Senior Software Architect

SECURITY CLEARANCE: You will be subject to a BPSS check (including a criminal record check).

TRAVEL REQUIRED: Occasional travel within UK and international.

LOCATION: Filton (80% of your working week must be office based).

TYPE: Full time.

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU:

• Financial Reward: Competitive salary, annual profit share, contributory pension, share options, car leasing scheme, free onsite parking, season ticket loan, tax-free technology scheme, shopping discounts and much more.
• Work / Life Balance: 35 hour week, flexible working around core hours and Friday afternoons off, hybrid working, option to buy/sell holiday.
• Personal Development: Personalised development plan, Airbus Leadership University and unlimited access to 10,000+ E-learning courses, internal mobility including international opportunities.
• Health & Wellbeing: Bupa health insurance (including assisted fertility treatments and gender dysphoria & reassignment support), wellbeing benefits (including 24/7 online GP and mental health support), discounted family health/dental insurance/eye tests, cycle-to-work scheme, on-site canteen and coffee shop, lunchtime yoga/meditation.
• Family and Caregiving: Life assurance, enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave and caregiving and purpose built maternity rooms on site.
• Inclusive Environment: Wellbeing room, Multi-faith room, Employee Representative Groups (Gender, LGBTQ+, International, Generational, Disability, Social & Cultural Diversity, Neurodiversity).

The Digital Airframe Advanced Capabilities team is excited to welcome a Senior Software Architect specializing in Airframe Software Architecture.

Role Summary: We're unifying fragmented processes, methods, tools, and data across Airbus's Domains to create a cohesive Digital Airframe team at the forefront of digitalization. In this pivotal role, you'll lead and provide technical guidance to critical project teams driving Airbus Engineering's digital transformation. This means strategically leveraging cutting-edge Modelling & Simulation, Multi-disciplinary Analysis and Optimisation, System Engineering/Model Based Systems Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Model Integration methods to bridge the gap with traditional engineering disciplines like structure design, analysis, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE), and automation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of end-to-end software architectures, translating complex Airframe Engineering requirements into authoritative designs using robust system modeling techniques.
• Lead software engineering teams, ensuring implementation of Software Engineering methods and guardrails/guidelines to ensure robust Software Development, Validation, and Verification (V&V) including commissioning and remedial actions.
• Understand and define Modelling specifications using UML, BPMN, Archimate.
• Design and execute robust full stack software solutions in line with business requirements and the digital Process, Methods and Tools landscape following ISO15288 standards.
• Ensure robustness by design, including architectural dossiers, QA code review, and V&V methodology (elementary, integration, and user validation/acceptance testing).
• Guide, invent, and scout technology trends to inform future strategies and R&T roadmaps.
• Contribute to scientific communities by publishing scientific papers, creating intellectual property (IP), and participating in PhD juries and other academic collaborations.
• Preparation of handover to industrialisation ensuring robust TRL6.
• Demonstrate strong leadership of Software Architecture on behalf of Airframe Engineering, leading architectural discussions with other Engineering Centres and Digital teams, especially at the start of major projects or programs.
• Lead multi-functional projects, influencing both business and digital functions, and reporting progress to senior leadership.
• Represent Airbus in various forums and advise on boards and consortia.

About You:

• Profound knowledge and practical application of Software Architecture, Systems of Systems (preferably experience in setting them up), Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods Data Management, including Data Lineage.
• Experience with large infrastructure routes to industrialization and integrating complex or multi-value projects.
• Skilled in Stakeholder Management, including working effectively with external suppliers, academia, and government agencies.
• Capacity to motivate and work in transnational teams.
• Ability to interpret Airbus Vision, Mission, and Strategy into simplified objectives for both internal and external stakeholders.
• Able to make or influence people in a complex network of stakeholders and customers, ensuring right-first-time delivery and achieving all planned milestones.
• Demonstrated success in achieving delivery to Time, Cost, and Quality.
• Commitment to living and embodying the Airbus leadership model.
• Proven ability to provide strategic software architecture leadership and drive consensus across diverse internal organizations (e.g., other Engineering Centres and Digital functions) during program initiation.

How we can support you: Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility you need and we’ll always do our best to accommodate your request. Please let us know if you need us to make any adjustments for the selection process - you can share this with your Talent Acquisition Partner if you are invited to interview. Examples may include (but not exclusive to) accessible facilities; auxiliary aids; room layout, etc. Any information disclosed will be treated in the strictest confidence.

As a Disability Confident Employer, Airbus UK will offer an interview to any applicant that considers themselves to have a disability or long-term condition and meets the minimum criteria of the role (as set out in the job advert). To opt in, just select the option during your application submission and our Talent Acquisition team will contact you.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company: Airbus Operations Limited

Employment Type: Permanent

Experience Level: Professional

Job Family: Structure Design & Integration

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