Senior Operational Architect/Analyst (UCAV)

The role

The day-to-day

• Write and maintain the UCAV Concept of Operations (ConOps), so that every design decision traces back to a documented operational need
• Define the operational weapon system architecture and present the trade-offs between capability, cost and risk to engineering teams and customers
• Build and validate mission scenarios that reflect realistic European NATO operations, and keep them as the shared baseline for all operational analysis
• Oversee and evaluate operational analysis simulation studies, applying operations research methods, and report findings that shape requirements and design priorities
• Translate the typical requirements of European NATO countries into traceable, testable system requirements, and brief customers and internal teams on the results

You should apply if you

• Have created operational weapon system architectures and ConOps documents that shaped a real system
• Have designed operational scenarios and supervised simulation studies, and can show how the results changed decisions
• Have carried out operational analysis and applied operations research methods, such as modelling, optimisation and statistical analysis, to Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles or comparable combat air systems
• Have served in a NATO military and understand how European NATO countries define and prioritise requirements
• Explain complex analysis clearly to military users, engineers and senior decision-makers

Note: We operate in an industry where women, as well as other minority groups, are systematically under-represented. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the listed qualifications; ability and impact cannot be summarised in a few bullet points.

Nice to Have

• Have worked with national procurement bodies or contributed to multinational NATO requirements processes
• Have applied AI or autonomy-enabled methods to operational analysis, such as automated scenario generation or large-scale simulation

Competitive salary and VSOP options

These are the core benefits across all locations, there may be additional benefits in certain locations.

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