Software Architect

ZipRecruiter; Lossiemouth; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 86,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading defense technology company is seeking a Software Architect to develop software architectures for radar technology. The role involves providing expertise, defining architectural artifacts, and ensuring compliance with safety standards. Candidates should have extensive experience in programming and software lifecycle management, and a degree in a relevant field. Flexible working hours available, with a competitive salary and benefits package.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health benefits

Shopping discounts

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with programming languages and methodologies such as UML.
• Solid understanding of Agile and Waterfall models.
• Experience leading software development activities.
• Knowledge of software standards like ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207.

Responsibilities

• Provide Software Subject Matter Expertise across multiple projects.
• Define and Develop Architectural Artefacts for software and data processing.
• Lead Technical Governance and peer reviews.
• Promote Continuous Improvement and Knowledge Sharing within the team.

Skills

High-level programming language

Software development lifecycle

Mentoring engineering teams

Configuration management practices

Education

Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Overview

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.

What you’ll be doing

• Provide Software Subject Matter Expertise: Work 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: Create, assess and review 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: Enhance 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: Collaborate with DevOps to ensure tools are licensed, OSS-compliant, interoperable, and integrated into the build process.
• Lead Technical Governance: Conduct peer reviews, lead technical design reviews, verify and sign off software designs, and uphold Maritime Services’ software processes.
• Promote Continuous Improvement and Knowledge Sharing: Support 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 related numerate discipline, with Chartered Engineer (CEng) status or working towards it.

Benefits

In addition to a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems offers employee share plans, a range of flexible health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts. An annual incentive may also be available.

The Future Radar team

Join us in shaping the Future of Radar Technology. We are evolving our radar portfolio by enhancing 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.

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.

Role context and working arrangements

Using modern operating systems, tools, and design patterns, you will create robust, resilient, scalable and secure middleware and application layers for hardware. You’ll 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.

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. Our working approach provides flexibility with working hours, depending on role and location, which could include accruing hours and flexibility around start and finish times to balance life at work, on site and life at home.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values integrity and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential.

We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to ensure our recruitment processes are inclusive. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments. Some roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export control restrictions.

These restrictions mean that factors such as prior citizenship, and place of birth can affect eligibility for certain roles. All applicants must at a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles require higher levels of National Security Vetting, typically with 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role.

Closing Date: 26th September 2025. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. Please submit your application early.

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