System Architect - GNSS Positioning Solutions

About the role

A System Architect plays a leading technical role in developing advanced positioning solutions, deriving system architectures and technical solution concepts from stakeholder and product requirements. The role defines system structures, interfaces, requirements and technical concepts across disciplines, works with component architects and guides development, integration and verification. It reports to the director of platform system architecture and is based in either Thalwil, Switzerland or Tampere, Finland.

Key responsibilities

• Derive system requirements from stakeholder and product requirements
• Create, evaluate and maintain technical solution concepts and system architectures
• Define system-level requirements, interfaces and performance budgets
• Conduct trade-off analyses and technical feasibility assessments
• Align architectural decisions with stakeholders and development teams
• Guide component architects and ensure architectural consistency across subsystems
• Support implementation, integration, verification and validation; identify technical risks and propose mitigations
• Maintain architecture documentation
• Secondary tasks: support product, technology and platform roadmaps; evaluate emerging GNSS technologies; take part in industry collaborations, standardization and technical forums; liaise with external stakeholders, operators, consultants and research organisations; help define systems engineering processes, methods and tools

Required profile

• Master's degree, PhD or equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications, Geodesy or a related field
• Strong and broad GNSS knowledge, including applications
• Experience in requirements engineering and technical specification development
• Fluent English, written and spoken; German is an advantage
• Willingness for occasional travel

Required skills

• Systems engineering and architecture methodologies
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Communication and stakeholder management
• Advantageous: model-based systems engineering (MBSE) and SysML