Software Architect, Software Engineer

Software Architect – Belfast

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Belfast, United Kingdom Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space.

Your health and well‑being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

• Join an integrated project team and develop your skills through being involved in all aspects of the software development lifecycle.
• Work within an Agile environment, leading a team and the alignment of the technical direction.
• Manage and coordinate software architecture studies across lifecycle phases from Bid to Delivery in collaboration with bid / project / product teams.
• Approve the technical, technological, and methodological choices taken in respect of the selected software architecture.
• Guarantee adherence to standards, reuse and product policies.
• Prepare and document architecture choices, present and document their justification and trade-offs (Design & Justification Files).
• Support and coach development teams throughout the development cycle.
• Participate in knowledge sharing such as provide knowledge on state‑of‑the‑art software architecting or software practices, writing article on engineering communities, sharing return of experience during webinar, animate Dojo and peer programming review.
• Maintain a technological watch on trends and identify modelling, simulation and prototyping opportunities.
• Set the expectations for the code quality and corresponding KPIs.
• Setup and follow the application of the coding practices.
• Actively contribute to the technical solution definition and improvements.
• Help the team focus on cross / non‑functional requirements.
• Educate and mentor junior developers to help them grow in their role.
• Aligning both Development and Dev Ops priorities to meet technical goals.
• Monitoring of security and commercial impact of developments on the platform.

• Team player with a sharp intellect, challenging approach and a “can do attitude”.
• Significant experience in execution of the full software engineering lifecycle (both traditional and agile) – including operational deployment knowledge with modern development practices and tools.
• Experience of multi‑stakeholder change management activities in a complex environment.
• Experience of delivering software in the context of system level and system of systems programmes.
• An understanding of the exploitation of Architectural modelling techniques.
• Able to influence a wide range of people to get things done – needs to be highly effective in a matrix based organisation – encourages an open environment where information and ideas are shared and innovative thinking is stimulated.
• You are familiar with engineering process and solution definition.
• You have proven modelling skills and ability to use modelling tools / methods.
• You are able to work within Agile environment (Scrum, SAFe, Less…), Lean engineering and Dev Ops culture.
• You are proficient in the management of performance, robustness, [safety], and cybersecurity.
• You are familiar with design patterns and able to define reusable referenced architecture in line with product policy.
• You master Software Design and technologies related to our domain completed by skills related to rules and regulations [COTS / OSS licensing, Intellectual Property, GDPR…].
• You have good skill in collaboration to interact with the other stakeholders.

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