Airbus

Functional Architect, DDMS

Airbus

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Marignane • 🇫🇷 France

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Balance technological opportunities with business (process) requirements.
  • Ensure the overall design — including technical requirements, principles, and models — that guides the design of IT product solutions, aligned with Enterprise Architecture guidelines, in close collaboration with technology specialists.
  • Ensure the integration of solutions across systems, applications, and platforms to achieve business objectives.
  • Ensure consistency across IT products.
  • Design, integrate, and implement IT solutions from a technical perspective and ensure that technical solutions, procedures, and development models are up to date and compliant with standards.
  • Act as a visionary to proactively help define the direction of future IT products and services and validate product designs.
  • Collaborate with other architects, systems analysts, and developers to deliver the highest-quality solutions using innovative technologies.
  • Define models, including solution blueprints, to guide decisions related to these solutions.
  • Participate in all phases of the application development lifecycle, including research and design, development, testing, implementation, and support.
  • Help align the architecture strategy with the organization’s business objectives and long-term IT strategic planning.
  • Ensure the technical/functional design of the application and infrastructure components of new solutions based on the defined functional design.
  • Provide business process expertise to the Lead Solution Architect, support change management and transformation, enable functional improvements and technology-driven business process redesign, and assist architects during projects.
  • Adapt solutions and propose technical approaches in response to business needs.
  • Identify technical gaps in tools in accordance with the functional guidelines defined by the Lead Solution Architects.
  • Coordinate technical maturation phases during business explorations.
  • Propose technical improvements to the architecture, both technical and functional.
  • Participate in the technical interface with software/application clients, in collaboration with Methods & Tools teams.
  • Promote collaborative work and an end-to-end approach to out-of-the-box PLM solutions.
  • Encourage cross-functional collaboration among architects.
  • Promote technical co-working on proposed solutions.

Requirements

  • Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Information Technology or a related field.
  • Strong IT background (functional and technical architecture, development).
  • Comprehensive knowledge of Digital Technologies.
  • Proficiency in Agile/Scrum project management methodologies.
  • Advanced level of English and French.
  • Demonstrated learning agility, entrepreneurial spirit, and innovative, out-of-the-box thinking.
  • Leadership skills with the ability to drive multidisciplinary teams.
  • Adaptability in a fast-paced environment.
  • Value-oriented mindset with the ability to assess different approaches and ideas.
Benefits
  • Financial rewards: Attractive salary, performance-based bonuses and profit-sharing schemes, employee savings plan with company contributions from Airbus, and an optional employee share purchase plan.
  • Work / Life Balance: Additional days off for special occasions, the option to transfer holidays, and a staff council offering many social, cultural and sporting activities and other services.
  • Wellbeing / Health: Supplementary health insurance coverage (disability, incapacity, death). Depending on the site: health services center, concierge services, gym, carpooling app.
  • Individual development: Excellent upskilling opportunities and development prospects with unlimited access to over 10,000 e-learning courses to enhance your employability, certification paths, expert career tracks, accelerated development programs, and national and international mobility.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
functional architecturetechnical architectureapplication development lifecycleAgileScrumDigital Technologiessolution designintegration of solutionstechnical designbusiness process redesign
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationadaptabilitylearning agilityentrepreneurial spiritinnovative thinkingvalue-oriented mindsetcross-functional collaborationproactive problem-solvingchange management
Certifications
Master’s degree in Information Technology