Digital Solution Architect

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Job Description:

Airbus Americas, Inc is looking for Digital Solution Architect to join our IT/Solution Architect team.

Meet the Team: 
The Digital Solution Architect in Airbus North America  is responsible for operationally designing digital solutions for any solutions related to the assigned site.
In the context of key Digital Transformation programs, the job holder will be responsible to design, to follow & validate designs or even implement some products delivered to business functions. The job holder  will combine robust architecture skills and experiences, drive to improve existing systems and solutions and innovative mind-set to develop solutions for evolving business requirements.

How We Care for You:
⦁    Financial Rewards: Competitive base salary, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”)
⦁    Work/Life Balance: Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a generous paid parental leave program.
⦁    Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high-deductible health plans), prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages. 
⦁    Individual Development: Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University, including unlimited access to 10,000+ e-learning courses focusing on ways to develop your employability, certifications, career path as well as the opportunity to participate in accelerated development programmes and both national and international mobility.

Your Challenges:

Product and Solution Design: 70%

• Analyze, assess and maturate projects business requirements and expectation provided through a Business Requirement Dossier or product backlog. 

• Lead the solution design end to end: define all architectural layers: functional, data, application, infrastructure, network, security, collaborating with all internal and external resources sufficient to produce architecture design documents.

• Produce self-explanatory architecture scenario decision matrix to support decision taking by business and Digital management

• Ensure Digital landscape Integration and Operational viability of new products, defining and supporting Operation Conditions of Success (means, skills, process …) with Product / Project teams” to guarantee Product Robustness, Scalability, Performance and Security

• Responsible and accountable from an end-to-end perspective of the solution design consistency in both the global and local overall Digital landscape in line with Enterprise Architecture Governance

• Deliver Business Product design through either traditional waterfall or incremental/Agile/SAFE methodologies in order to provide the value expected by stakeholders.

• Ensure reporting about Architecture activities to management and project manager

• Lead Technical Guidance to accompany Product owners & managers to ensure fast Product deliveries applying Agile and DevOps principles when deemed appropriate

• Manage escalations when necessary.

Architecture Framework and Governance: 20%

• Contribute to Architecture framework and knowledge base proposing best practices and guidance for product design

• Implement and propose solution architecture processes improvement

• Contribute to Airbus North-America Digital Masterplan, Enterprise Architecture and Dig