealing with compliance and risk topics are considered a plus.
Excellent references antecedents as a pre-employment security screening is standard part of the recruitment procedure.
- Permanent EU citizenship and passport are both required. Candidates with EU (work) visa or with both an EU and non-EU nationality and/or passport are not eligible in accordance with the requirements imposed by the military nature of our projects.
What we offer
At Damen Naval, we highly value our employees, and we will support your professional and personal development. We also provide our employees with:
A competitive salary and 8% holiday pay.
27 holidays and 13 ADV days.
Travel allowance of 23 cents per kilometre.
PME-pension arrangement with an employer contribution of 60%.
Profit sharing based on company results.
Working from home policy and other benefits including a bicycle plan and company fitness.
Other
Are you interested in this position, please submit your application including your CV and cover letter, along with an indication of:
- Your (preferred) monthly gross salary based on fulltime work.
- Availability (fulltime / part-time / number of hours).
- Notice period / possible starting date.
For more information about this vacancy or Damen Naval, please visit the Damen Naval website, the Damen Naval Career website or contact the Corporate Recruitment department via +31 118 485 000.
Please note that due to the military nature of our projects, only candidates who have permanent EU nationality can be considered for vacancies at Damen Naval. Unfortunately, we are not allowed to process candidates who (also) have a non-EU passport or nationality.
A pre-employment and security screening and investigation form part of the recruitment process.
Acquisition and introduction of candidates without a formal request is not appreciated and they will not be considered.
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