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.

Project Design Authority Unmanned Traffic Management