About This Role
This Solutions Architect role is central to designing, defining, and delivering engineering solutions for Hitachi Rail's Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) systems. Based in Cairo, the architect will contribute to complex projects in Egypt and collaborate with international teams, serving as the main technical interface between customers and internal teams.
Responsibilities
- Ensure global consistency of engineering processes, practices, and tools
- Organize co-engineering and approve lower-level solution elements' or components' engineering plans, including those flown down to subcontractors and partners
- Thoroughly review and analyze RFPs from a technical perspective to understand customer requirements and identify any gaps
- Design comprehensive, innovative, and cost-effective solutions tailored to specific customer needs in the Urban Mass Transit sector
- Work closely with the Capture Lead (Sales Department), Bid Manager (Offers Department), and engineering teams to create integrated bid responses
- Collaborate with international departments such as Strategy & Marketing, Engineering, and Offers to ensure seamless communication and solution alignment
- Produce and deliver four key technical outputs to the Bid Manager: Requirements Compliance, Design Validation (DVa), Technical Offer, Engineering Effort Estimate (EEE)
- Define solutions with specification documentation (during design, development, and validation phases) as writer, reviewer, and/or approver
- Manage Requirements and Customer needs
- Create system specification documents and interface specification documents
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather, analyze, and document system requirements
- Apply systems engineering principles and methodologies to guide the development and integration of complex systems
- Collaborate with the Architect in defining the physical and logical architectures of Automatic Fare Collection systems
- Create and manage system-level design documentation, including block diagrams, interface specifications, and system integration plans
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in technical solution design, preferably in the mass transit or transportation technology industry
- Proven experience in RFP analysis, technical proposal development, and costing of engineering efforts
- Demonstrated experience in systems engineering
- Experience in deployment of complex, critical systems and in complex system integration with third-party components
- Experience in Web Oriented Architecture solutions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
