System Architect

Main activities/responsibilities:

• As part of the Offer Team, contribute to the early definition of the product during the offer phase, in order to make a proper evaluation of the Hardware/Software perimeter, related development and related cost. Coordinate the generation of the Technical Dossier for the offer.
• During project execution, as part of the project System Architecture team, define and document the System Architecture of the product to be developed, using the appropriated modeling rules and best practices, and using the recommended tool chain, as per process tailoring decisions taken for the project.
• Monitor technology trends on Hardware & Software functionalities, benchmarking proposals from different vendors.
• Participate to competitor analysis activity, transferring best system design practices to internal team.
• Specify and select the basic Hardware components and Software technologies needed to achieve the targeted system performances and to ensure the best cost/performance trade-off.
• Define and document the functional repartition between Hardware and Software. 
• Ensure a full mapping of the System Requirements related to Hardware, mechanics, optics and industrial constraints to the System architectural design, in cooperation with the System Requirements Engineer.
• Elaborate internal System Requirements related to performance goals or architectural constraints, in cooperation with the System Requirements Engineer.
• Model the System at functional, logical and physical levels, also allocating System Requirements to the Software and Hardware System blocks.
• Participate when requested to the meetings with the customer, supporting the Program Management team, Product Engineer and Software Project Leader on technical discussions.
• Provide governance to the Software team about the different implementation options.
• Support the Functional Safety Management Team and the Functional Safety System Architect in the Technical Safety Concept and Requirements definition.
• Support the Software and Hardware teams during reviews and implementation of critical requirements.
• Estimate System performances, using suitable models, in order to define the optimal Software resources budget.
• With the support of the Product Engineer, define the assembled Bill Of Material of the different variants of the product to be developed, highlighting variant-specific sub-parts / components.
• Ensure the generation of the product End-Of-Line Configuration File.
• In charge of System Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (System FMEA) during the initial phase of project execution.
• Support System defects analysis, using different methodologies (e.g. Fault Tree Analysis FTA).

Key Skills

• Product development standard processes knowledge (Automotive SPICE)
• Quality System knowledge
• Project Planning, Monitoring & Control
• Leadership, international team working & problem solving approach
• Automotive industrialization rules & manufacturing processes
• High capacity of synthesis for all the technical issues
• Requirements management tools (e.g. DOORS)
• Hardware/Software System Architecture design
• Architecture modeling methodologies and tools (Enterprise Architect and Simulink tools, UML and SYSML languages)
• Automotive technical, environmental and homologation standards (JASO, ISO, ECE, etc) knowledge
• Capability to effectively design and use multiprocessor architectures
• Familiarity with techniques to monitor system/modules performances, identify bottlenecks, optimize performances
• Analytic tools (APIS IQ) and methodologies (e.g. FMEA, FTA)
• Operating Systems (OSEK, AUTOSAR)
• Functional Safety standard and design rules (ISO 26262)
• Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence tools)