Senior Sensor Fusion & Data Architecture Lead – LIFT Program

Job Description

Overview

Our team is hiring a Senior Sensor Fusion & Data Architecture Lead to join our growing team to work on one of the most important Canadian airport projects. The successful candidate will be the authoritative lead for operational and engineering data across the program. This role requires deep expertise in OT and Industrial IIoT architectures edge computing cloud architectures and ability to drive data transformation for operational efficiency. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring that data produced by operational technology (OT) infrastructure systems and IT platforms is intentionally designed fit for purpose and aligned to the airports event driven and digital twin strategy and enabling system of record platforms (e.g. SCADA PLCs).

The LIFT Program represents a onceinageneration airport transformation project spanning terminals utilities airside landside and core operational systems. This role exists to define structure and govern how data is produced classified transported and consumed. AtkinsRéalis vast experience of projects and infrastructure operations across key markets provides the successful candidate a unique opportunity to contribute to one of the most important airport projects in Canada.

Role Alignment:

• Connect people data and technology to transform the worlds infrastructure and energy systems.

• Align with AtkinsRéalis mission to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

This position is based at our Project Office in the west end ofToronto Ontariorequiring the candidate to be in office Monday to Friday weekly (5 days a week).

This role will provide foundational data & system design shaping how the airport produces and uses data for the next 20 years. It will bridge engineering and digital strategy foundational to the airports success.

The Senior Sensor Fusion & Data Architecture Lead is the authoritative lead for operational and engineering data across the LIFT Program.

• Define airport Programs of Requirements (PoRs) for metering utilities OT and sensorproducing systems.

• Classify types and classes of data produced by airport systems (OT IT infrastructure facilities).

• Establish standards for what data should be centralized in airport corporate platforms (Data Hub) versus what should remain local to systems of record.

• Work closely with enterprise and solution architects designing EventDriven Architecture (EDA) to ensure that event models data frequency fidelity latency and semantics are suitable for airport operations.

• Act as the bridge between engineering teams OT vendors data platforms and analytics teams.

Your role

Program of Requirements & Data Design Leadership:

• Develop Programs of Requirements (PoRs) for: Utility and energy metering; Central utilities plant (CUP); Environmental asset and condition monitoring; OT and industrial control system data outputs.

• Define data requirements upfront at design stage not retrofitted postconstruction.

• Ensure PoRs clearly articulate: What is measured; Why it is measured; Expected accuracy resolution and frequency; Where the data terminates (system of record vs enterprise platforms).

Data Classification & Governance (OT/IT):

• Establish a practical classification model for airport data including Operational vs analytical data; Realtime vs nearrealtime vs historical; Control data vs telemetry vs events.

• Define data ownership boundaries explicitly identifying: Data that must remain within OT systems (e.g. PLC/SCADA); Data that should be published to corporate platforms (Data Hub analytics digital twin).

• Partner with enterprise data governance to ensure privacy security and lifecycle controls are embedded by design.

EventDriven Architecture Alignment:

• Work directly with architects designing EventDriven Architecture (EDA) to:

  • Validate which data points are suitable as events.

  • Define event semantics structure and metadata.

  • Ensure publishing frequency aligns with operational reality (not theoretical models).

  • Translate physicalworld measurements into digitally meaningful events that downstream systems can consume reliably.

Sensor Fusion & Operational Insight:

• Lead identification of data points of interest across people assets infrastructure and systems.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to determine: What needs to be measured; fidelity; operational and business outcomes.

• Combine peoplebased sensing machine data and enterprise context to enable: Reliability engineering Predictive maintenance Capacity and flow optimization Digital twin and simulation use cases.

Partnering & Vendor Engagement:

• Serve as the airports technical authority on data access and structure with OEMs and system vendors.

• Lead discussion regarding data outputs Integration constraints Data ownership and access rights.

• Ensure vendorprovided systems align with the airports longterm architecture.

Prototyping Validation & Value Proof:

• Rapidly prototype analytics simulations or models to: Test data sufficiency Validate assumptions Demonstrate operational value.

• Produce demoready insights that inform investment decisions and program roadmaps.

About you

• Handson experience with OT/IoT/industrial or asset systems.

• Experience working with spatiotemporal sensor or timeseries data.

• Enterprise data and systems architecture in complex operational environments.

• Realtime and streaming data architectures.

• Cloud edge architectures (Azure strongly preferred).

• Systemofsystems design (not singleplatform optimization).

• Strong Python and SQL capabilities.

Highly Desirable Experience:

• Transportation aviation smart infrastructure energy or utilities.

• Digital twin simulation or agentbased modelling.

• Eventdriven platforms and streaming ecosystems.

• Applied data science or ML in operational environments.

• Vendor negotiation and dataaccess governance.

Personal Attributes:

• Systems thinker who sees measurement as a design problem not an afterthought.

• Comfortable operating between engineering IT architecture and business stakeholders.

• Pragmatic: understands data strategy (centralization and data democratization).

• Able to lead without formal authority in a matrix program.

• Clear communicator who can translate physical system capabilities into digital strategies.

*Expected compensation for this role is between Pay Range $ 100 200 à 131 700 annually. Base salaries are determined according to several parameters like skills experience and potential impact on the role. Internal and external competitiveness are also taken into account in our offers.

Rewards & benefits

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About AtkinsRéalis

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