Senior Software Architect – space sector

Harwell Science Park

2-3 days a week in the office 

Description

This fully funded start-up is a wholly owned subsidiary of a global enterprise providing space sector services.

It’s been spun-out to create the freedom for this small team to work away from interruption and large corporate baggage. The challenge is to identify, define and develop ground-breaking next-generation space services for the NewSpace market.

They’re about to grow rapidly because they’ve just won a large project with partners and they are the prime.

The opportunity

As senior software architect, you’ll take the lead in defining and delivering cutting edge software and processes in a collaborative environment, working with highly skilled engineers across multiple domains and sites.

• Plan, design, develop and manage applications
• Design, develop, prepare test strategies and plans, environments, facilities & equipment.
• Hire & build your own team
• Write high-quality code.
• Work with team leads, Scrum Master and product owners.

Essential

• 5 years’ experience and work within ITIL, DevOps, Agile and CI/CD.
• Leadership of design and delivery teams
• Design, build, test and maintenance of modern software applications.
• Version control e.g. GIT, Bitbucket.
• Ability to cope with design complexity and uncertainty.
• Self-motivated with an aptitude for problem solving and driving difficult issues
• Experience of mentoring and coaching peers or junior engineers.  

Desirable Skills

• Kubernetes with: AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with SQL, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C#.
• Development for a Linux environment.
• Developing services and applications using Java, TypeScript, and Angular.
• Scripting, using languages like Bash, PowerShell or Python.
• Developing software, microservices, APIs, RESTful services.
• Docker environments.
• Test automation skills within a continuous integration environment.
• Satellite communication technologies with an appreciation of satellite subsystems, systems engineering processes and operations environments.
• Experience with typical ESA project and documentation processes.
• Eligibility for UK security clearance.

Occasional travel may be required. Rules onsite require British Citizens. You will be required to undergo security clearance.

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