System Architect

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Syracuse, NY or Arlington, VA (Hybrid)

The FAA’s Brand-New Air Traffic Control System and other initiatives related to Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Advanced Air Mobility are fueling the growth of Thales’ Airspace Mobility Solutions team. We are expanding our teams in Arlington, Virginia and Syracuse, New York and seek talented individuals who want to be part of these ambitious initiatives shaping the future of aviation. We are looking for people with a passion for aviation and ready to deliver innovative solutions built to the nation’s highest safety and security standards.

America’s aviation moment is now. Thales has the solutions, experience and expertise to execute now. Come join our journey.

• US - CUI Regulatory Compliance Requirement – Must be a US Person as defined in applicable law.

• Serve as the primary technical interface with customers on solution architecture, design, performance, and lifecycle considerations; proactively anticipate, analyze, and translate customer and stakeholder needs into a structured and traceable initial requirements baseline; and formalize solution requirements and ensure alignment with business objectives, technical feasibility, and lifecycle constraints.
• Lead and oversee the architecting of software solutions in alignment with the approved technology roadmap, agile development strategy, and sprint planning cycles; define and drive the development strategy for advanced algorithms, software applications, and enabling technologies required to deliver the solution; and develop, stabilize, and maintain solution architectures for bids and projects across the full lifecycle, in close cooperation with the System Engineering Manager (SEM).
• Develop and evolve the solution architecture by fully understanding operational context, stakeholder expectations, and system constraints; define and propose candidate architectures at the solution or solution-element level that meet stakeholder expectations while complying with standardization, reuse policies, technology roadmaps, and business strategy; and establish solution architectures through structured trade-offs among stakeholder expectations, technical and technological options, cost, risk, and schedule, documenting architectural rationale through formal artifacts (e.g., D&JF, PBS, SSDD), and approving resulting lower-level specifications.
• Lead architectural trade-off analyses to balance evolving customer requirements with cost, risk, opportunity, schedule, and critical performance objectives throughout project execution; lead requirements allocation, interface definition, performance assessment, and management of critical parameters throughout the project lifecycle, arbitrating technical decisions across internal and external contributors; and review, assess, and manage technical risks and opportunities in collaboration with the System Engineering Manager (SEM), ensuring mitigation plans are defined, monitored, and executed across bids and projects.
• Ensure full compliance of the solution with product policies, production and service strategies, contractual obligations, and applicable regulations (including export controls, Environmental/HSE, safety, and security); verify that the engineering environment (processes, practices, and tools) complies with company and country requirements while optimizing overall solution cost, technical risk, and schedule; and approve technical specifications and source selection for outsourced subsystems and products in accordance with Make-Team-Buy policy, export restrictions, and offset requirements.
• Prepare, review, and sign Design Validation (DVa) documentation at each applicable bid and project milestone, ensuring formal approval by the Design Authority (DA); review and approve the completion of integration, verification, validation, and qualification (IVVQ) activities, oversee customer acceptance of the solution, and approve key bid and project engineering reviews and deliverables when acting at the solution-element level in the absence of a Project Design Authority (PDA);
  
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