Chief Software Architect

Overview

Company:
Ultra Intelligence & Communications

Cyber (UK) Business

Powering Decision

Join the team redefining defense technology. From engineering systems that save lives to leading programs that change the battlefield—find your place in the future of defense.

Our Cyber business unit is at the forefront of pioneering advanced cryptographic and key management solutions, facilitating the confidential exchange of vital information for customers operating at both tactical and strategic echelons. Join our team and participate in the innovation that ensures the highest security and trust worldwide.

The Ultra Engineering function manages a portfolio of specialist capabilities, generating highly differentiated solutions and products by applying electronic, mechanical, and software technologies in demanding and critical environments to meet customer needs.

The Software Engineering function in Ultra supports the software development lifecycle consisting of requirements analysis, design, implementation, test and verification in order to deliver software components into projects and products and supports the deployment and maintenance of software components.

An individual in this will provides technical leadership and oversight of software development processes, architectures, designs and implementations across multiple projects within the Cyber UK Business Unit.

Provide technical leadership and oversight to the software engineering team of 20-30 software engineers. Define and roll-out best practice processes and tools in terms of Software development and ensure close collaboration with the hardware, systems and firmware development teams. Direct embedded and application software definition and requirements analysis, architecture, design, implementation, documentation and testing of embedded and application software for the software element(s) of multi-discipline development programmes, within the Cyber UK Business Unit delivering multiple concurrent research, development and production programmes ranging from tens of £k to several £m.

• Provide technical direction and exert technical influence across multiple projects, such that the optimal approach, architecture, design, code re-use and tool chain are selected.
• Collaborating with various stakeholders, develop software requirements, architectures and designs that satisfy the system and security requirements, and design parameters and constraints, in order that a high quality, modular, compliant and timely approach is taken.
• Works with the software leads on a range of projects ensuring alignment to company processes and standards are maintained.
• Work with software leads, engineering project leads and project managers to create development plans to deliver / demonstrate value as early as possible to the customer.
• Works in a consultative approach across projects to help resolve issues with architecture, coding, or design in a timely manner.
• Work closely with the system architects and the wider systems engineering team to ensure design consistency, design modularity and design re-use, with a focus on technical excellence and process improvement enabling the creation of a high-quality library of re-usable components.
• Apply object-oriented design techniques to enable code re-use and integration with testing frameworks.
• Specify, architect, design, document, review and maintain the software design using UML and SysML modelling tools such as RSA and Enterprise Architect, ensuring the model can be used for accurate code generation as required.
• Develop and maintain knowledge of best practice development and project engineering processes, language standards and tools, e.g. TDD/BDD, Continuous Integration, Dev Ops, Dev Sec Ops , static and run-time analysis tools, C#, C++, Rust standards and secure software development.
• Proposes improvements in tools, processes and techniques that support quality and innovation and make the software development more efficient and effective, where appropriate. Actively contributes to the software community of practice, sharing new tools and techniques to advance the knowledge and efficiency of…