Project Design Authority Unmanned Traffic Management

Role description :

Project Design Authority is responsible for Solution Compliance for Project. 

Responsibilities :
•    Support capture, bid and project team to understand the context and customer needs and defines the initial needs baseline;
•    Acts as the primary technical leader of the project team.
•    Acts as lead technical interface with the Customer as regards Solution architecture, design and performance
•    Assess alternative solutions.
•    Ensures the feasibility of the Solution including:
o    adequacy of the solution in term of architecture and technology maturity with respect to solution requirements,
o    consistency of the Solution with the Product Policy and Make-Team-Buy strategy,
o    feasibility with respect to cost, schedule, skills, resources and industrial organization,
o    compliance with the contractual requirements (including offsets) and applicable legislation & regulations (ie export restrictions, Environmental/HSE, safety, security..),
o    risk assessment and the related mitigation plan.
•    Ensures that the production and maintenance/service aspects of the Solution are taken into account in terms of: Manufacturability, Maintainability, Consistency between Non-Recurring & Recurring/Production costs.
•    Ensures, with the support of Specialty Engineering experts that the Solution design takes into account the contract requirements and the applicable legislation, rules and regulations, including product safety & security and Environmental/HSE (Health, Safety & Environment) requirements and standards, that the related certification activities are performed correctly;
•    Prepare and Sign the Design Validation (Dva) and Reports regularly to the DA on technical status and on technical risks; 
•    Takes into account the remarks from the DA as regards the validity of the Solution and the risk assessment and mitigation
•    Alerts in a timely manner the PM and DA as needed.
•    Approves the main bid/project Engineering Reviews and approves the main Engineering deliverables at each project decision milestone.

More precisely in the context of the project
•    Understand and translate customer needs and orient solution to comply with the product architecture and roadmap,
•    Master project technical requirements,
•    Ensure technical interface with customer until delivery and deployment
•    Identifies and reviews the technical risks and opportunities and the related mitigation plans throughout the project
•    Organises when appropriate technical meetings and peer reviews in order to perform the Solution or Solution Element technical assessment and validation

Experience required
•    5+ years experience in similar positions on projects delivering software-centric systems.
•    Good experience in the UTM (Unmanned Traffic Management) or ATM (Air Traffic Management) Domain and knowledge of relative standards
•    Experience in managing diverse stakeholders with different objectives
•    Proven ability to work effectively in a multi-cultural environment and with international customers
•    Experience in Product driven model, Product Line Engineering and Lean/Agile Engineering
•    Ability to drive and formalize retained architecture, design constraints, key and critical topics, key functional and non-functional requirements
•    SaaS and Cloud based solution

Knowledge / Skills
•    Stakeholder Relationship Management 
•    Ability to ensure accountability, to create customer intimacy and to build trust 
•    Critical thinking and Analysis capacity (ability to evaluate issue or situation to qualify the issue or situation)
•    Data and configuration management
•    Positive attitude combined with excellent interpersonal and motivational skills.