System Architect

Responsible for requirement management, high level design, technical management, implementation and testing of simulation projects as directed by the Project Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Realize target architecture, advancing business and technology roadmap.
• Handle high level system architectures and interfaces for Sydac product and projects.
• Analyze current product/project environment to detect critical deficiencies and suggest enhancement solutions.
• Analyze industry and market trends to identify impact on existing solution & architecture.
• Lead architecture vision, design and documentation.
• Represent technical team to program managers and executive leadership.
• Communicate technical needs, opportunities and constraints to project managers, functional teams, and leadership.
• Function as subject matter expert and system architecture authority for systems integration.
• Lead on system design, architecture and integration.
• Lead project teams to use technology to support system architecture design.
• Approve high risk designs before execution and define solutions, strategy and enterprise architecture services.
• Lead, govern and collaborate across team development functions.
• Offer design leadership, input and manage system tradeoffs.
• Design and document key system components, interfaces, infrastructure and communications.
• Provide requirement management, translation of high-level customer requirement to detailed system and software requirement.
• Provide detailed analysis of requirements, definition of done, and technical guidance to the functional teams
• Provide acceptance criterial, framework and scope of test environment, test setup, and test execution
• Provide leadership and ownership of PDR, CDR, and other design/architecture related activities with internal and external stakeholder.
• Maintain upto date backlog in Jira, address any gaps on regular basis
• To work horizontally across the teams with an emphasis on architecture, system requirement, design, and acceptance testing. Provide greater visibility of technical performance in a wider context over and above the current task to all teams in Pune
• Be eyes and ears for the Team in Adelaide (extension of ADL systems team), participate in regular discussions, provide constant updates on the ground situation in Pune.

Requirements

• Experience preferred- 10+yrs
• Requirements Management
• System Engineering Planning
• System Design and High-Level Architecture
• Technical Risk Management
• Integration & Test Planning
• Verification and Acceptance
• Technical Management
• Tender Support as delegated by the System Architect Team Lead
• Customer interaction as delegated by the Project Manager
• Monitor and advise upon the effectiveness of Sydac's quality systems
• Thorough understanding of engineering principles
• Good verbal and written communication skills, good analytical skills
• Strong ability to understand technical systems
• Working knowledge of Agile methodologies and Scrum Framework, backlog grooming
• Managing and improving processes
• Problem solving and decision making
• Quality of work
• Initiative/quickness
• Performance under stress