Senior Solution Architect - Physical Security Systems

Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

About
At Thales, we are actively supporting our customers in the development and provision of a ‘smart city’ state-of-the-art Security Solution. The projects associated with the implementation of security and safety systems are highly innovative, international, and multi-industry in nature, requiring in-depth technical knowledge of the solutions and components as well as a real mastery of the systems aspect needed to successfully complete the projects.

Thales is actively recruiting for a Senior Solution Architect to support our customer. This is a critical role within the development, focusing on the whole security solution, understanding customer requirements, developing solutions that align to these requirements, managing the complete solution including supplier management, and ensuring customer satisfaction.

Roles & Responsibilities
The role of the Senior Solution Architect is to:

• Support customers in their technical choices and promote Thales solutions (SDP, etc.)
• Describe and structure the architectures of future security systems in coordination with project teams and engineering teams.
• Act as Design Authority.
• Coordinate internal and external partners to achieve a coherent vision and architecture.
• Participate in the costing of technical solutions and ensure their competitiveness.
• Oversee the choice of technical solutions in a context of innovation that can extend into the next fifteen to thirty years.
• Communicate solutions in support of PRS strategy, sales management, and domain management.
• Participate and guide technical policy.

Work Experience Requirements

• 15 years of experience on various Systems Engineering lifecycle activities.
• 5 years of experience working in different Technical Management positions.
• Demonstrable experience creating architecture of a whole solution based on customer requirements within Physical Security Systems.

Preferred Skills
The qualities needed to succeed in this role are:

• A structured approach to systems architectures and associated modeling tools.
• Wide-ranging technical skills in the fields of information systems, sensors, end-effectors, and network, radio, and operator-managed services infrastructure.
• A real understanding of the digital technologies deployed in the Cloud.
• The ability to analyze operational needs and employment scenarios and to extract technical requirements from them.
• The ability to manage technical contributors as well as various GBUs, assembly, and integration partners.
• An innovative vision and a 15-year solution-building perspective, while maintaining a pragmatic and iterative approach to system delivery throughout the period.
• A strong capacity for conviction that will support and lend credibility to Thales' strategic statements in this field.