Solution Architect

Location: Singapore, Singapore

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Thales established its presence in Singapore in 1973 to support the expansion of aerospace-related activities in the Asia-Pacific region. Throughout the last four decades, the company grew from strength to strength and is today involved in the primary businesses of Aerospace (including Air Traffic Management), Defence & Security, Ground Transportation and Digital Identity & Security. Thales today employs over 2,100 people in Singapore across all its business areas.

We deliver identity and biometric solutions to customers worldwide especially for public sector in APAC regions. Depending on the scale and requirements of each project, activities can range from pre-sales support, requirement gathering, solution design, development, validation, deployment, integration to support & maintenance.

We sometimes work at customer site to integrate and test several software components, to ensure success customer acceptance and smooth go-live. We also work closely with customer to get detailed requirements, perform customer acceptance, demo, training, etc.

Together, we grow through several challenging projects each year, internal knowledge sharing, job rotation, on-the-job training and self-study.

As a Solution Architect for the Singapore Delivery Center, you will be the technical authority for customer solutions and ensure implementation and on-time delivery. You will be the main technical interface who will directly support customers in APAC region and design solutions that will secure the digital lives of millions of people.

**Responsibilities**:

- Analyze customer requirement and identify the best solution.
- Design solution architecture of customization, component, solution deployment and integration.
- Propose technical solution, tool and technology that influence management decision for customer requirement and project.
- Ensure technical consistency of the projects by resolving any constraints.
- Defines module, task and sub-task of designed feature.
- Present the technical solution roadmap and task plan to internal team and the customer.
- Provide workload estimation of customization, feature, component and task levels.
- Write software requirement specification.
- Write software detailed design specification.
- Develop quality and secure code for supporting biometric solution, which can be customization of product or develop new module/feature from scratch.
- Forecast, inform risk/concern on task, team or project level and propose mitigation plans.
- Support, investigate, and propose solution/workaround and bug fix for production issue.
- Create, influence, reinforce and improve development/delivery process and standard using in the Singapore Delivery Center.
- Code review, coach and influence team for high-quality best-practice clean and secure code.
- Conduct knowledge sharing of component/solution to local support team.
- Coordinate with teams and stakeholders globally to gain knowledge and support technical analysis.
- Actively support relevant teams during the pre-sales phase, which includes but not limit to technical analysis, technical feasibility analysis, solution design, POC design and development, etc.

**Knowledge, Skills and Experience**:

- At least **8 years **’ working experience including at least 3 years of experience in software architect role with
- Strong interest on performance or security.
- Web technologies (HTTP, RestAPI, HTML, XML Schema, JSP, SOAP, JBoss, etc)
- Security concepts (OWASP, SSL, TLS, KMS, PKI, etc)
- Programming: Java, Junit, Bash script (Linux)
- Query and DAO: Oracle, MySQL
- Any queue provider (JMS, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, etc)
- Ability to coach, influence and explain to stakeholders from various technical background
- Team player
- It is a plus if you have experience and understanding of
- Enterprise tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.)
- Customer facing
- Government or public sector related projects
- Support production issue
- Due to government project requirements, Singapore citizenship is highly preferred.