Job Description:

Are you passionate about architecture, engineering solutions, and shaping the next generation of digital capabilities? Do you enjoy working across infrastructure, applications, and business domains to design meaningful, integrated solutions?

If you are eager to grow your architectural skills and contribute to large-scale engineering transformation - this is for you. Airbus Defence and Space is looking for an

Application Architect (d/f/m)

to join our team in Munich, Germany.

Your location

Our site is just a stone's throw away from Munich, the beautiful capital of Bavaria. Are you into sports and other outdoor activities? The Alps and Lake Starnberg are within an hour’s reach, offering a multitude of recreational options.

Our Mission, Your Mission

We are an international architecture team shaping integrated solutions for Engineering Digital Business Products and Services. From Mechanical & Electrical Design to PDM/PLM & Configuration Management, and from Systems & Software Engineering to Simulation and Scientific Computing — we enable the technologies that engineers rely on every day.

Our mission is to deliver robust, scalable, end-to-end system architectures that empower engineering teams to design, simulate, build, and operate world-class products.

As an Application Architect, you will help shape the engineering domain’s future digital landscape. You will be involved in simplifying landscapes, defining target architectures that align with our enterprise strategy, influencing solution design across programs and projects, and ensuring architectural consistency.

You will collaborate with solution architects, IT specialists, and engineering stakeholders to design integrated solutions that bring real business value.

What You Bring

We are looking for engaged and motivated professionals excited about architecture and engineering digitalisation. You will thrive in this role if you bring several of the following:

• Experience or solid understanding of infrastructure, networks, and security components.

• Knowledge of architecture methods and frameworks, ideally TOGAF and modelling with ArchiMate.

• Analytical skills and the ability to translate technical needs into clear architecture views.

• Strong communication abilities and willingness to support and guide diverse IT and engineering teams.

• Curiosity, enthusiasm, and ambition to grow into a mature architect role.

What We Offer

• Attractive salary and special payments

• 30 days paid vacation and extra days-off for special occasions

• Excellent upskilling opportunities and great international, group wide development prospects

• Special benefits: employer-funded pension, employee stock options, discounted car leasing, special conditions for insurances, subsidies for public transport, employee benefits at cooperating companies

• On-site-facilities: Kindergarten close to the site, medical officer for check-ups and other health-related services, canteen and cafeteria, gym

• Compatibility of family & work (job sharing, part-time models, flexible working hours, individual timeout)

• Working in a diverse environment, with more than 140 nationalities, where every voice is heard

Not a 100% match? No worries! Airbus supports your personal growth with customized development solutions.

Take your career to a new level and apply on

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:

Airbus Defence and Space GmbH

Employment Type:

Permanent

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Experience Level:

Professional

Job Family:

Digital

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At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Airbus pioneers sustainable aerospace for a safe and united world. The Company constantly innovates to provide efficient and technologically-advanced solutions in aerospace, defence, and connected services. In commercial aircraft, Airbus offers modern and fuel-efficient airliners and associated services. Airbus is also a European leader in defence and security and one of the world's leading space businesses. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions and services worldwide.