Flight Optimisation Solution Engineer, Associate

Overview

As Flight Optimisation Solution Engineer, Associate, you will work closely with air transport industry stakeholders and customers in addressing complex solutions for the airline. You will be accountable for technical pre-sales activities coordinating the activities of multidisciplinary teams across the business unit and providing subject matter expert inputs to customers.

While you will be able and invited to work on the whole range of SITA For Aircraft product and solution’s portfolio, the focus of your role will be on the Flight Optimization products and services

Reporting to the Solution Engineer Senior Manager you will be a part of the group of Solution Designers in the Design, Innovation & Architecture (DIA) team that are responsible for technical pre-sales.  

Are you ready to be part of the future?

What you will do

• Manage the pre-sales process for key flight applications and support our clients with deployment while liaising with our engineering team and business development teams globally, with a focus on the opportunities involving our Flight Optimization products
• Engage with clients about complex key flight applications (e.g., OptiFlight, OptiCruise, OptiSpeed, OptiLevel, eWAS Dispatch/Pilot, Mission Control, FlightFolder) with ease. Advise and promote the SITA for Aircraft products to help with the rollout of innovation
• Contribute to the product development life cycle by bringing key items back to the table on behalf of our clients as well as participating to the brainstorming activities around new products and/or product features
• Impact product evolution - Contribute to the enterprise architecture processes aiming at the evolution of the global SITA FOR AIRCRAFT platform.
• Support technically RFP/RFI/RFQ processes, and produce the necessary technical material; coordinating with the various teams involved in SITA FOR AIRCRAFT 
• Coordinate the product & engineering discussions in case of multi-product complex customer solutions to ensure that the impacts are understood, road mapped and committed by the various parties.
• Provide technical and business analysis support during the Product Gate Process (product initiation phase) and for multi-product, cross-function data integrations and enablers.
• Develop and run client workshops, manage activities as required to fully enable the customer to realize and implement the benefits of SITA FOR AIRCRAFT products.
• Contribute to the development of regional or local partnerships with external suppliers/partners in both industry and academia.

Qualifications

Who you are

•  An experienced technical pre-sales professional with a higher education (Master, Engineer, PhD) degree in Software and/or System design, with a solution background in Operational Research and multi-dimensional optimization problems as well as proven experience in the airline industry or aircraft domain
• 4 years of experience in the Airline IT/TechOps, or with an OEM, dealing with flight data management or fleet optimization in related Air Transport Industry domain
• Experienced in software and system design including Cloud and Service Oriented architectures, capable of understanding complex technical workflows and designing distributed processing architectures while also controlling the possible side effects and degraded scenarios
• Knowledge of other optimization techniques and algorithms beyond linear programming.
• Experience in the aviation industry or other transportation domains.
• Strong knowledge in flight planning systems, airline operations and related areas.
• Understanding of software development methodologies, such as Agile or DevOps.
• A reasonable understanding of the Python programming language is expected.
• Understanding of the nature of the information contained in QAR/DAR/SAR data.
• Understanding of Flight Dynamics, including but not limited to, airline operational procedures, flight domains, flight envelope, climb profiles, …
• Understanding of aircraft performance and the key elements that influence it.
• Reasonable understanding of Air Navigation principles and the Pilot Operations in coordination with ATC as well as Dispatch and other Airline Operations stakeholders

What we offer

SITA’s workplace is all about diversity: many different countries and cultures are represented in our workforce, and colleagues who’ve been working here for decades collaborate with those just out of college and early in their careers. SITA is a place of change and constant improvement, where we're always pushing ourselves to find better ways of doing things: smarter, quicker, easier, for us and our customers and for their customers too.

And we offer all the good stuff you’d expect like holidays, bonus, flexible benefits, medical policy, pension plan and access to world class learning.

Welcome to SITA

SITA is the world’s leading specialist in air transport communications and information technology. We don’t just connect the global aviation industry. We apply decades of experience and expertise to address almost every core business, operational, baggage, and passenger process in air transport.

We design, build, and support technology solutions all with one vision to create easy air travel every step of the way. As an organization, we cover 95% of all international air travel destinations and work with over 2,800 air transport and government customers in every corner of the globe. Are you ready to explore the opportunities?

Keywords: Solution Design, Aviation, Engineer