Solutions Architect

About Kafaat:

Kafa’at is a premier company in providing HR services including training, development and management consulting in Saudi Arabia. Since its establishments, Kafa’at has been thriving the spirit of productivity and excellence in a highly competitive market. The availability of specialized skilful staff, state of-the art infrastructure and large investment flow, the company has the capability to create comprehensive solutions and development for our partners needs in the areas where it works.

Client for Kafaat is looking for Solutions Architect:

Job Purpose:

The physical security of sites, events, airports and energy production is a key issue for Thales customers. It relies on a wide range of capabilities (information systems, networks, telecoms, infrastructure, civil engineering, etc.).

The projects associated with the implementation of security and safety systems are highly innovative, international and multi-industry in nature, and require in-depth technical knowledge of the solutions and components as well as a real mastery of the systems aspect of the systems needed to successfully complete the projects.

The role of PRS is to ensure the overall implementation of these projects by providing real added value based on products (SDP-Security Digital Platform) but also on control of the overall engineering processes required for their deployment.

Key Responsibilities:

In this context, the role of the security systems architect is to

Supporting customers in their technical choices and promoting Thales solutions (SDP, etc.)

Describing and structuring the architectures of future security systems in coordination with project teams and engineering teams.

Acting as Design Authority.

Coordinating internal and external partners to achieve a coherent vision and architecture.

Participating in the costing of technical solutions and ensuring their competitiveness.

Overseeing the choice of technical solutions in a context of innovation that can extend into the next fifteen to thirty years.

Communicating solutions in support of PRS strategy, sales management and domain management.

Participating and guiding technical policy.

Qualifications and Skills:

Bachelors in Electrical / Electronic / Computer / IT or relevant Engineering

15 years of Experience on various Systems Engineering life cycle activities, and out of which 5 years of Experience working in different Technical Management positions.

A structured approach to systems architectures and associated modelling tools.

Wide-ranging technical skills in the fields of information systems, sensors, end-effectors and network, radio and operator managed services infrastructure.

A real understanding of the digital technologies deployed in the Cloud

The ability to analyze operational needs and employment scenarios and to extract technical requirements from them

The ability to manage the technical contributors as well as the various GBUs, assembly and integration partners.

An innovative vision and a 15-year solution-building perspective, while maintaining a pragmatic and iterative approach to system delivery throughout the period.

A strong capacity for conviction that will support and lend credibility to Thales' strategic statements in this field.

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