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Thales is one of Europes largest defence suppliers, with an annual turnover in excess of 10 billion for the whole Group across our six core business areas of Aerospace, Air Systems, Land and Joint Systems, Naval, Security and Services. Its our 60,000 strong worldwide workforce that drives this success, and we strive to ensure that each and every one reaches their full potential.We are currently looking for an experienced systems architect to develop architectures for complex networked military systems to enable the company to deliver Network Enabled Capability (NEC) solutions to the MoDs. You will be working on Project scales ranging from network demonstrators and research projects from GBP 150K to GBP 750K through to large multi-company applied research ventures of ~GBP 50M over 3 years to the development of complex networked architectures >GBP 100M EW/ESM systems. You will need; Expertise in networked systems TCP/IP protocol stack and associated protocols SNMP, SMTP, UDP and routing protocols such as OSPF and/or expertise in HTML, UML, XML, CORBA and middleware for distributed processing OR alternatively in military networks Combat Systems or tactical radio networking modern data links e.g. Link 16. Proven expertise in the design of complex system architectures containing a significant communications /networking element, preferably in a Defence environment |