Job Details
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 be 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.
Responsibilities
* 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
Qualifications
* 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
* 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
Accommodation & Flexibility
Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part‑time. You can discuss the flexibility needed during your interview and we’ll do our best to accommodate. We can also make adjustments for the selection process – you can share this with your Talent Acquisition Partner if you are invited to interview.
Equal Opportunities
Airbus is a Disability Confident Employer and welcomes all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or religious belief. We will never ask for any monetary exchange in the recruitment process. All applicants will be considered fairly and without bias.
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