# Senior Operational Architect/Analyst (UCAV)

**Company**: Helsing
**Location**: Munich
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Defence & Intelligence

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## Description

## Job Overview

As Senior Operational Architect/Analyst for our Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) programme, you will define how the system operates and show that it works. You will shape the operational weapon system architecture, from the Concept of Operations (ConOps) to the scenarios that test it. You will oversee simulation studies and use operations research methods to turn the results into clear evidence for engineers, programme managers and customers. Your work will set the operational requirements the UCAV is built against and ensure they reflect the needs of European NATO nations. You will connect military users with technical teams.

## Responsibilities

- 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

## Requirements

- 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

## 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

## Benefits

- Competitive salary and VSOP options

- Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation

- Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance

- Health & wellness: gym membership and mental health support (Nilo.health)

- Social: regularly company events and monthly social allowances

- Enhanced parental leave: 22 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers & 6 weeks for secondary caregivers

- Family support: 5 days of paid family emergency leave, 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work

## Skills

### Required
- operations research
- modelling
- optimisation
- statistical analysis
- Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles
- NATO military
- complex analysis

### Nice to have
- AI
- autonomy-enabled methods
- automated scenario generation
- large-scale simulation

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