Systems Architect

Overview

As an Architect for Systems or Software, you shape the end-to-end geospatial and satellite data solutions. You will translate goals into robust designs across the full lifecycle, ensuring security by design and alignment with government projects. You collaborate with a multidisciplinary team within an AGILE environment to deliver secure geospatial software for ISR applications. This role offers cross-functional impact, opportunities with Airbus Defence and Space, and exposure to cutting-edge geospatial tech.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salary
• annual profit share
• contributory pension
• hybrid working
• flexible working around core hours
• free onsite parking

Responsibilities

• Translate goals into architecture for geospatial solutions with a balance of performance, security, reliability and compliance
• Establish end-to-end traceability from requirements to design using MBSE (SysML/UML)
• Drive architectural vision through stakeholder engagement and information gathering
• Promote reuse and evolvability of components to meet future demands
• Collaborate in a multi-functional, AGILE team to deliver secure software products

Key requirements

• Experience designing architectures for complex systems in shared services, SOA or microservices environments
• Hands-on understanding of security by design and working under security/cybersecurity/compliance constraints
• Experience with agile/scrum development; willingness to contribute across the lifecycle
• Nice-to-have: AWS cloud services experience
• Awareness of government/MOD project contexts and ISR solutions

• Curiosity about system patterns and evolution
• Proactive in raising questions and identifying red flags in architecture
• Creative problem-solving and hands-on willingness
• MBSE (SysML/UML) modeling
• Geospatial software architecture and satellite data processing
• Service-Oriented Architecture and microservices

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