Software Architect

Software Architect - Active DV Clearance required
Bristol/remote
6 months initially
£70 - £90 per hour - inside IR35

As Software Architect you will be responsible for:
• Delivering software input into a variety of tendering opportunities.
• Mobilising and maintaining software development teams to deliver against the requirements of successfully bid opportunities.
• Acting as Product owner for software delivered into in-service projects, R&D and the wider campaigns. Providing guidance to the team on focus and priorities across the portfolio.
• Understanding and reporting on software delivery timescales and risk across a software portfolio.
• Developing and maintaining software architecture for our software solutions. Working closely with the System Architect and Programme technical lead to integrate software solutions into the wider system architecture.
• Driving agile delivery within the focus area software delivery activities.
• Ensuring that all stakeholders including management and technical staff are clear of the design, architecture and how software will be delivered.
A Software Architect with experience of delivering significant software bids and building and leading software development teams to meet requirements.

Required Experience
• Successful delivery of software architecture to control complex distributed networked systems.
• Mobilisation and co-ordination of teams of multi-disciplinary engineers to deliver complex systems.
• Knowledge / Experience of software architecture in at least one of the following areas:
• RF telecommunications,
• waveforms,
• OSI model,
• SIGINT,
• EW
• Driving the implementation of Agile development methodologies.
• C, C++, Python and Database architecture.

Desirable Experience
• XML
• Networked systems
• JICD
• Restful and/or RPC API
• Library agnostic code development
• Geospatial engines
• Cloud containers / Docker
• VHDL
• VERILOG Experience with SDR architecture
• OPEN CPI Application/Component and Platform development
• Experience of Dev Ops

Skills And Attributes
• Excellent communication skills both oral and written
• Ability to work autonomously and use initiative
• Self-motivated and a quick learner
• Attention to detail
• Driven to produce quality work
• Willingness and ability to learn new skills