Software Solution Architect - Woking, United Kingdom - Roke Manor Research Limited

Description

About Roke
Roke clients come to us with niche, challenging problems that matter to their business, looking for experts to develop solutions by applying their experience and knowledge in novel, creative ways.
Our projects range from early feasibility studies, through the entire engineering lifecycle, to multi-year support for production-grade software systems, with engineers switching between these in line with their career aspirations and development plans.

Software Architect
This opportunity would suit software professionals looking for a role that will provide the following challenges.

• Work in a tech-agnostic environment with exposure to a broad range technologies which will enhance and broaden your existing expertise.
• Understand requirements expressed in Defence domain language and architectural frameworks, and translate into technical requirements and architectures suitable for implementing by Software Engineers.
• Form part of the wider Roke Engineering community with learning and development opportunities that will exceed your expectations.
• Your broad technical, research and software development background will allow you to rapidly understand new systems and domains, and prototype systems based on your research.
  

Software Architect Areas of Responsibility/Tasks:

• Research and development of novel software solutions
• Define and develop the architecture and delivery of small to large-scale software engineering projects
• Providing guidance, mentoring and coaching to other engineers across the business
  

Key Skills

• Proven experience as a software architect and developer in more than one software language.
• Demonstrable experience of defining robust engineering management plans and leading teams to follow them. These plans include use of continuous integration and test driven development.
• Familiarity using Agile delivery methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.
• Proven experience in taking research outputs (e.g. data science experimentation) and turning into robust software products.
• Experience of implementing solutions using middleware technologies.
• Experience of designing both plug-in and micro-service architectures.
• Experience of designing software based on different data architectures (e.g. relational, NoSQL, Big Data, streaming data analytics)
• Experience of designing software in a variety of deployment settings included on-device, on-premises and cloud.
• Ability to clearly express design decisions in text and graphical formats such as UML or Archimate.
  

Applications should demonstrate

• A demonstrable passion for making high quality software
• An ability to pick up new tools, frameworks and languages fast
• An ability to analyse problems and communicate well thought through solutions
• An ability to develop new solutions where no pre-existing solution fits
• A willingness and capability to work as part of and lead diverse teams
  

Your Roke Tech Stack
Languages: Python, Java, JavaScript
Platforms: Linux, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitLab, AWS, Vue, React, Android

Why you should join Roke

We have a competitive salary and access to a number of additional flexible benefits, which will cover Health and Wellbeing, Savings and Protection & Life, Leisure and Entertainment.

Roke has a great community of groups with shared interests. These enable people to share ideas and be passionate about tools, technologies & techniques, which interest them.

We are committed to a policy of Equal Opportunity, Diversity and Inclusion. Our working environment is friendly, creative and inclusive. We will consider flexible working arrangements and support a diverse work-force and those with additional needs.

Clearances
Due to the nature of this role, we require you to be eligible to achieve SC clearance.