Lead SW Architect

Job description

As a Lead Systems Architect – Airports , you will serve as the technical authority for Honeywell’s airport product portfolio, driving architecture strategy, platform evolution, and technology innovation across Airports products such as Next -Generation Visual Docking Guidance Systems (NGVDGS) and Airfield Ground Lighting (AGL) and You will define end-to-end system architecture, lead system, firmware and hardware platform decisions, and guide multidisciplinary engineering teams in delivering scalable, reliable, cyber-secure, and safety-critical airport products.

The role requires deep expertise in systems engineering, hardware, embedded systems, power electronics, sensor-based systems, real-time platforms, and product cybersecurity, combined with strong technical leadership and customer engagement capabilities. Working closely with Product Management, Engineering, Operations, certification stakeholders, suppliers, and airport customers, you will shape technology roadmaps and lead the development and lifecycle evolution of next-generation airport products.

Responsibilities

Systems and Technical Leadership Translate customer, operational, business, and regulatory needs into system, hardware, firmware, software, sensor, algorithms and interface requirements. Own system decomposition, architecture definition, interface management, requirements allocation, and technical traceability. Contribute to product strategy and technology roadmaps while driving architecture decisions that address complex customer and operational needs.

Serve as the technical authority for product development, customer engagements, field escalations, and critical technical decisions. Lead multidisciplinary teams across systems, hardware, firmware, software, algorithms, mechanical engineering, and cybersecurity. Establish architecture governance and lead system, hardware, and design reviews throughout the product lifecycle. Drive verification and validation strategies, technical risk management, DFMEA, FTA, RCA, and reliability engineering activities.

Lead the resolution of complex product and field issues in collaboration with portfolio, engineering, site, and customer teams. Define secure-by-design principles and ensure that cybersecurity is integrated throughout the product development lifecycle. Mentor architects and senior engineers while promoting technical excellence, innovation, reuse, and continuous improvement. Own technical trade-offs for sensor selection, processing platforms, hardware acceleration, communication interfaces, redundancy, environmental performance, and system integration.

Define system performance budgets for detection range, docking accuracy, processing latency, availability, reliability, network bandwidth, power, and thermal performance. Lead integration across sensing, compute hardware, algorithms, displays, networking, mechanical design, and airport operational systems. Lead architectural trade studies, technical risk assessments, supplier technology evaluations, and critical design decisions.

Ensure that product architectures address applicable airport, safety, environmental, electromagnetic compatibility, cybersecurity, and regional regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

YOU MUST HAVE Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical, Electronics, Systems, Aerospace, or a related engineering discipline. Strong proficiency in systems engineering, requirements engineering, architecture methods, and multidisciplinary product development. Proven experience architecting complex, mission-critical, or safety-critical products in airports, industrial automation, automotive, aerospace, transportation, or related domains.

Strong understanding of complex physical systems, hardware platforms, power electronics and control, sensors, industrial communications, real-time systems, embedded systems, safety and cybersecurity. Experience leading cross-functional teams across hardware, mechanical engineering, systems engineering, firmware, software and algorithms, Demonstrated expertise in system decomposition, interface definition, architecture and design reviews, technical risk management, and project estimation.

Exposure to customer communication, technical solutioning with customers Practical experience with DFMEA, FTA, RCA, reliability analysis, verification, and validation. Strong analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder-management, and customer-engagement skills. Exposure to applicable ICAO, FAA, IEC, EN, ISO, cybersecurity, and regional aviation requirements Good to have 15+ years of experience in systems engineering, system development, system architecture and hardware architecture.