Software Architect - Bristol, United Kingdom - Techniche Global Ltd

Description

Job Description

Techniche Global are supporting an engineering defence contractor to appoint a Software Architect, for projects in the Defence Technology sector. This is a hybrid role, to work 1-2 days on site in Bristol.

Day to day, you'll:

• Deliver software input into a variety of tendering opportunities
• Mobilise and maintain software development teams to deliver against the requirements of successfully bid opportunities
• Act as the product owner for software delivered into in-service projects, research and development, and the wider campaigns, providing guidance to the team on focus and priorities across the portfolio
• Understand and report on software delivery timescales and risk across a software portfolio
• Develop and maintain 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

Essential experience of the Software Architect:

• 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.

Qualifications for the Software Architect:

Our Client values difference and doesn't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Company's Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Contributory Pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Requirements: Due to Security Requirements, we can only consider a sole UK National

Please note that this position is subject to enhanced national security vetting. The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to satisfy Ministry of Defence security requirements (this may include obtaining SC, NNPPI or Developed Vetting (DV) level of security clearances).