Ajiss Ide Pda

Location: Ottawa, Canada

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For decades, Ottawa has been a global technology leader. Today, Canada’s capital holds one of the brightest and most diverse technological ecosystems in North America. Voted as Canada’s best place to live 2017 by Maclean's, Ottawa offers a low cost of living with a high quality of life. The Thales Ottawa office has been a major supplier and long-term trusted partner to DND, enabling the Canadian Armed Forces and the Canadian Coast Guard to achieve mission success.

**Position Summary**

The Critical Systems Architect is responsible for leading the definition and design of the AJISS Integrated Data Environment (IDE), which is the digital automation & transformation platform behind the $5B AJISS contract:

- Earns the trust of IDE Stakeholders, including the broader functional groups within the Customer organization.
- Formulates and stages the solution consistent with Customer guidance, immediate AJISS needs, long term AJISS needs, and Group product policy. Influences investments to accelerate ROI.
- Guarantees solution compliance
- Builds and advises on industrial teams composed of external partners and internal resources.
- Communicates technical solutions to all audiences.

This specific position will be assigned as the PDA (Project Design Authority) for the AJISS IDE.

**Key Responsibilities**

The expectations from Critical Systems Architect are as follows:

- Visualize and design data centric systems of systems of systems. Develop IDE System Architecture documents and artifacts where functionality, performance, and cyber security are addressed as an integrated whole.
- Work with IDE end users to capture key value and pain points.
- Identify, vet, recommend, and collaborate with Thales’ AJISS partners.
- Develop and present AJISS Value-ECPs per the contract.
- Support capture, bid and project team to understand the context and customer needs
- Acts as the primary technical leader for the IDE and the lead technical interface with the Customer
- Present solutions and designs to partners, customers, and internal stakeholders, including the preparation of RFP documents.
- Contributing to technical and Group level product policy development and governance
- Contributing to the strategic planning by eliciting needs from the business lines, and aligning with the Thales Group’s initiatives
- Sponsoring and launching R&D projects
- Providing coaching and tutoring to staff
- Contributing to technical specification definition and to subcontractor selection
- Influencing architecture practices within the organization
- Informing and influencing key stakeholders to align with strategic direction

**Key Requirements**:
**Education**:

- Education: Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent education with relevant experience.

**Must Haves (requirements)**
- 10+ years in critical enterprise level systems design and development
- 10+ years’ experience in delivering transaction intensive cloud supported services in a commercial environment.
- 5+ years’ experience in the delivery of cloud based services and or the transition of cloud based services to on prem.

Expertise in at least 10:

- Needs analysis, value propositions, value creation
- Workflow elicitation
- Data Modeling
- Architecture frameworks
- Cybersecurity
- COTS-COTS integration Public and Private Cloud Implementations
- Mobile communications and computing
- Distributed systems
- Optimization techniques
- Enterprise systems
- Networking
- Software systems architecture
- Model-based systems engineering
- Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
- Data Science
- UX principles and methodologies

**Key Competencies**
- Product development/management experience for enterprise solutions.
- Excellent communication (verbal & written) and interpersonal skills required to succeed leading multidisciplinary teams delivering powerful solutions to the ecosystem supported by the AJISS IDE.
- Proven problem solving and analytic skills with a track record of successful outcomes
- Recognized for ability to engage stakeholders at all levels of the organisation and externally with customers.
- Strong business acumen and ability to identify and address issues within a complex business environment
- Capable of developing strong relationships across the business through excellent customer service

**Key Qualifications**

Technical/Specialized Knowledge: Familiarity with enterprise solutions used within an in service support context is desirable

Language: French fluency would be an asset

**Regulatory Compliance Requirements**:

- Be eligible to obtain Canadian Controlled Goods, Reliability and Secret, NAT