Are you an experienced Applications Solution Architect with a passion for driving technical excellence and leading innovation?

We are looking for an Application Solution Architect to join our team within our Aerospace Defence and Security Sector. In this role, you will define the solutions for new service capabilities, provide oversight of our existing applications, and shape our data architecture. You’ll be responsible for both current technology components and for aligning service, process, organization, and operating models with our overall strategy.

This is a hybrid working role, where you could be based anywhere in the UK, with weekly travel to our newly refurbished Office in Farnborough, Hampshire and our Newbury site in Berkshire.  

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

What you'll be doing:

• Technical Leadership. Drive the collaborative effort to define and deliver the solution architecture that satisfies all key stakeholders and meets business requirements.
• Design expert. Use your expert technical skills and experience to produce durable, flexible and extensible architectural designs.
• Domain expert. With your deep understanding of the technology domains that are relevant to the solution. These may cover standards, features and products that could be exploited.
• Risk manager. Assess and quantify the risks associated with the design decisions. These risks must be communicated to relevant parties.

What you’ll bring:

• Application standards, models and industry trends.
• Zero-Trust Architecture standards as it pertains to applications and flows.
• Modern Application and Software Development practices (DevSecOps).
• Windows & Linux operation systems and appropriate middleware.
• Security & Cyber awareness, e.g., SEF, Controls, CSD products.

It would be great if you had:

• Data Centric Security models, labelling and their architectures.
• Cross Domain Solutions.
• Application Labelling standards.
• Application interfaces, e.g., RESTful, API etc.
• Quality software development practices, standards and tooling.
• Application-level Automation Technologies, e.g., Ansible, Jenkins etc.
• Application & Software supply chain management experience.
• Zero Trust Architecture.
• Active SC or DV Clearance.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time,
Location: Farnborough, Hampshire
Security Clearance Level: Eligible for DV Clearance
Internal Recruiter: Carolyne
Salary: £90,000
Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?
Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.