Senior Solution Architect - Aviation

Location/s: London or any UK Mott MacDonald Office
Relocation supported: Not supported
Recruiter contact: Madeleine Phillips

Mott MacDonald

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.

About the business unit
The vision for our Strategic Advisory portfolio is to “Empower lasting industry transformation”.  We enable clients to navigate complex challenges by combining industry leading technical domain knowledge, digital innovation and consulting excellence with our network of collaborative partners. Our trusted advice ensures clients not only thrive, but remain agile, resilient, and in step in a volatile world. We remain pragmatic and outcomes-focused in shaping and implementing transformational change that delivers demonstrable social, economic and environmental value.

As Senior Solutions Architect, you will play a key role in growing our advisory portfolio by shaping, winning, and delivering new work, focusing on digital in Aviation and related domains. 

You will work on a range of projects, covering digital aspects across airport master planning, new airport developments, to aviation business transformation in the UK and globally. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, your responsibilities will range from development of Digital & Data Strategies, to scoping and specifying a wide range of Airport Operational Systems, through to supporting aviation clients to maximise the value from aviation data.  

A bit about the team 
You will work within the Digital & Data Team within Strategic Advisory Department whilst collaborating with teams within our Transport and Building sectors, both in the UK and worldwide. Some travel to UK and overseas projects may be required.

What you will contribute to the team
•    Provide high value consultancy to customers at the enterprise, programme and project level.
•    Contribute to the develop of the Digital & Data Strategies for aviation clients, through the analysis of the business objectives, required capabilities and future trends. 
•    Develop roadmaps to set out the approach to achieve the business objectives. 
•    Gathering of the business, user and technical requirements for key operational systems, and support their subsequent specification, procurement, delivery and go live.
•    Develop the Solutions Architectures for systems and their integration, within the context of a wider Enterprise Architecture. Solutions in scope could be everything from Airport Operational Systems, Security Systems, Airside Systems through to Data Platforms.  
•    Undertake Solution/Technology Evaluation to assess the best fit solutions to meet different capabilities.  
•    Consideration of Cyber protections required for aviation systems.
•    Facilitate the development of Data Architecture and the definition of interfaces.
•    Manage outstanding delivery of our digital advisory services.
•    Develop trusted relationships with our clients and support the growth of our business by leading and contributing to development of proposals.
•    Support service and people development to help grow and develop our business and team. 

Candidate Specification
Essential
•    Batchelor Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent education and work experience.
•    Extensive knowledge of the application of digital and data in aviation, and of airport operations more generally, is a must.
•    Specific knowledge across two or more of the following areas:
o    A range of aviation operational systems such AODB, FIDS, RMS etc
o    A range of passenger processing and security search systems, including biometrics
o    A range of airside systems including ACDM, and apron systems
o    Aviation data, IATA messaging and data integration 
o    Cyber security and its application to aviation
•    Extensive professional experience, for example, previous work within management consultancy, systems integrator, with a supplier or an in-house role in which you have gained exposure to aviation digital project(s)

Desirable
•    Knowledge of the latest trends across aviation, within aviation digital and more generally across digital and technology. 
•    A strong customer-centric perspective that focuses on outcomes and whole-life value.
•    Knowledge of the test and commissioning of aviation digital solutions and their integration.
•    Strong communication skills (written, verbal and visual) carried through into project deliverables and proposals.  
•    Demonstrable passion for digital and delivering social, environmental, and economic outcomes.

Behaviours / values
•    Understanding and commitment to Mott MacDonald’s PRIDE values (Progress; Respect; Integrity; Drive; Excellence)
•    A self-starter mentality with a desire to apply initiative and new ideas, comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-changing start-up environment.
•    An open minded, confident, collaborative attitude; a strong sense of team spirit; vision driven.
•    Ability to think strategically and laterally, bringing creativity to problem solving.
•    Interest and passion for innovation and technology.

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion 

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working 

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• Pension matched up to 7%   
• Life insurance 
• An annual professional institution subscription   
• Continuous development opportunities – because we want you to thrive  
• Agile/flexible working – because life isn’t 9-5  
• Enhanced parental leave; shared parental leave policies – for parents and care givers  
• Annual bonus scheme  
• Flexible benefits that suit you, including ability to buy/sell annual leave entitlement, cycle to work & interest free season ticket loans 
• Wellbeing support including access to an independent Employer Assistance Scheme, wellbeing champions and access to learning and support resources 
• Access to our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability and parents/carers communities 
• The opportunity to make a difference; learn more about our social outcomes

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