Airbus - Software Architect

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne

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* Job Description:

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* ** SECURITY CLEARANCE* :
* Eligibility to gain SC Security Clearance

** TRAVEL REQUIRED* :
* Couple of times a year

** LOCATION* :
* Newcastle Upon Tyne or Guildford

** TYPE* :
* Full time

** WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU*
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* ** 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 Dev Sec Ops

* 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…