Lead Architect

The Portfolio Architect is a pivotal role focused on shaping the technical landscape of products designed within a portfolio. This role is essential for collaborating with technical owners across product teams to optimize operations, enhance efficiency, and deliver innovative solutions tailored to the unique needs of transport industry.

Key Responsibilities:

• Portfolio-Level Tech Strategy: Work with CTO to define and lead the technical strategy for the portfolio, specializing in products for planning and management. Collaborate with product team technical owners to align strategies with operational goals
• Technical Documentation: Develop comprehensive technical documentation at the portfolio level, including detailed product/service interaction overviews and data flows tailored to airport operations requirements.
• Key Design Decisions: Represent critical design decisions at the Software Design Authority (SDA) specific to airport operations, ensuring alignment with industry standards and best practices.
• Portfolio Change Assessment: Evaluate and provide technical insights into the portfolio's change funnel, focusing on optimizing products for planning, scheduling, resource management, and operational efficiency.
• Product-Level Collaboration: Collaborate closely with product teams to influence and contribute to product-level design decisions, technical design documents, and effective management of technical debt within portfolio.
• Security and Compliance: Lead efforts in product-level threat modelling and security workbooks, ensuring robust security measures are implemented across airport operation systems. Collaborate with EISO and security domain architects to ensure compliance with industry regulations.
• Capability Modelling: Drive capability modelling initiatives within the portfolio, working alongside product owners, business analysts, and tech owners to enhance products.
• Guideline Development: Play a key role in establishing "guiderails" specific to portfolio architecture, identifying gaps in best practices and tools, and championing the creation of new services through collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Consulting Support: Provide technical expertise and support to consulting architects during customer engagements, ensuring a deep understanding of the portfolio's technical capabilities
• Mergers and Acquisitions: Contribute to technical assessments for mergers and acquisitions, ensuring alignment of the portfolio's products with evolving industry standards and compatibility with existing systems

Requirements:

• Technical Expertise: Proficiency in architecting solutions, with experience in cloud-based technologies, preferably Microsoft Azure. Knowledge of container-based architectures, such as Kubernetes, is a plus.
• Industry Knowledge: Broad functional understanding of airport business capabilities
• Cloud and Container Skills: Proficiency in architecting cloud-based solutions, with a preference for experience with Microsoft Azure in an airport operations context. Experience in architecting solutions based on containers, particularly Kubernetes, for scalable and efficient messaging systems.
• Stakeholder Management: Proven track record of excellent stakeholder management within the airport and airline industry, understanding diverse stakeholder needs and effectively communicating technical concepts.
• Communication Skills: Exceptional communication skills to convey complex technical ideas and solutions to non-technical stakeholders within the airport domain.
• Collaboration Skills: Strong collaborative skills to work closely with product teams, business stakeholders, and technical delivery teams to drive effective solutions tailored to airport needs.

WHAT WE OFFER:  
SITA’s workplace is all about diversity, many different countries and cultures are represented in our workforce. We collaborate in our impressive offices, embracing a hybrid work format. As part of our global benefits, we offer:
🏡 Flex-week: Work from home up to 2 days/week (depending on your Team's needs).
⌚ Flex-day: You may wish to flex your arrival time at the office, to beat the rush hours or you may want to leave the office earlier to pick up your kids from school or to go to your favorite game: We support you in being open about your needs and routine with you manager.
🌎 Flex-location: Benefit for 30 working days from anywhere around the world each year! 
🙌🏽 Competitive benefits according to the local market 

SITA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and values a diverse workforce. In support of our Employment Equity Program, women, aboriginal people, members of visible minorities, and/or persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply and self-identify in the application process.