About the role
AI summarisedThis role is for an Aviation Systems Architect at Thales' International Avionics Lab in Singapore, focusing on designing next-generation aviation and digital solutions. The architect will shape system architectures for innovation projects, working with avionics, cloud, and software platforms in an agile environment.
Aerospace & DefenseFull-timeGeneral
Key Responsibilities
- Gather and translate operational needs, business requirements (e.g. business case, requirement specifications, non-functional requirement specifications & use case models specific to the solution) and innovation concepts into structured system designs and technical solutions
- Define the system architectures of the Lab's platforms and innovation demonstrators, thinking out of the box, and work collaboratively with the rest of the team to build a shared approach consensus
- Work in an agile, cross-functional multinational team, actively engaging to support the success of the team
- Guide engineering teams during design, integration and technical decision-making
- Lead selected technical projects and coordinate engineering activities
Requirements
- Typically 6+ years in system engineering or architecture roles
- Background in aerospace, avionics, airline operations or air traffic management, large-scale platforms or complex software systems
- Degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace, Computer Engineering or equivalent
- Solid understanding of aircraft systems and airline / avionics environments
- Familiar with avionics communication data exchanges principles
- Solid experience in solution architecture design, definition and development (Workflow, Data Architecture, System and Cloud Architecture) of aviation-related complex systems
- Capabilities to assess the cybersecurity of cloud technologies, architectures and deployments (e.g. how things are connected and potential risk areas)
- Knowledge of several programming languages (e.g. Python, C/C++, Kotlin, TypeScript, Ada or Java 6) or frameworks (React, Swing)
- Previous experience with AI/ML frameworks
- Distributed systems, cloud platforms, aviation systems integration, APIs, data platforms, networked systems
- Cloud technologies and Cloud-native architectures for system design and delivery
- Demonstrated experience guiding small teams and / or junior software engineers