Solution Architect

Location: Singapore, Singapore

Thales people architect solutions at the heart of the defence-security continuum. Interoperable and secure information and telecommunications systems for defence, security, and civil operators, are based upon innovative use of radiocommunications, networks, and cybersecurity. We are ground breaking new digital technologies such as 4G mobile communications, cryptography, cloud computing and big data for use in physical protection systems, and critical information systems.

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.

ROLE DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

The main responsibilities of this role is to ensure solution and architectural design satisfies customer technical and project requirements (including budget and schedule); ensuring solution is implemented in line with product policy, legislation, appropriate technical regulatory framework, design obligations and that technical risk are clearly identified and managed.

The architect is a member of the Engineering team, reports functionally to the Engineering Manager and operationally to the Engineering Delivery Manager or Project Manager.

He may interface with Technical Directors and Product/Project Design Authorities from the Business Lines to get approvals on solution design/change.

KEY ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Solution Architect, you are accountable for:

• Plan, design, lead & maintain the solution architecture for Bids and Projects throughout all lifecycle phases.
• Define and propose innovative solutions to meet customer requirements in compliance with product/system technical strategy.
• Analyze technical and technological choices to ensure the best trade-off between customer requirements, technical solutions, costs and risk control.
• Ensure standardization and adequate re-use in solutions as defined/recommended by the PDA (Product/Project Design Authority) and DA (Design Authority) from Thales Business Lines.
• Contribute to definitions on technical specification, scope of work, and choice of subcontractor for needed subsystem acquisition, taking into account possible export controls.
• Coordinate with PDA/DA to ensure top down refinement of solutions is consistent with software/system strategy and constraints, including COTS & OSS selection and components reuse.
• Ensure software & system architecture stability across lifecycle phases from Bid to Delivery.
• Direct and coordinate software architecture studies and documentations.
• Approve the technical, technological, and methodological choices taken in respect of the selected software & system architecture.
• Guarantee adherence to in-scope standards, reuse policy and product development plans.
• Identify modelling, simulation and prototyping opportunities for current and future use.
• Prepare solution design & justifications for selected design
• Provide guidance to others on state-of-the-art software & system architecting, taking into account future trends.
• Collaborate with software engineering manager (SwEM) in checking "Software Asset Management (SAM)" for software components and ensure components used in engineering workbenches are properly captured (codification, compliance, impacts on costs, etc).
• Collaborate with hardware infrastructure, cyber security, and network team in reviewing and ensuring design completeness in compliance with bids and project requirements, as well as design to costs, schedule and manageable risks

KEY KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

To be successful in your role, you will have demonstrated and/or acquired the following knowledge and experience:

QUALIFICATIONS

• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related discipline (essential)
• Higher degree qualifications are desirable.
• TOGAF certification is highly desirable.

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a Senior Engineering role
• Experience in collaborating or managing multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience in managing multiple small projects simultaneously
• Strong oral and written communications & liaison skills
• Experience working within a Solution/Systems Engineering lifecycle
• Experience working in projects supporting end-to-end from bid, design to delivery
• Passion in ensuring good design in solutions and able to balance risk costs factors

DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE

• Experience in a project management or systems delivery management role
• Experience working in large scale Security projects
• Experience with large scale integration of data, sensors, video management systems or 3rd party systems
• Good knowledge of design and validation processes throughout lifecycle of projects
• Membership of relevant professional organisation, e.g. INCOSE, Institution of Engineers Singapore, etc.

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