Lead Systems Architect

About This Role

Who We Are: 

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, civil aviation, and healthcare by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness. 

• CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness. 

• CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed. 

What We Have to Offer: 

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance 

• A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe 

• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions 

• Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun! 

Summary  

The Lead Systems Architect performs technical planning, system design, integration, verification and validation, cost, risk, supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems. Analyses are performed at all levels of total system product to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal. Interface with all stakeholders to ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule and cost constraints. Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities  

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

• Works under consultative direction to achieve annual goals and objectives 

• Responsible for establishing educational and training goals for area of expertise and ensuring those goals are achieved. 

• Responsible for managing large, complex project initiatives of strategic importance to the organization, involving large cross-functional teams 

• Communicates within and outside of the organization which includes larger customers or vendors 

• Frequently conducts briefings to senior leaders and customers. 

• Responsible for improving upon existing processes or establishing new systems using significant conceptualizing, reasoning and interpretation 

• Recommends tactics and strategies that will directly impact the achievement of overall business or functional results 

Qualifications and Education Requirements  

• Requires mastery level knowledge within a speci