Systems Architect

ALTEN Technology USA•Auburn Hills, MI

About The Position

ALTEN Technology USA is seeking a Systems Architect to ensure system design feasibility against quality, cost, and schedule objectives. The role focuses on standardizing and reusing functions and components to improve time to market and control development costs. The Systems Architect coordinates discipline referents, leads key system technical reviews, oversees architecture activities and lifecycle through PLM tools, and tracks progress toward the desired system product. The position also provides system-level technical status to the project manager. The role requires expertise in functional architectures and connected automotive services, the ability to translate high-level client needs into vehicle functional groups, and familiarity with safety requirements, configuration management, and documentation for complex systems. Knowledge of vehicle functions and electronic architecture modeling is advantageous. ALTEN Technology USA is part of the global ALTEN Group and describes a workplace offering mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. Candidates selected for employment must successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening.

Requirements

Mastery of functional architectures.
Mastery of connected services related to automobiles, such as authentication, profile, activation, and xcall.
Ability to understand high-level functional needs and identify functional groups within a vehicle.
Ability to break down client needs into functional groups.
Ability to understand safety requirements in a functional vehicle architecture.
Ability to apply editorial rigor in English.
Ability to enforce configuration management among system actors and managers.
Knowledge of document structures associated with designing complex systems subject to operational safety and traceability requirements.
Successful candidates must complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.

Nice To Haves

Five years in functional or system design in a multidisciplinary environment.
Knowledge of vehicle functions, including complex mechanical functions such as engines, gearboxes, braking systems, and ADAS.
Knowledge of modeling electronic architecture using a systems engineering tool.

Responsibilities

Ensure system design feasibility according to the core technology project's quality, cost, and schedule objectives.
Standardize and maximize reuse of functions and components or parts to optimize time to market and development cost.
Oversee and coordinate activities of discipline referents, including analyst engineers, system designers, and component leaders.
Organize and conduct system technical reviews, including System Requirements Review, Systems Functional Review, and Preliminary Design Review.
Organize and control system architecture activities and results through PLM tools, and manage the system lifecycle.
Monitor and control progressive achievement of the desired system product through architectural views and data.
Provide system-level technical status to the project manager.
Apply and explain configuration management to project actors and managers.