[DDMS] Functional Architect Detailed Design

Job Description

A vacancy for a Functional Architect (m/f) has arisen within Airbus Helicopters Information Management directorate in Marignane/Donauworth. The successful applicant will join the Product-Service-Line Physical Products in the End-to-End Develop domain.

Your Challenges

The Functional Architect plays a critical and multifaceted role, serving as the essential leader and bridge across the entire End-to-End (E2E) Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) ecosystem. This position mandates comprehensive leadership, effectively connecting the domains of Information Technology (IT), Methods & Tools, and the core Business functions.

Strategic Roadmap Definition: The Functional Architect is directly responsible for defining and maintaining the Project Functional Roadmap. This involves a continuous process of mediation, ensuring alignment and seamless translation between highly technical implementation teams and the functional requirements articulated by the business stakeholders.

Target Architecture Design: A primary duty is to meticulously design the target functional architecture for the PLM landscape. This design must not only address current needs but also anticipate future scalability and integration demands.

Formal Documentation and Compliance: They are the key author of formal documentation, most notably the Solution Architecture Dossier. Furthermore, the Functional Architect is accountable for ensuring the complete compliance of the proposed solutions with all relevant Company and Airbus Group standards, policies, and regulatory frameworks.

User-Centric Tailoring and Performance: A critical focus is the tailoring of designs to achieve superior user-centricity. This includes establishing, monitoring, and enforcing specific performance metrics and Service Level Agreement (SLA) commitments. A prominent example of this commitment is the stringent 8-day User Management SLA, ensuring that essential access and provisioning tasks are executed within the defined time-frame to maintain operational efficiency.

Robustness and Transformation Safeguarding: During periods of significant transformation or upgrade (e.g., implementing a new PLM solution), the Functional Architect holds the responsibility of safeguarding the functional robustness, integrity, and operational stability of the current AH PLM Backbone. This dual focus - advancing the target architecture while ensuring the current system remains reliable is essential for mitigating business risk.

Your tasks

The domain designs, develops, maintains, and operates all solutions that are part of the end-to-end (E2E) PLM activities for Airbus Helicopters. In this position, you contribute to activities in the scope of the Design & Engineering area and will have to:

• Author and deliver the Solution Architecture Dossier, aggregating and synthesizing inputs from the Large Solution Functional Architecture Dossiers (FADs) to maintain a single, coherent source of truth.
• Proactively define the long-term functional and methodological trajectory of IT products and services, modeling solutions, and performing integrated component design, thus ensuring alignment with the organization's strategy and Methods & Tools standards.
• Provide essential functional expertise throughout the application development lifecycle and deep expertise in Business Processes (including BPR support), collaborating with other Architects and developers to design high-quality functional solutions.

Your skills

Functional Architecture: Expertise in analyzing complex requirements and creating comprehensive Solution Architecture Dossiers using Archimate.

PLM & CAD Domain Mastery: Deep knowledge of 3DExperience (Dassault Systèmes), CATIA V5, VPM, and Windchill, including associated processes.

Methods-Infrastructure Bridge: Solid technical understanding (databases, servers, networks, SQL, Java, C++, Web) to ensure robust and viable functional designs.

Data Governance & Compliance: Knowledge of Data Classification, Export Control, and Military constraints for strict security compliance.

Technical Literacy: Strong grasp of IT principles, frameworks, and regulations for effective cross-team communication.

Analytical & Methodological Mindset: Ability to balance software constraints with user needs, such as performance and SLAs.

Soft Skills & Leadership: Strong team spirit, open communication, "welcome problem" attitude, and functional leadership in a Large Solution environment.

Language Proficiency

Advanced English for global collaboration and negotiation-level French for local stakeholder interface.

Company Information

Company: Airbus Helicopters SAS

Employment Type: Permanent

Classe Emploi (France): Classe G13

Experience Level: Professional

Job Family: Digital

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