Lead Solution Architect Airports
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Solution Design & Architecture Lead the design of integrated airport technology solutions covering passenger processing (check-in, self-service kiosks, bag drop, boarding), bagg.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the design of integrated airport technology solutions covering passenger processing, baggage handling, common use systems, and airport operational systems
- Define target architectures and roadmaps spanning applications, data, integration, infrastructure, cloud, networks, and security
- Produce and own high level and low level design artefacts, solution blueprints, interface specifications, and architecture decision records
- Make and justify build vs buy and platform selection decisions
- Design integration architectures (APIs, ESB/iPaaS, messaging, event driven) connecting airline, airport, ground handler, government, and retail systems
- Ensure solutions meet availability, performance, failover, and business continuity requirements for 24/7 safety critical environments
- Embed cyber security, data protection, and regulatory compliance into designs (security by design)
- Act as senior technical authority across engagement lifecycle: bid, mobilisation, design, build, test, transition, operations
- Lead and mentor a team of solution and domain architects
- Build trusted advisor relationships with airport executives, operational stakeholders, airlines, regulators, and technology partners
Requirements
- Deep expertise in airport domain including passenger processing, baggage handling, common use systems, and airport operational systems
- Proven experience leading solution architecture for large scale airport technology programs
- Strong knowledge of integration patterns (APIs, ESB, iPaaS, messaging, event driven)
- Experience with cloud, infrastructure, networks, and security architecture
- Ability to produce high level and low level design artefacts, solution blueprints, and architecture decision records
- Excellent stakeholder management and client facing skills
- Experience in pre sales, proposals, and innovation activities
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Solution Design & Architecture
- Lead the design of integrated airport technology solutions covering passenger processing (check in, self service kiosks, bag drop, boarding), baggage handling and reconciliation, common use systems (CUPPS, CUSS, CUTE), and airport operational systems (AODB, RMS, FIDS, BHS interfaces).
- Define target architectures and roadmaps spanning applications, data, integration, infrastructure, cloud, networks and security, ensuring alignment to enterprise and industry reference models.
- Produce and own high level and low level design artefacts, solution blueprints, interface specifications and architecture decision records.
- Make and justify build vs buy and platform selection decisions, balancing operational resilience, cost, vendor landscape and long term maintainability.
Integration & Operational Resilience
- Design integration architectures (APIs, ESB/iPaaS, messaging, event driven patterns) that connect airline, airport, ground handler, government and retail systems.
- Ensure solutions meet stringent availability, performance, failover and business continuity requirements appropriate to a 24/7 safety and security critical operational environment.
- Embed cyber security, data protection and regulatory compliance into the design from the outset (security by design).
Engagement & Delivery Leadership
- Act as the senior technical authority across the engagement lifecycle: bid/pursuit, mobilisation, design, build, test, transition and operations.
- Lead and mentor a team of solution and domain architects, setting design standards and assuring the quality of their work.
- Own technical risk identification, mitigation and escalation; chair design authority and architecture review boards.
- Provide effort, cost and resource estimates to support commercial proposals and project planning.
Stakeholder & Advisory
- Build trusted advisor relationships with airport executives, operational stakeholders, airlines, regulators and technology partners.
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear business value and decision ready options for non technical audiences.
- Contribute to pre sales, proposals and innovation activities, shaping winning, deliverable solutions.
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