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Airbus Commercial Aircraft is looking for a Lead Solution Architect for DECADE-X (f/m) to join our DOPO - Digital For Flying Parts Purchasing department based in Toulouse, France. DECADE-X (Digital ECosystem for Aerospace and DEfence) is a non-profit association officially launched to serve as the first trusted and collaborative industrial digital ecosystem for the sector. Founded by major industry players—including Airbus, Thales, Liebherr, Collins Aerospace, and BoostAeroSpace—it is designed to enable seamless and secure data exchanges across the entire aerospace and defense supply chain. The purpose of DECADE-X is to address critical industry challenges: Supply Chain Connectivity: Enabling trusted data sharing across all levels of the supply chain. Data Sovereignty: Ensuring companies maintain full control over their digital assets. Interoperability: Implementing common standards to allow diverse systems to work together. Inclusivity: Providing access for companies of all sizes, from SMEs to global leaders. Be part of the fantastic journey of Decade-X, designing the future of data exchange for the Aerospace & Defence industry.
Job Responsibility:
Dual-Track Leadership: Provide clear technical and functional direction to teams developing the data space building blocks while simultaneously guiding the implementation of business use cases from a technical and architectural perspective
E2E Coherence & Integration: Ensure the overall integrity and security of the solution, guaranteeing that individual technical components align to deliver a seamless user experience across the data space and addressing the right business needs
Interdependency Management: Proactively identify and manage complex technical and functional interdependencies between various workstreams
Architectural Governance: Actively lead the technical vision to success by ensuring a consistent connection between enterprise architecture, technical architecture, and real-world application at the use case level.
Stakeholder Orchestration: Navigate a multi-stakeholder environment, harmonizing requirements and technical contributions from external industrial partners and the two attached initiatives (Aerospace-X and DECADE-X France)
Requirements:
Complex Ecosystem Management: Proven experience in managing technical roadmaps within complex, multi-partner environments or large-scale industrial consortia.
Architectural Expertise: Strong background in software design, languages, and cloud computing, with the ability to 'see the big picture' of data space solutions.
Strategic Communication: Excellent skills in communicating technical visions to both internal teams and high-level external stakeholders from the Aerospace & Defense sector.
Security & Sovereignty: Familiarity with IT security management and data sovereignty principles essential for critical industry exchanges.
Problem-Solving & Organization: Good organizational skills to manage the friction points between business requirements and technical feasibility.
This position requires a security clearance or will require being eligible for clearance by the recognized authorities.
What we offer:
Financial rewards: Attractive salary, agreements on success and profit sharing schemes, employee savings plan abounded by Airbus and employee stock purchase plan on a voluntary basis.
Work / Life Balance: Extra days-off for special occasions, holiday transfer option, a Staff council offering many social, cultural and sport activities and other services.
Wellbeing / Health: Complementary health insurance coverage (disability, invalidity, death). Depending on the site: health services center, concierge services, gym, carpooling application.
Individual development: Great upskilling opportunities and development prospects with unlimited access to +10.000 e-learning courses to develop your employability, certifications, expert career path, accelerated development programmes, national and international mobility.