Description:
The role of Senior Solution Architect is a front facing role and requires direct engagement with our Customer and key internal senior stakeholders. The role is responsible for defining, stabilising and maintaining the solution architecture for bids and projects for all lifecycle phases, it includes:
• Defining and proposing innovative technical solutions that meet customer requirements and are compliant with the business’ product/system technical strategy
• Analysing the architectural and technical choices to ensure the best trade-off between customer requirements, technical solutions, cost and risk.
Key accountabilities of the role:
- Lead working groups conducting technical arbitration between Subsystems, Infrastructure, Platform and Security teams and the constraints they place on the system design.
- Key contact with the customer on technical issues including evolutions to the solution baseline.
- Responsible for stabilising and maintaining the solution architecture throughout its lifecycle.
- Ensure the solution architecture is optimised to address the real need through:
- 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
- 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).
- Support the Project Design Authority (PDA) and the Systems Engineering Manager (SEM) 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.
What you’ll need to succeed:
- 10+ years experience in similar positions on projects delivering complex software-centric real-time systems.
- Experience in Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and architectural frameworks e.g. Arcadia and NAF
- Experience in ATM domain and Air Traffic Management standards eg. ICAO, Eurocontrol, AID is highly desirable.
- Experience in Modelling Tools e.g. Capella, Enterprise Architect
- Demonstrated experience in the design of infrastructure and network architectures
- Demonstrated experience in the design of secure solution architectures inline with security standards and policies eg. ISM
- Experience with collective decisions and conflict resolutions
- Capability to manage various stakeholders having different objectives
- Proven capability to work in a multi-cultural environment and with variety of international customers.
- Aptitude to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary integrated team environment