About the role
AI summarisedSenior Solution Architect role at Thales' Airspace Mobility Solutions business, responsible for defining and delivering state-of-the-art Air Traffic Management solutions. The role involves defining, stabilizing, and maintaining solution architecture for bids and projects across all lifecycle phases, ensuring alignment with customer requirements and technical strategy.
Aerospace & DefenseFull-timeGeneral
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure the solution architecture is optimised to satisfy the product requirements: Bringing to the foreground the key architectural drivers Exploring the solution space to define a set of alternate candidate architectural concepts and perform related trade-offs ensuring all design alternatives are recorded and decisions justified Perform early validation of the architecture including modelling and proof of concept activities to de-risk
- Develop Architectural Viewpoints to: Define the system breakdown Lead the interface definition and arbitrate technically between the various contributors (whether internal or external) Describe the system behaviour through functional flows and identifying dependencies between system components
- Specify Technical Performance Measurements (TPMs) and support their validation throughout the lifecycle of the project
- Document architecture in required artefacts (E.g. Product Breakdown Structure and System of System Design Documentation).
- Responsible for stabilising and maintaining the solution architecture throughout its lifecycle in cooperation with the Project Design Authority (PDA) and the Engineering Delivery Manager (EDM).
- Support the PDA and EDM in the approval of the main engineering reviews and deliverables.
- Review key Subsystems including Infrastructure, Platform and Security artefacts ensuring that the constraints imposed by the system requirements on the design are understood and met.
- Ensure and demonstrate that the defined architecture meets the requirements taking into consideration: Performance Safety Security Human Factors ILS Contractually applicable legislation, rules and regulations including Environmental/HSE requirements and standards.
- Contribute to the development of Architecture Policies, Processes and Procedures to ensure best practice.
- Provide mentoring and support to all personnel involved in architecture activities.
Requirements
- Degree in Engineering, IT, or a related discipline.
- 7+ years experience in similar positions on projects delivering complex software-centric real-time systems.
- Strong experience in the ATM (Air Traffic Management) Domain and knowledge of standards such as ICAO and Eurocontrol.
- Demonstrated experience in designing infrastructure and network architectures.
- Demonstrated experience in designing secure solution architectures in line with security standards and policies.
- Experience with collective decision-making and conflict resolution.
- Ability to manage diverse stakeholders with different objectives.
- Proven ability to work effectively in a multi-cultural environment and with international customers.
- Aptitude for working in a multi-disciplinary, integrated team environment.
- Experience with Modelling Tools (e.g., Capella, Enterprise Architect).
- Experience with System Engineering tools (e.g., DOORs, Jira).
- Experience working in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
- Eligible to apply for and obtain Security Clearance from the Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs (CAT2).
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally on an occasional basis.