Lead Solution Architect – Airports
Job Description:
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,networksand security, ensuring alignment to enterprise and industry reference models.
Produce and own high-level and low-level design artefacts, solution blueprints, interfacespecificationsand architecture decision records.
Make and justify build-vs-buy and platform selection decisions, balancing operational resilience, cost, vendorlandscapeand long-term maintainability.
Integration & Operational Resilience
Design integration architectures (APIs, ESB/iPaaS, messaging, event-driven patterns) that connect airline, airport, ground-handler,governmentand retail systems.
Ensure solutions meet stringent availability, performance,failoverand business-continuity requirements appropriate to a 24/7 safety- and security-critical operational environment.
Embed cyber security, dataprotectionand 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,transitionand 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,mitigationand escalation; chair design authority and architecture review boards.
Provide effort,costand resource estimates to support commercial proposals and project planning.
Stakeholder & Advisory
Build trusted-advisor relationships with airport executives, operational stakeholders, airlines,regulatorsand technology partners.
Translate complex technical concepts into clear business value and decision-ready options for non-technical audiences.
Contribute to pre-sales,proposalsand innovation activities, shaping winning, deliverable solutions.
Skills & Experience
Essential
Experience:Significant experienceas a solution or enterprise architect on large, complex technology programmes, with demonstrable delivery in the aviation,airportor wider transport / critical-infrastructure sector.
Domain knowledge: Strong understanding of airport operational systems and the IT/OT landscape - e.g. AODB, RMS, FIDS, BHS, CUPPS/CUSS/CUTE, BRS, A-CDM, and passenger flow / biometric processing.
Architecture breadth: Proven, hands-on architecture across applications, integration, data, cloud (Azure / AWS / GCP), infrastructure,networksand cyber security.
Integration: Deep experience designing integration and interoperability between heterogeneous systems and multiple stakeholders, including industry standards such as IATA messaging and relevant ACI/IATA guidance.
Resilience & security: Track record of designing for high availability,resilienceand security in mission-critical, 24/7 operational environments.
Leadership: Ability to lead multi-disciplinary architecture teams and govern design quality through architecture review and design authority forums.
Communication: Excellent stakeholder management,facilitationand written/verbal communication skills, comfortable engaging at C-level.
Desirable
Recognised architecture certification (e.g. TOGAF) and/or cloud architecture certifications.
Familiarity with airport-specific standards and frameworks (IATA, ACI, A-CDM, NDC, biometric / Digital Travel Credential initiatives).
Experience of large-scale terminal opening,expansionor greenfield airport technology programmes.
Exposure to managed-services / systems-integration (MSI) operating models and transition to operations.
Knowledge of OT, SCADA, IoT and building-management integration within an airport campus.
Qualifications
Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, InformationSystemsor a related discipline (or equivalent professional experience).
Relevant architecture,cloudand/or security certifications are strongly preferred.
Key Competencies
Strategic and systems thinking · design leadership and technical rigour · stakeholder influence · commercial awareness · risk management · collaboration across multi-vendor teams · resilience under operational pressure · customer focus.
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