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Software Architect

Airbus · Newcastle upon Tyne

Job Description:

SECURITY CLEARANCE: Eligibility to gain SC Security Clearance

TRAVEL REQUIRED: Couple of times a year

LOCATION: Newcastle Upon Tyne or Guildford (60% of your working week must be office based)

TYPE: Full time

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU

  • Financial Reward: Competitive salary, annual profit share, contributory pension, share options, car leasing scheme, free onsite parking, tax-free technology scheme, discounted shopping and much more

  • Work / Life Balance: 37 hour week, flexible working around core hours, hybrid working, up to 2 additional days per month as TOIL.

There are no core hours on Friday afternoons. Employees may use this flexibility at their discretion, provided they fulfil their contractual working hours and meet business needs (such as urgent deadlines or client requirements)

  • Personal Development: Personalised development plan and unlimited access to 10,000+ E-learning courses, internal mobility including international opportunities

  • Health & Wellbeing: Wellbeing benefits (including 24/7 online GP and mental health support), Employee Assistance Programme, discounted family health / dental insurance / eye tests, cycle-to-work scheme, on-site canteen and coffee shop, lunchtime pilates

  • Family and Caregiving: Life assurance, enhanced pay for parental leave (23 weeks at 100% pay), adoption / shared parental / caregiving leave

  • Inclusive Environment: Wellbeing room, Multi-faith room, Employee Representative Groups (Gender, LGBTQ+, International, Generational, Disability, Social & Cultural Diversity, Neurodiversity) 

About the role....

Are you an inquisitive Software Architect who loves collaborating and designing with the team? Interested in working on complex, mission-critical systems? Happy rolling up your sleeves to find creative solutions, untangle historic situations and uphold security regulations? Then we’d love to hear from you

 This is a marvellous role for someone who considers security by design from the start, this is important as you will be working on Government, MOD, Met Police and Ministry of Justice  projects. You will being joining a friendly multi functional team of professionals (testers, developers, lead engineers, project managers, product owner) who create cloud-based Secure Geospatial Software in an AGILE scrum environment 

How you will contribute to the team 

  • Collaborative practices like pairing, swarming and mobbing

  • Translate business goals and high-level requirements into robust software architectures, balancing performance, security, reliability, and compliance

  • Design scalable, flexible, secure and maintainable architectures for complex geospatial systems

  • Collaborate with development teams to select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and patterns

  • Produce clear, structured documentation covering architecture decisions and design rationale

  • Establish and maintain architectural traceability from business requirements through to solution design. 

  • Contribute to and support technical and architectural reviews

About you?

  • Someone who brings ideas to the table and holds your hand up with questions or spotting red flags within architecture or the full software lifecycle

  • Strong experience designing and architecting cloud-native solutions using Kubernetes (K8s), with a focus on microservices and asynchronous, event-driven architectures. 

  • Strong experience designing and owning software architectures for complex systems, preferably in a cloud environment with an awareness of DevSecOps

  • Builds positive working relationships and contributes to a respectful, collaborative team environment.

  • Is comfortable providing and receiving feedback within a team environment whilst also owning software architecture for complex systems

  • Experience working in environments with security, cybersecurity, reliability, and compliance constraints

Not a 100% match? No worries! Airbus supports your personal growth with customised development solutions.
 

How we can support you

Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need and we’ll always do our best to accommodate your request. 

Please let us know if you need us to make any adjustments for the selection process – you can share this with your Talent Acquisition Partner if you are invited to interview. Examples may include (but not exclusive to) accessible facilities; auxiliary aids; room layout, etc. Any information disclosed will be treated in the strictest confidence.

As a Disability Confident Employer, Airbus UK will offer an interview to any applicant that considers themselves to have a disability or long-term condition under the Equality Act 2010 and meets the minimum criteria of the role (as set out in the job advert). To ‘opt in’, just select the option during your application submission and your application will be considered accordingly.

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 Defence and Space Limited

Employment Type:

Permanent

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Experience Level:

Professional

Job Family:

Software Engineering <JF-EN-EK>

By submitting your CV or application you are consenting to Airbus using and storing information about you for monitoring purposes relating to your application or future employment. This information will only be used by Airbus.
Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to [email protected].

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

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