Software Product Architect London, England
Job description
On May 31, 2023, Viasat completed its acquisition of Inmarsat, combining the teams, technologies and resources of the two companies to create a new global communications partner.
About Viasat
Viasat is a global communications company that believes everyone and everything in the world can be connected. With offices in 24 countries around the world, our mission shapes how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the world communicate and connect. Viasat is developing the ultimate global communications network to power high-quality, reliable, secure, affordable, fast connections to positively impact people's lives anywhere they are—on the ground, in the air or at sea, while building a sustainable future in space.
Chief Technology Office
The Chief Technology Office (CTO) maintains a centre of excellence for technology and broader infrastructure-related innovation, translating market needs into core expansion programmes to enable market development. We ensure that products and services are constantly pushing the boundaries of satellite communications. The CTO team is responsible for delivering development programmes, including satellites and launchers, ground infrastructure (ground stations, networks, user terminals and access technology), regulatory, market access and product and service development.
The CTO Platform Architecture Team owns the end-to-end architecture and technology strategy for Inmarsat's software platforms, products and services.
The primary purpose of this role is to define the technical requirements and high-level architecture of Inmarsat’s software products to meet customer demands, as well as working on infrastructure projects and technology innovations that lay the foundations for Inmarsat’s technology roadmap.
The architecture team is responsible for describing the solution to technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring that solutions are fit for purpose, cost-effective, deliverable, operable and supportable.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work across a diverse set of technology domains, such as mobile edge devices, software-defined networks, hybrid cloud, data platforms, analytics and monitoring, API design, applications and services.
The role requires broad technical expertise with an emphasis on software architecture and cloud-native design. It offers a tremendous opportunity to learn from a wide range of customers, subject matter experts, technologies and projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Working with internal stakeholders to ensure technical solutions meet business requirements
- Translation of business requirements into technical requirements, high-level architecture, and design documentation
- Ensuring that solutions are secure, reusable and cost-effective from both a commercial and operational perspective
- Identification of risks, issues and dependencies
- Collaborating with software engineering teams to help decompose high-level architecture into work packages, guiding the specification and implementation for all aspects of the software architecture.
- Validating low-level designs against high-level architecture and requirements.
- Contributing to the architecture roadmap for Inmarsat’s products and infrastructure
- Providing technical expertise and advice to internal stakeholders
- Identifying new and emerging industry trends that should be evaluated and incorporated into the company’s strategy
Essential Knowledge and Skills:
- Bachelor or Master’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field
- Experience as an architect, leading the design, development and deployment of end-to-end software at scale
- Software engineering experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to convey complex subjects in clear language
- Thorough grasp of systems thinking and the ability to understand, interpret and adopt new technical information rapidly
- Ability to think holistically, with an appreciation of operational complexity, security and systems management.
- Interest in new technologies and innovation, and a practical understanding of the technology development lifecycle
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Strong sense of responsibility and ownership for the success of projects
- Familiarity with modern design patterns and frameworks
- Creative problem-solving and analytical skills
- Proven ability to think strategically about product and technology challenges
Desirable:
- Certification or hands-on experience in one of more cloud environments
- Knowledge and first-hand experience of networking protocols and routing
- Experience with software virtualisation including containers and orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with Linux and hypervisors
- Experience of working in an Agile development environment, DevOps.
- Cybersecurity and secure-by-design methodology
- Familiarity with microservice and service-oriented architecture
- Familiarity with one or more database technologies and data modelling
- Data and event-driven design, domain-driven architecture
- Familiarity and hands-on experience in API best practices and management platforms
Additional Information
You must be eligible to work in this location advertised.
Our culture and ways of working
Our values define Inmarsat’s culture and represent what we believe in. Inmarsat employees aspire to behaviours that support our values, which create a stronger working environment and lie at the heart of our continued success as an organisation.
- Customer – we provide a unique value to our customers
- Accountability – we take ownership, we deliver results, and we keep our promises
- Respect – we collaborate, we embrace and celebrate diversity and we value difference
- Excellence – we create bold solutions for our customers and put quality at the heart of everything we do
We also value and encourage a healthy work-life balance, so we offer flexible working wherever possible. Depending on the operational requirements of your job and your team, we can offer compressed hours (nine-day fortnight), hybrid office-remote working, and flexibility during your working day to take care of personal commitments.
Diversity
At Inmarsat we want the best people for the job, and we warmly welcome applications from you if you’re suitably qualified and eligible, regardless of your sex, gender, age, race, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, gender identity, neurodiverse qualities, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, or maternity status.
Inmarsat is signed up to the Halo Hair Code, which aims to protect employees who come to work with natural hair and protective hairstyles associated with their racial, ethnic, and cultural identities.
To give you the best experience possible during your application process and interview, we can make adjustments. For example, if you’re visually impaired we’ll happily meet you locally and help you find your way to our office, or if you have neurodiverse qualities, we can provide you with additional support to help you prepare for your interview. Please let our Resourcing Team know if there are any ways in which we can support you.
