Job Description: Software Architect
SECURITY CLEARANCE : Eligibility to gain UK SC Security Clearance
TRAVEL REQUIRED : Occasional within UK and international
LOCATION : Newcastle Upon Tyne or Guildford (60% of your working week must be office based)
TYPE : Full time
What's in it for youFinancial Reward: Competitive salary, annual profit share, contributory pension, share options, car leasing scheme, free onsite parking, season ticket loan, tax-free technology scheme, discounted shopping and much more
Work / Life Balance: 37 hour week, flexible working around core hours and Friday afternoons off, hybrid working, up to 2 additional days per month as TOIL, option to buy/sell holiday (AP+)
Personal Development: Personalised development plan, Airbus Leadership University and unlimited access to 10,000+ E-learning courses, internal mobility including international opportunities
Health & Wellbeing: Wellbeing benefits (including 24/7 online GP and mental health support), Employee Assistance Programme, discounted family health / dental insurance / eye tests, cycle-to-work scheme
Family and Caregiving: Life assurance, enhanced pay for parental leave (23 weeks at 100% pay), adoption / shared parental / caregiving leave
Inclusive Environment: Employee Representative Groups (Gender, LGBTQ+, International, Generational, Disability, Social & Cultural Diversity, Neurodiversity)
We're looking for an experienced Software Architect to play a pivotal role in designing and delivering high-impact cloud-based geospatial software solutions for the Defence and commercial sectors. This is an opportunity to work on complex, mission-critical systems where your architectural decisions will directly influence long-term capability, performance, and security.
You'll sit at the heart of the engineering function-setting technical direction, guiding development teams, and ensuring our software solutions are scalable, secure, and built to last.
How you will contribute to the teamWork with System Architects to translate business goals and high-level requirements into robust software architectures, balancing performance, security, reliability, and compliance
Design scalable, flexible, and maintainable architectures for complex geospatial systems using the latest modern cloud based technologies and tools
Identify technical risks early and define pragmatic mitigation strategies
Work in an AGILE scrum team, collaborating closely with software engineers, testers and the Product Owner, providing clear guidance and hands-on architectural support
Collaborate with development teams to select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and patterns
Ensure delivered solutions align with the agreed architecture and meet both functional and non-functional requirements
Produce clear, structured documentation covering architecture decisions and design rationale
Contribute to and support technical and architectural reviews
Strong experience designing and owning software architectures for complex systems, preferably in a cloud environment with an awareness of DevSecOps
Ability to balance strategic thinking with practical delivery
Confidence communicating architectural designs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Experience working in environments with security, reliability, and compliance constraints, preferably in the geospatial domain.
A collaborative mindset and passion for mentoring and supporting engineering teams
Work on meaningful, real-world systems with national and commercial impact
Influence long-term technical strategy, not just individual projects
Collaborate with talented engineers in a supportive, engineering-led environment
Tackle challenging problems in secure and high-performance geospatial software
Company: AIRBUS Defence and Space Limited
Employment Type: Permanent
Experience Level: Professional
Job Family: Software Engineering