Systems Architect

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A career at Hitachi Rail will help create a legacy. With operations in every corner of the world, our work goes to the cutting-edge of digital transformation and technology. From the multi-cultural strength of our global organisation to the sustainable and innovative ways we work to bring people together, there's something for everyone to get stuck into. And that's where you come in.

Role Description

The Systems Architect is responsible for solution/product implementation. He/she defines the systems architecture, finalizing and maintaining the design solution for bids and projects throughout all lifecycle phases. They will perform system design, signaling design, analysis, modelling, and simulation to specify communication-based train control systems. They will develop and define system design features to meet Customer requirements. They will analyze and evaluate customer requirements and verify compliance with our product system technical requirements. They will develop and define System and Subsystems requirements to fulfill specific customer requirements on the project. They will communicate and gain acceptance of the design with the customer and internal stakeholders.

The incumbent is accountable for performing the design work independently, within cost and schedule limits, as defined in approved work packages. The incumbent will provide leadership within the team to perform system design activities to deliver a high quality and safe guideway design, on time, at the lowest cost and meeting customer requirements. The incumbent will also adapt system design processes to meet the needs of the project deployment and industry standards and ensure this process is followed by the team.

They are able to perform the role of Work Package Manager, to organize and assign work to the system engineers on the project, as well as managing (budget and schedule) the system design work for the project.

Key Accountabilities:

Technical

• Responsible for definition, stabilizing & maintaining of the Solution architecture for Bids and Projects throughout the development lifecycle in collaboration with the PDA and SEM.
• Drives and fosters innovative solutions to meet customer requirements in compliance with product / system technical strategy.
• Leading Integrated Design Team (IDT) to create the solution architecture through trade-offs between stakeholders' expectations, technical & technological solutions and cost , risks and schedule; documents associated artefacts (OCD, SSS, SSDD, ICD, IRS, architecture justification in D&JF) and approves resulting lower level specifications (whether internal or external).
• Approves the bid/project engineering technical reviews and deliverables
• Contributes to the solution development cycle and co-engineering approach definition.
• Leads throughout the project life cycle including the oversight of the proper requirements' allocation, flow-down and decomposition; management of performance assessment and critical parameters, interface definition, and arbitrates technically between the various contributors (whether internal or external).
• Contributes to technical specification definition and to technical assessment and down-selection of the subcontractors for planed subsystem acquisition.
• Act as PDA delegate, or acting PDA when necessary
• Ensures standardization and drives re-use wherever possible.
• Prepares and supports customer requirements compliance assessment, gap analysis, and architecture design.
• Operational design limits are evaluated and defined; converts Customer (internal and/or external) requirements into conceptual designs and prepares associated documentation by performing operational analyses, simulations and technical trade-off studies evaluating alternative design configurations and functional features.
• Similarly creates new concepts or modifies existing concepts to fulfil customer requirements.
• Prepares system, subsystem, and interface requirement specifications by analyzing and decomposing modelling, refining customer requirements and typical train control domain requirements.
• Prepares Operational Concept Document.
• Prepares and supports bids and proposals, including customer requirements compliance assessment, gap analysis, architecture design, simulation, trade-off of key features, estimation, etc.
• Presents technical design and reports to customers and/or other engineering/management groups in clear, complete, concise, and non-ambiguous terms.
• Defines or proposes updates of processes and standards covering the work and its products based on the knowledge of systems engineering and/or his technical specialty.
• Ensures the system design team has strong working relationships with Software, Hardware, Safety and ITV groups.
• Develops a strategy for development of the full solution on a project(s) and leads the system team to deliver based on this strategy
• Ensures and encourages the system team to follow the development process
• Strategy of development not only accounts for system development work but considers the activities of other teams to ensure the end-to-end solution can be developed in an efficient manner
• Evaluates workload to ensure the team has the resources and skills to complete the development and will escalate any concerns to system management.
• Has ability to identify development risks and can create/implement a plan to mitigate these risks

SAFETY:

• Promotes a safety culture where product safety is paramount.
• Ensures that safety is built into the design by early identification and resolution of safety related defects.

MANAGEMENT:

• Provides technical guidance to systems design specialists, responsible for requirements and design quality
• Leading technical discussions, technical solution presentation to internal and external stakeholders
• Identifies and implements process improvement initiatives
• Supervises contractors and other systems specialists, by defining their work, coaching them on how and what to prepare, monitoring their progress and directing them on priorities.
• Proposes work package estimates and descriptions based on the knowledge of the work and project requirements.
• Leads technical discussions, presents technical solutions and regular status reports to internal and external stakeholders.
• Mentor other systems engineers by coaching them on how and what to prepare, monitoring their progress.
• Providing technical guidance and directing them on priorities.
• Works closely with other Work Package Managers and the project team to ensure the system team has the inputs needed to perform the design and ensures the system team is providing the necessary outputs/support to other disciplines
• Identifies and implements process improvement initiatives.
• Engages other leaders in the organization to ensure the strategy for design on the project/product is consistent with other initiatives in the organization and is capitalizing on other project/product designs.

Key Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering (Systems, Electrical, Computer), Computer Science, or a closely related field
• Knowledge of modern software engineering practices, methods, and tools
• Knowledge of systems development life cycle
• Senior level expertise in URS (Urban Rail Signaling) Systems-Minimum 10 years on/or similar system complexity-Referent/coach on specialized engineering skills of the CBTC (Communication Based Train Control) domain
• Minimum 10 years' experience in development of software-based System applications
• Minimum 3 years relevant experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in using Capella tool in designing high complexity system.
• Involved in the delivery of more than one SelTrac project in some capacity including experience in System Design, System Integration, and System Acceptance.
• Strong planning and organizational skills
• Excellent technical writing, communication, and presentation skills
• Proven customer communication / technical Management skills.
• Strong application (automated train control systems) domain knowledge.
• Strong Knowledge of systems engineering principles and practices.
• Proven knowledge of systems development life cycle.
• Excellent technical writing and communication skills.
• Ability to present & demonstrate the technical solution/ product to customers with differing levels of knowledge about automated systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in using DOORS, Polarion, Capella tool, Melody advance, or other system design and requirement management tools
• Strong application (automated train control systems) domain knowledge & knowledge of systems engineering principles and practices
• Experience in developing/reviewing test scenarios and/or procedures from requirements
• Knowledge of Rail Signaling
• Knowledge of Communication Based Train Control
• Knowledge of advanced software engineering practices, methods and tools.
• Work Package Management
• Ability to sell/defend products to customers with differing levels of knowledge for automated systems.
• Strong planning and organization skills.
• Good marketing and presentation skills.
• P. Eng license is desirable

Total Compensation:

$150,000 - $190,000

Benefits:

• Health, Dental and Vision plans - 100% of premiums are company-paid
• Retirement Savings Plan with a company contribution and a match, and without vesting period
• Company paid holidays - 3 weeks of vacation, Holiday closure, personal emergency leave days and sick days
• Maternity/Parental/Adoption top up pay
• Annual Incentive plan
• Company provided Life Insurance, STD and Employee Assistance Plan

This posting relates to an existing vacancy.

Artificial intelligence may be used in the screening or assessment process for this role.

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