Software Architect

Salary: £70,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• Eligibility to gain SC Security Clearance.
• Willingness to travel regularly within the UK and infrequently worldwide.
• Strong experience designing and owning architectures for complex systems in a shared services, Service-Oriented, or microservices environment.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services would be advantageous.
• Experience working in environments with security, cybersecurity, reliability, and compliance constraints.
• Interest in the theory, patterns, and evolution of longstanding architectures.
• Ability to identify issues, ask questions, and spot red flags within architecture or the full software lifecycle.
• Ability to work creatively to solve problems, untangle historic situations, and uphold security regulations.

Responsibilities:

• Translate business and customer goals and high-level requirements into robust architecture for Geospatial solutions.
• Balance performance, security, reliability, and compliance in solution design.
• Establish end-to-end traceability from requirements to solution design through structured documentation and design rationale.
• Leverage MBSE (SysML/UML) to model complex system architectures.
• Drive architectural vision by proactively engaging with key stakeholders to gather pertinent information.
• Consider efficiency, component reuse, and how the system can evolve to meet future demands.
• Work on the whole lifecycle, creating the core of our Geospatial and satellite data products.
• Contribute within a collaborative Agile scrum environment alongside testers, developers, lead engineers, project managers, and a product owner.
• Help deliver secure Geospatial software for Government and MOD projects, focusing on ISR solutions.

Technologies:

• AWS
• Architect
• Cloud
• Support
• Product Owner
• Security
• UML
• microservices

More:

We are Airbus Defence and Space Limited, hiring for a permanent, full-time Architect role in Guildford or Newcastle Upon Tyne. We offer a competitive salary, annual profit share, contributory pension, share options, car leasing, free onsite parking, a tax-free technology scheme, discounted shopping, flexible working, hybrid working, development opportunities, health and wellbeing benefits, family and caregiving support, and an inclusive environment with wellbeing and multi-faith rooms plus employee representative groups. We support flexible working arrangements where possible and welcome applications from diverse backgrounds.

last updated 37 week of 2026