Solutions Architect

Gattaca; Fareham; Vor Ort; GBP 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

25 days holiday + bank holidays (r2ing

Holiday buy/sell (up to 5 days)

Flexi working (core hours 10:00–15:00)

Private medical (optional family cover

Pension (5% employer contribution)

Life assurance (3x salary), income

Cycle to Work + electric car scheme

Professional membership reimbursement

Zusammenfassung

Gattaca is seeking a senior Solution Architect for Autonomy (Maritime/Uncrewed Systems) in the UK. You will own end-to-end autonomy architectures, including onboard systems, mission management, remote operations, and data models.

You will translate customer missions into phased releases and drive evidence-backed deployments, with travel for trials and deployments. You will lead multidisciplinary teams, manage integration and verification, ensure safety engineering practices, and contribute to

Qualifikationen

• Experience designing and delivering autonomy, robotics or safety-critical cyber-physical systems.
• Ability to translate operational requirements into architectures and interfaces.
• Strong systems engineering with trade studies and delivery planning.
• Leadership in technical delivery across multidisciplinary teams.

Aufgaben

• Define and own end-to-end autonomy architecture (onboard systems, mission management, remote operations, comms).
• Lead roadmap delivery, phased releases, dependencies and readiness criteria.
• Govern system integration, verification and assurance with traceability from requirements to testing.
• Drive architecture standards, virtual integration environments, and safe operation models.
• Provide technical leadership across teams during design reviews, trials and deployments.

Kenntnisse

Autonomy architecture

Systems engineering

Safety-critical systems

Technical leadership

Software & networks

SIL/HIL simulation

Test automation

Integration & verification

Ausbildung

CEng / INCOSE (or working towards)

Tools

C++

Python

Simulation tools (SIL/HIL)

Jobbeschreibung

Solution Architect - Autonomy (Maritime / Uncrewed Systems) – UK

I’m supporting a leading UK Defence business building an open, modular autonomy architecture for uncrewed surface vessels (USVs).

They’re looking for a senior Autonomy Solution Architect to own the end-to-end technical solution for this autonomy line of effort - translating customer missions and operational environments into a coherent system architecture, delivery increments, and evidence-backed releases.

What You'll Be Doing

• Define and own the end-to-end autonomy architecture, including onboard systems, mission management, remote operations, communications, simulation environments, payload interfaces, APIs, data models, and service contracts.
• Lead roadmap delivery by translating strategy into phased releases, managing dependencies, acceptance criteria, capability maturity, and operational readiness.
• Govern system integration, verification, and assurance, ensuring traceability from requirements through testing, defect resolution, supplier integration, and release approval.
• Drive architecture standards, reusable virtual integration environments, and safe operation models, including authority transfer, degraded modes, and fail-safe behaviours.
• Provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary teams, supporting design reviews, problem-solving, trials, commissioning, and early operational deployments.

Eligibility for UK Security Clearance, and willingness to travel for trials and deployments.

What They're Looking For

• Proven experience designing and delivering complex autonomy, robotics, aerospace, automotive, maritime, or other safety-critical cyber-physical systems.
• Strong systems engineering expertise, with the ability to translate operational requirements into architectures, interfaces, delivery plans, and technical trade studies.
• Hands-on experience with software, networks, sensors, platforms, simulation (SIL/HIL), test automation, integration, troubleshooting, and field trials.
• Knowledge of safety engineering, assurance frameworks, supplier management, acceptance governance, and technical delivery leadership.

Desirable (nice to have)

• Maritime navigation and COLREG-aware behaviours.
• C++/Python and modern software delivery practices.
• ODDs, CONOPS, human-machine interaction models.
• Prior design authority / technical team leadership; CEng / INCOSE (or working towards).

Package highlights

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays (rising with service)
• Holiday buy/sell (up to 5 days)
• Flexi working (core hours 10:00–15:00, team-dependent)
• Private medical (optional family cover)
• Pension (5% employer contribution)
• Life assurance (3x salary), income protection, cash plan
• Cycle to Work + electric car scheme
• Professional membership reimbursement