Job Description:

Take off with Airbus Helicopters!

Airbus Helicopters is looking for a Project leader for MVC governance & Solution (f/m) to join our Digital Infrastructures & Platforms department, based in Marignane, France.

Join us to shape the future of aeronautics and help protect lives during missions accomplished thanks to our helicopters.

The Marignane site, the 3rd largest industrial site in France, near Marseille and Aix-en-Provence, is undergoing a deep transformation to offer a high-tech, inclusive, and environmentally friendly working environment.

You will have a unique professional experience, at the heart of the manufacturing of our helicopters.

To learn more about our site and our activities: Airbus Helicopters - Marignane

Your future missions:

You will be part of a team ensuring the efficient design, deployment, and evolution of Airbus Helicopters’ Major IT infrastructure to support business needs, while maintaining security, performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. As part of the Architecture & Projects team, you will be involved in a critical strategic initiative designed to guarantee the "Minimum Viable Company" operations in the event of a major infrastructure failure or cyber-attack.. After an assessment phase that has been done, your mission will be to build a resilient, isolated IT ecosystem that ensures our ability to maintain and deliver aircraft under any circumstances.

This role sits at the intersection of Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Business Continuity, requiring a leader who can navigate complex technical layers while managing high-level business expectations.

Your challenges:

1. Technical Implementation

• Isolated Recovery Environment (IRE): Lead the end-to-end implementation of an isolated "buffer zone." This includes defining and deploying the infrastructure architecture: Network isolation, Identity & Access Management, Hosting (Compute/Storage).

• Infrastructure Optimization: Manage the enhancement of existing backup systems to meet the defined Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) for critical applications.

• Tooling: Oversee the deployment of "Instant Restore" application tools to minimize downtime during a transition.

2. Stakeholder Coordination & PSL Integration

• Cross-Functional Alignment: Act as the central point of coordination between various Infrastructure Product Service Lines (PSLs), including Connectivity, Digital Workplace, and Identity & Access Management

• Project Synergy: Ensure seamless integration with parallel infrastructure programs such as R2P (Ransomware & Resilience Program) and the DataCenter Journey.

• Governance: Lead the synchronization of all the stakeholders

3. Business Continuity & Transition Management

• Organizational readiness: implement the end to end process ensuring that when the button is pushed, the business can actually function.

• Switchover Readiness: Address the project's primary complexity: ensuring a seamless user switchover to the MVC environment on "Day 1" of a crisis.

• Business Challenging: Interface with business directorates to challenge and refine their requirements, priorities, and recovery expectations.

Your profile:

• Project leadership: Minimum of 5 years of professional experience managing complex, cross divisional IT infrastructure projects, with a strong focus on Infrastructure deployments (network, server, cloud, or digital workplace):

  • risk analysis

  • priority management

  • planning

  • progress monitoring

  • reporting

  • communication

  • stakeholders management

  • transversal teams animation

• Technical Knowledge: Proven and very good knowledge of all core infrastructure components and technologies (e.g., LAN/WAN, Wi-Fi, virtualization, end-user computing, etc.).

• Soft Skills :

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to translate "Minimum Viable" business needs into technical requirements without "over-dimensioning" the solution.

• Influence & Diplomacy: Experience navigating multi-stakeholder environments and driving consensus between technical teams and business leadership.

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3 Reasons to join us:

Our Values: Six essential values form the core of our company. Defined for employees by employees, our Airbus values shape the DNA of our business, reflecting the unique mix of qualities found in each member of our global family.

Inclusion and diversity: We foster an inclusive and rewarding work environment, where everyone's diversity is valued and respected. An inclusive and diverse workforce is the engine of innovation at Airbus. It makes us unique and contributes to better problem-solving.

Compensation and benefits:

At Airbus, we build the future together and your success is our priority.

Expect a global, competitive, and transparent compensation package (including salaries, bonuses, profit-sharing, participation, and preferred share ownership plan), designed to reward the impact and performance you bring, both individually and collectively.

We invest in your complete well-being: professional development (training, mentoring, international mobility), health coverage, retirement, and a commitment to a supported work-life balance (parental support, flexibility).

And for your daily life, benefits that make a difference:

• A dynamic CSE (Social and Economic Committee) offering many advantages (company restaurant, children's leisure center, associations and sports complex, travel allowances, etc.).

• Transport facilities: Take advantage of our company shuttles or the reimbursement of your annual transport pass.

Our recruitment process:

• Apply online.
• Analysis of your application by the recruitment department.
• Our positions require a security clearance, complete the questionnaire that will be sent to you.
• Conduct recruitment interviews: HR interview and technical interview with your future manager
• Receive the job offer!

Ready to take off? Give a new dimension to your career by applying online now!

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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 Helicopters SAS

Employment Type:

Permanent

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Classe Emploi (France): Classe G14

Experience Level:

Professional

Job Family:

Programme & Project Management

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