Excellent, initial 6-month contract for a leading Defence client!

Experience Software Architect, eligible for security clearance is mandatory.

Maximum hourly rate : £90 per hour (Inside IR35)

Bristol,  working from home options available, though required in the office as and when business requires.

As Software Architect you will be responsible for:

• Delivering software input into a variety of tendering opportunities.
• Mobilising and maintaining software development teams to deliver against the requirements of successfully bid opportunities.
• Acting as Product owner for software delivered into in-service projects, R&D, and the wider campaigns. Providing guidance to the team on focus and priorities across the portfolio.
• Understanding and reporting on software delivery timescales and risk across a software portfolio.
• Developing and maintaining software architecture for software solutions. Working closely with the System Architect and Programme technical lead to integrate software solutions into the wider system architecture.
• Driving agile delivery within the focus area software delivery activities.
• Ensuring that all stakeholders including management and technical staff are clear of the design, architecture and how software will be delivered.
• A Software Architect with experience of delivering significant software bids and building and leading software development teams to meet requirements.

Essential skills and experience

• 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.

Desirable Experience

• XML
• Networked systems
• JICD
• Restful and/or RPC API
• Library agnostic code development
• Geospatial engines
• Cloud containers / Docker
• VHDL 
• VERILOG Experience with SDR architecture
• OPEN CPI Application/Component and Platform development
• Experience of Dev Ops

Please get in touch! Looking forward to your application.