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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 Lifecycle Architect for Naval Ships at Damen Naval, you'll ensure naval systems comply with strict technical requirements, design scalable maintenance solutions, and develop asset management and logistics technologies to enhance readiness and reduce downtime for naval ships.

Key accountabilities

As the Lifecycle Architect for Naval Ships, your key responsibilities will include:

• Develop innovative, scalable ship lifecycle support and training solutions that align with business objectives and technical requirements, enhancing materiel and personnel readiness, optimizing availability and reliability, and minimizing downtime.
• Integrate ship lifecycle support systems with existing infrastructure for seamless data exchange and interoperability.
• Perform configuration management and integrate health and usage monitoring, smart supply, logistic support, and training solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze business requirements, translating them into efficient technical solutions aligned with Damen Naval’s vision.
• Implement security best practices to protect sensitive ship data and ensure regulatory compliance. Work closely with developers, engineers, project managers, and cross-functional teams to implement solutions.
• Provide guidance in the development process, helping teams make informed technology, design, and best practice decisions.
• Continuously monitor system performance, identify improvement areas, recommend optimizations, and implement best practices.

Skills & experience

To excel as a Lifecycle Support Architect, you should possess the following qualifications and qualities:

• At least five years of relevant experience in life cycle support management, techniques and principles,
• Master or bachelor degree in IT, or another relevant technical study.
• Experience in data ethics and data security as a Solution Architect, preferably in the domains of naval engineering, research, development, and innovation gained in the naval and or maritime life cycle support industry.
• Preferably familiar with naval operations and maritime regulations, ship maintenance, repair, and support processes such as ILS and LCM.
• Good command of the English preferably also Dutch language both written and verbal.
• Excellent references antecedents as a pre-employment security screening is standard part of the recruitment procedure.
• Permanent EU citizenship and passport are both required and candidates with NL/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 with 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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