Senior Solution Architect

Location: Singapore, Singapore

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Thales established its presence in Singapore in 1973 to support the expansion of aerospace-related activities in the Asia-Pacific region. Throughout the last four decades, the company grew from strength to strength and is today involved in the primary businesses of Aerospace (including Air Traffic Management), Defence & Security, Ground Transportation and Digital Identity & Security. Thales today employs over 2,100 people in Singapore across all its business areas.

Organisation Context

The Airspace Mobility Solutions (AMS) business, part of the Global Business Unit Land and Air Systems, is providing leading edge Air Traffic Management (ATM), Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM), Security and Digital Aviation solutions for the Commercial and Defence sectors.

The AMS business manages 11% of the world’s airspace and with revenues of over 500 million Euros worldwide, is the global market leader in airspace management solutions.  In Singapore, the business focus is the delivery and support of two key ATM solutions including TopSKY-ATC(HE) and LORADS-III.

This role will initially support the TopSKY-ATC (HE) product.

Role Description

The role of Senior Solution Architect is a key role to define and deliver a state-of-the-art Air Traffic Solution. 

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.

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.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering, IT or related discipline

Essential Experience

• 5+ years experience in similar positions on projects delivering complex software-centric real-time systems.
• Strong experience in the ATM Domain and Air Traffic Management standards eg. ICAO, Eurocontrol
• 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
• 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
• A positive attitude combined with excellent interpersonal and motivational skills.
• Sound judgement and independent decision-making capability where necessary
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English

Desirable:

• Experience in Modelling Tools e.g. Capella, Enterprise Architect
• Experience in System Engineering tools eg. DOORs, Jira
• Experience in working in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

General / Special Requirements

• Assist in ensuring a harmonious work environment in all departments that you are working with by upholding Thales' key values.
• An advocate for diversity and inclusion who will be actively involved in implementing change initiatives to achieve our diversity goals
• An advocate for a culture of continuous improvement
• An advocate for Accountability, transparency and curiosity
• Comply with all relevant company Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental policies and framework and work practices with the intent of preventing or minimising accidental exposures to self, colleagues, visitors and/or the environment and to ensure a safe work practises at all times.
• Comply with all relevant Company policies and procedures.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Be eligible for Security Clearance from the Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs (CAT2)
• Occasional international travel may be required

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