Software Solutions Architect

Description:

A key member of the Engineering team that will ensure our solutions are fit for purpose, well architected to deliver the capability required today and extend in future with ease and identify opportunities to extend and diversify the delivery of our capability into new customer sets.

Day to day you will play a crucial role in managing senior stakeholders both internally and externally that will be both technical and non-technical in demonstrating the capability of Northrop Grumman within the National Security sector. This will involve supporting development of project team’s designs and engineering approaches, providing rationale to senior customer stakeholders for project designs. In addition, you will coach and mentor others in the business to aid their understanding of the National Security sector and technical best practices.

Your Responsibilities:

• Identifying the most appropriate technical solution to solve present and future capability needs.
• Develop architectures that are easily understood by technical and non-technical staff of all experience levels.
• Support projects in achieving their goals and milestones by embedding self as a peer within the team.
• Be a focal point for key stakeholders both internally and externally to build confidence and credibility for the business.
• Identify opportunities to diversify delivery of our capability to adjacent sectors and assist writing the technical responses for new bids.

Your Experience:

• Demonstrable knowledge and experience in solution architecting, utilising techniques and tools to help communicate the solution.
• Demonstrable knowledge of large scale Cloud architecture as well as on-premises infrastructure would be a plus.
• Demonstrable experience of managing senior level stakeholders, building relationships and confidence for an engineering team.
• Experience within National Security sector.