Software Architect

Job Title:             Software Architect
Location:             Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangement 
Compensation:   Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type:          Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:              SF56450

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Software Architect at our Babcock Technology Centre site.

The role
As a Software Architect, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll deliver significant software bids as well as building and leading software development teams to meet requirements.

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

This role is full time, 37-hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with two days in the office/onsite and three days working from home.

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
We value difference and don’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.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What we offer 

• Generous holiday allowance 
• Matched contribution 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 the majority of 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

Babcock International 
For over a century Babcock  has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 01/05/2024

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