Solution Architect - Fleet Performance and Knowledge Management (f/h)

Airbus; Blagnac; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Profit sharing

Employee stock purchase plan

Flexible work options

Job summary

Airbus is seeking a Solution Architect in Toulouse to lead the Fleet Performance and Knowledge Management domain within Digital Customer Services. You will own the product infrastructure, drive architecture decisions, and champion AI integrations across scalable platforms.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, define architectural standards, and mentor teammates while delivering end-to-end solutions for Airbus airline customers over the coming decade.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in digital architecture definition with a proven track record.
• Experience with DDD, EDA, REST APIs and streaming technologies (Kafka).
• Ability to discuss APIs with developers and ROI with stakeholders.
• French and English proficiency; aviation domain knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and document robust technical solutions via architecture dossiers translating business needs.
• Lead PoCs to validate new technologies (AI, NLP, LLMs) before industrialization.
• Direct technical design using SaaS, COTS, and cloud applications.
• Enforce standards for scalable, secure architecture aligned with API and data strategies.
• Participate in all phases of the end-to-end lifecycle: research, design, develop, test, support.

Skills

DDD

REST APIs

Event-Driven

Architectural design

Stakeholder comms

Cloud platforms

AI NLP

Graph databases

Tools

SAP

AWS

GCP

Scaleway

Skywise

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Description:

Airbus Commercial Aircraft is looking for a Solution Architect - Fleet Performance and Knowlegde Management (f/m) to join our Digital - Customer Services department based in Toulouse, France. You will part of a team of 12 people and be a key player in the New Case Management (NCM) portfolio and the Resolve Fleet Issues process. We are building a next-generation platform leveraging Artificial Intelligence (NLP, LLMs), Graph Databases, and Vector Databases for advanced similarity search. We enforce strong architectural concepts like Open-Host Service (OHS) and Published Language (PL) to protect our core systems, ensure cost-efficiency, and master our scalability. Your working environment: Global capital of aeronautics and European capital for space research, Toulouse is a dynamic city in the southwest of France served by an international airport. Ideally located between the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean and close to the Pyrenees mountains, it offers plenty of options for outdoor activities!

How we care for you:

• Financial rewards: Attractive salary, agreements on success and profit sharing schemes, employee savings plan abounded by Airbus and employee stock purchase plan on a voluntary basis.
• Work / Life Balance: Extra days-off for special occasions, holiday transfer option, a Staff council offering many social, cultural and sport activities and other services.
• Wellbeing / Health: Complementary health insurance coverage (disability, invalidity, death). Depending on the site: health services center, concierge services, gym, carpooling application.
• Individual development: Great upskilling opportunities and development prospects with unlimited access to +10.000 e-learning courses to develop your employability, certifications, expert career path, accelerated development programmes, national and international mobility.

Now, let's talk real tech.

We are currently reshaping our Information Systems for Customer Services, and we want to take the time to build things right. We are moving towards scalable, configurable, and market-standard architectures based on Domain-Driven Design (DDD). If you want to pioneer AI integrations and build systems that will support Airbus airline customers for the next decade, keep reading. Working closely with transversal and Product Architects, Project Managers, and Business Analysts, you are the technical owner of the Product's infrastructure, you define the rules of the game

Your challenges:

• Design and document robust technical solutions via architecture dossiers to translate business needs into functional deliverables.
• Explore and innovate by launching Proof of Concepts (PoCs) to explore and validate new technologies (AI, NLP, LLMs) prior to industrialization.
• Lead technical design utilizing a combination of SaaS, COTS integrations, and custom Cloud applications.
• Enforce standards to ensure scalable and secured architecture that adheres to our API, Event-Driven strategies, and enterprise architecture drivers.
• Participate in all phases of the end-to-end application lifecycle, including research, design, development, testing, and support.

Your boarding pass:

• Minimum 8 years of professional experience with a proven track record in digital architecture definition.
• Backbones (LAN/DMZ/Cloud): SAP, AWS (Current core), GCP (Upcoming), Scaleway (Upcoming), Skywise, Kubernetes (Opportunities).
• Patterns: Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Event-Driven Architecture, REST APIs, A2A, MCP and Streaming (Kafka).
• Data & AI: LLMs, NLP, Graph Databases, Vector Databases.
• Adaptive communication: Ability to discuss APIs with developers as well as business value and ROI with stakeholders.
• Languages: Advanced level in French and negotiation level in English (knowledge of airline customer activities such as MROs / Lessors is a big plus).

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company: AIRBUS SAS Employment Type: Permanent ------- Classe Emploi (France): Classe G13 Experience Level: Professional Job Family: Digital

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Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief. Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to [e-mail].

Airbus pioneers sustainable aerospace for a safe and united world. The Company constantly innovates to provide efficient and technologically-advanced solutions in aerospace, defence, and connected services. In commercial aircraft, Airbus offers modern and fuel-efficient airliners and associated services. Airbus is also a European leader in defence and security and one of the world's leading space businesses. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions and services worldwide.

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