Senior Software Governance & Release Architect

AVEVA; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

AVEVA in Beijing seeks a Senior Software Governance Engineer to establish and drive governance across the China HMI product portfolio, ensuring releases meet AVEVA requirements for quality, security, and compliance. You will work with Development, QA, DevOps, Product Management, Security, Legal, and Global R&D to enforce governance during the software lifecycle and enable confident releases.

This role balances regulatory needs with engineering productivity, driving automation and end-to-end

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Security, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, release engineering, DevOps, software quality, software governance, or related roles.
• Solid understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), software release processes, and modern software engineering practices.
• Experience with source control and CI/CD systems such as Git, Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, or equivalent platforms.
• Strong understanding of software quality and engineering risk management, including static analysis, code quality assessment, defect management, and technical debt reduction.
• Experience using software quality and security tools such as Coverity, SonarQube, Black Duck, Snyk, Fortify, or similar solutions.
• Familiarity with SSDLC and open-source software licensing concepts.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Good written and spoken English for collaboration with global teams.

Responsibilities

• Own software governance for the China HMI product portfolio, ensuring products are released and delivered in accordance with AVEVA release, quality, security, and compliance requirements.
• Coordinate release readiness and cross-product release activities across HMI, SCADA, Historian, and other related products.
• Identify, assess, and drive reduction of software risks through proactive monitoring of engineering quality indicators, including compiler warnings, static analysis findings, technical debt, vulnerability reports, and defect trends.
• Serve as Security Advisor for assigned products, driving vulnerability management and remediation using tools such as Black Duck and Coverity.
• Govern open-source software usage, license compliance, and SBOM generation to ensure regulatory and corporate compliance.
• Establish and maintain end-to-end traceability between requirements, source code, build artifacts, releases, and customer deliverables to support auditability and software supply chain integrity.
• Drive continuous improvement and automation of software governance practices while balancing compliance requirements with engineering productivity.

Skills

SDLC understanding

Release engineering

DevOps experience

Software quality management

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Security, or related discipline

Tools

Git

Azure DevOps

GitHub

GitLab

Jenkins

Coverity

SonarQube

Black Duck

Snyk

Fortify

Job description

AVEVA in Beijing seeks a Senior Software Governance Engineer to establish and drive governance across the China HMI product portfolio, ensuring releases meet AVEVA requirements for quality, security, and compliance. You will work with Development, QA, DevOps, Product Management, Security, Legal, and Global R&D to enforce governance during the software lifecycle and enable confident releases.

This role balances regulatory needs with engineering productivity, driving automation and end-to-end