Main Tasks & Responsibilities :
This Solution Architect in Thales is responsible to:
• 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
