On behalf of our client, we are seeking to recruit a Software Architect to join them initially on a 6-month contract. As the Software Architect you will be able to write business requirements/technical specifications to design, develop, test and design software solutions to agreed timescales. It is imperative that you have experience in modern development methodologies such as Maven, CI and Test Driven Developments.

Role: Software Architect
Pay: £73.45 ph via an Umbrella
Contract: Monday to Friday, 37 Hours a week, 6-month contract
Location: Portsmouth
IR35 Status: Inside
SC Clearance: SC once started.

Responsibilities

· The design and development of current software applications and process for current and future software platforms used within the design / testing a satellite payload during manufacture.
· Designing software components migrating to future software architectures and databases, and some support of the current software builds.
· Working closely with the software developers and testers to resolve defects as well as designing validation suites and test plans to maximise the code coverage of products by generating unit tests.

Essential Requirements

• Demonstrable experience of developing client/server or distributed software solutions in Java.
• Good working knowledge of software architecture and design.
• Good understanding of database solutions.
• Experienced in message-based parsing (JSON & XML).
• Problem solving and the ability to think laterally as part of a team or individually to meet the needs of the project.
• The ability to work unsupervised, within a team on multiple and concurrent tasks to tight deadlines.
• Extensive software development experience:
  • Java 8 onwards & JavaEE (5+ years' experience)
  • Spring Framework (3+ years' experience)
  • Importance of TDD & BDD.
  • Scalable, distributed systems experience.
  • Relational & Non-Relational Database Models
  • Documentation skills (UML)
  • Connectivity and protocol stack experience (TCP/UDP)
  • Unit & integration testing (JUnit, TestNG, Selenium)
  • Agile (Scrum/Kanban : JIRA / Confluence / Crucible & FishEye)
  • Understanding of CI/CD (Jenkins / Maven / Nexus).
  • SVN/Git

Desirable Requirements

• • Front-end Technologies (Typescript / Javascript / Angular / NodeJS)
  • Functional Programming
  • Reactive Development & Actor Based Concurrency (AKKA)
  • Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) with Cucumber
  • Mentoring and Lead Capabilities
  • User Interface Design
  • Container & Cloud Technologies (Docker / AWS / Azure)

If you are interested in applying for this position and you meet the requirements, please send your updated CV to: Natalie Dalkin at Line Up Aviation

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