Platform Service Architect - Aerospace

About This Role

This role involves providing technical leadership and architectural expertise for complex aviation software systems, focusing on defining, designing, and governing secure, scalable, and standards-compliant architectures for aircraft and in-flight systems. The architect ensures compliance with aviation regulations and facilitates integration across multiple aircraft domains and platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define system-level and product-level requirements for aviation software systems, including functional and non-functional aspects
• Translate requirements into technical specifications, architecture designs, and implementation artifacts
• Design and govern system and software architectures meeting DAL-D/E and SAL 1–3 assurance requirements, including domain and data segregation
• Lead architecture design for hosting platforms utilizing cloud-native virtualization technologies
• Ensure compliance with DO-178C and other applicable aviation safety and regulatory standards
• Collaborate with engineering teams, aircraft OEMs, and manufacturers for system integration, validation, and certification activities
• Design and implement secure system architectures, including secure boot, secure firmware updates, encryption, authentication, and secure communication protocols
• Support Agile development teams by participating in PI planning, sprint reviews, and architecture/design reviews
• Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, design documentation, and test strategy reviews
• Act as a technical leader and mentor, guiding teams on best practices and improving engineering processes

Requirements

• Extensive experience designing and implementing large-scale, complex aviation software systems
• Strong knowledge of DO-178C, DAL-D/E, SAL levels, and aviation security standards
• Hands-on expertise in encryption, authentication, access control, threat modeling, secure boot, and secure firmware updates
• Experience with cloud-native virtualization technologies for hosting and platform architectures
• Proficiency in C++, GoLang, Java, and Python
• Experience with Linux kernel programming and embedded/Linux-based systems
• Working knowledge of MySQL, MariaDB, and SQLite
• Strong understanding of aviation software QA processes, including verification, validation, and SQA
• Experience working within SAFe or SCRUM Agile frameworks
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills
• Proven ability to collaborate with global, cross-functional teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field
• 8+ years of experience in aviation software architecture and design

Nice to Have

• Experience with AWS Cloud and cloud-native architectures
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Exposure to architecture and collaboration tools such as Confluence, Visio, Draw.io
• Prior experience working with aircraft OEMs or aviation systems

Skills

* Required skills