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Job Title: Software Architect
Location: Isle of Wight – Cowes or Portsmouth – BroadOak
Salary: Up to £85,700 depending on skills and experience plus bonus scheme. Part time & accruing hours available. Please let us know if you would like to discuss these options.

Overview

As the Software Architect you will act as the technical focal point and design authority, developing and maintaining software architectures that meet challenging complex Radar requirements. You’ll create robust, resilient, scalable and secure middleware and application layers for hardware, using modern operating systems, tools, and design patterns. You will leverage both licensed and open-source tools, ensuring compliance with OSS guidance, and work with the wider team to ensure a smooth implementation, integration and test process.

Responsibilities

• Provide Software Subject Matter Expertise: Working across multiple projects with various programming languages, architectures, and lifecycle models, offering specialist technical advice and guidance to peers and projects
• Define and Develop Architectural Artefacts: Creating, assessing and reviewing software and data processing architectures to meet software and system requirements and support future re-use of software, ensuring alignment throughout the engineering lifecycle
• Establish and Maintain Design Processes: Enhancing transformational activities and tools used to develop and manage software design artefacts, ensuring robust, resilient, scalable and secure middleware and applications architectures on modern hardware
• Ensure Toolchain Compliance and Integration: Collaborating with DevOps to ensure tools are licensed, OSS-compliant, interoperable, and integrated into the build process
• Lead Technical Governance: Conduct peer reviews, leading technical design reviews, verify and sign off software designs, and uphold Maritime Services’ software processes
• Promote Continuous Improvement and Knowledge Sharing: Supporting skills development within the team, maintain awareness of industry trends, and ensure architectural awareness of Security, and Safety Integrity Levels (SILs)

Your skills and experiences

• Extensive experience with at least one high-level programming language and a high-level design methodology such as UML
• Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and familiarity with various models, including Agile and Waterfall
• Proven experience in leading software development activities and mentoring engineering teams
• Solid knowledge of relevant software standards (e.g. ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207), including software safety and Safety Integrity Levels (SIL)
• Comprehensive understanding of configuration management practices and tools. Strong technical background, degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related numerate discipline, with Chartered Engineer (CEng) status or working towards it

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Future Radar team

Join us in shaping the Future of Radar Technology. We are evolving our radar portfolio by enhancing our existing products and developing brand-new radar products to address emerging and future threats in the realm of Future Air Dominance. With strong collaboration from our customers and investment in talent, our strategy is to keep the UK at the forefront of defence innovation.

Location: Our workplace in Cowes is an easily accessible commute from Southampton with a regular foot passenger ferry and BAE shuttle service from the ferry terminal to site.

Working model: Our working approach will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home.

Important notices

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export control restrictions. Roles may require Baseline Personnel Security Standard or higher levels of National Security Vetting, which may require 5 to 10 years of residence in the UK for certain vetting levels. All applicants must meet the Baseline Personnel Security Standard at minimum.

Closing Date: 22nd August 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. Please submit your application as early as possible.

Job details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Part-time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Technology, Information and Internet

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