Software Architect

Unleash the Power of Multi-Mission Excellence: Safeguarding the Seas for the World's Navies.

Step into a world where cutting-edge technology meets unparalleled expertise. Ultra Maritime pioneers delivering multi-mission solutions that protect and empower the naval forces worldwide. With our extensive portfolio of capabilities, our innovations are utilised on naval fleets across our allied navies around the globe.

As the maritime and underwater battlespace evolves, we tirelessly push the boundaries to develop advanced specialist systems that provide our 'five-eyes' Defence customers with an unbeatable warfighting edge. From surface vessels to sub-surface operations and unmanned platforms, we are revolutionizing the way naval missions are executed.

We thrive on collaboration and partnering with our customers to ensure mission success. Our expert solutions encompass an array of game-changing technologies, including state-of-the-art sonar, radar, expendables, signature management, and naval power systems.

Join us in shaping the future of naval warfare and together, we will safeguard the seas and empower navies worldwide!

Nationality Requirements

Candidates must be eligible to obtain the relevant security clearance required for the role, due to the nature of the programmes we deliver for our customers.

Job Description

Scope Summary:

The Software Architect is responsible for defining and maintaining the software architecture for our product line. This involves developing product roadmaps, driving technology insertion, and aligning with business development to ensuring alignment with stakeholders while incorporating cross-product, project, and customer needs. The architect guides the creation of software product requirements, addresses legacy systems and obsolescence, establishes software development best practices, ensures product and process compliance to relevant industry and military standards, and drives the software test and integration strategy. Furthermore, the architect contributes to bids and work packages to ensure alignment with product roadmaps and defines necessary infrastructure needs for development and testing environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Defining Software Architecture: Making architecture decisions for our line of software products, maintaining architecture documentation (drawings, written design descriptions, data flow diagrams, and UML/SysML models). Communicating decisions, collaborating with stakeholders, and diplomatically negotiating solutions to disagreements
• Lead the Product Direction: Developing a software roadmap, including identifying and encouraging opportunities for reuse. Staying current with technology trends and driving novel technology insertion. Aligning product direction with business development plans, including awareness of upcoming requirements or functionality from our target customers. Liaising with cross product teams like safety and supportability and incorporating their input into product direction.
• Addressing Legacy Systems and Obsolescence: Identify strategies to modernize, replace, or deprecate legacy systems. Ensure product development roadmaps plan for obsolescence. Management of technical risk, technical debt, and continued incorporation of lessons learnt from past projects.
• Software Development Best Practices and Standards: Define the software development, release, and lifecycle support processes. Maintain awareness of relevant standards (AQAP 2122, MIL-STDs, IEEE, DEF-STAN, etc.)
• Software Test and Integration Strategy: Actively drive development of the test and integration strategy for software development and associated process documentation. Identify opportunities to automate unit, functional, and regression testing. Incorporate into product development roadmaps the associated requirements for the test environment and approach (e.g., emulators / stimulators / simulators)
• Adjudicating Technical Decisions: Input to and review of detailed technical decisions, including code reviews. Providing general technical guidance and oversight to team.
• Software Product Requirements: Guiding development of software product requirements that capture cross-project considerations for our software products, such as cybersecurity. Review of software requirement specifications and supporting requirement verification efforts. Maintaining awareness of project-specific software requirements, and ensuring the product direction is aligned.
• Contributing to Bids and Work Packages: Ensuring the bids and work packages scoped on projects align with the process expectations and product roadmaps (e.g., are novel features/technologies identified in the roadmap funded, does the work package include scope for the process steps required)
• Infrastructure Needs: Defining infrastructure needs for the virtual development environment, automated test environment, and any other infrastructure services and tools required for the deployment pipeline.

Required Skills/Experience

• Degree level (or equivalent) in a related engineering discipline such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering
• 2 or more years of experience in a software architect role for complex software solutions spanning multiple components and applications
• 2 or more years of experience serving in a technical leadership capacity.
• 7 or more years of C++ and/or Java experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. Effective at adjudicating technical debates and decisions. Able to negotiate and encourage process changes.
• Self-motivated, adaptable to change, proactive, and diligent
• Knowledge of Software Engineering best practices, methodologies, processes, and tools, specifically the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Experience with Linux operating systems and comfortable working on the command line

Desired Skills

• Experience working on customized software solutions for government organizations (any level)
• Experience developing architecture models and documentation in accordance with industry standards (e.g., SysML, UML).
• Good understanding of software configuration and build management
• A good working understanding of Microsoft office applications: Word and Excel
• Experience using software development and continuous integration tools (CI/CD) such as, but not limited to: Jira, Azure Devops, Jenkins, static code analysis tools

Wish List Skills

• Sonar domain knowledge or similar signal processing intensive applications
• Experience working with hardware and software emulators to conduct integration testing
• Direct experience creating automated build pipelines in tools such as Jenkins or Azure Devops

Additional Requirements

• The Candidate must be capable of acquiring a Canadian / NATO Secret security clearance and a Canadian Controlled Goods assessment to the satisfaction of the company

Ultra Maritime – Canada offers a competitive wage and vacation package along with medical, vision and dental benefits.  Additionally, we offer the following benefits for all employees:

• 9-day fortnight, condense your two-week schedule from 10 days to 9 days and receive every other Friday off
• Up to 5% RRSP matching after 3 months
• Flexible work from home policies or the option to work on-site
• Bonus scheme available to all employees
• Purchase up to one week of additional vacation every year

Diverse & Inclusive Employer

Ultra Maritime is an equal opportunities employer that values diversity, inclusion, equity and equality. Underpinned by our values, behaviours, and policies, we want you to feel empowered to be your best and authentic self.

We promote a workplace that welcomes people from all backgrounds and cultures; believing that this will increase our diversity of thinking, and ultimately ensure we continue delivering on our commitments to our customers.

We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status and welcome applications from all candidates.

What’s in it for you?

We offer a competitive benefits package including extended health and dental, life insurance, RRSP, deferred profit sharing, optional critical illness insurance, an EFAP and student bursaries

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We encourage regular manager-employee performance feedback, goal alignment and employee development through our Employee Performance Development Plan (EPDP) and offer employee education assistance to allow our people to acquire new qualifications and certifications.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and particularly welcome applications from Women, Aboriginal Persons, Persons with Disabilities and Visible Minorities.

Reasonable accommodation statement: If you need an accommodation for any part of the application process, please email careers@ultra-us-gbs.com

Company: Ultra Maritime