Junior Technical Architect

Category: Architecture
Main location: United Kingdom, England - Various, Various
Position ID: J0224-2262
Employment Type: Full Time

Position Description:

The Space, Defence and Intelligence business unit in CGI is a true IT Systems Integrator. We work, build, and operate bespoke, technically complex, mission-critical systems which help our clients keep us all safe and secure. We bring innovation to our clients using proven and emerging technologies, agile delivery processes and our deep expertise across the breadth of space, defence, intelligence, aerospace and maritime, all underpinned by our end-to-end cyber capability. We work collaboratively with global technology companies, cutting edge SMEs and academia to deliver the optimal solution for each client.

CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2023 and has been named one of the ‘World’s Best Employers’ by Forbes magazine. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI partner not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector. Join us and you’ll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We’ll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go.

We are on the hunt for a technical consultant to join the team of a full-time permanent basis. Our customer is going through a period of change from legacy applications to a foreseen modern architecture as well as exploring services delivered via collaboration platforms.

CGI manages a series of applications covering both the maintenance and evolutions for our customer by working with incumbent suppliers to define a deliver these against an agreed roadmap.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

We are expecting the successful candidate to grow and personally develop into this role, and will work with the existing team in Leatherhead; this will give the candidate exposure to a broad and diverse technical environment and to a large number of current and future projects.

- To be the lead engineer responsible for the applications under their responsibly including liaising with the client, CGI EO team, subcontractors, and other frame companies
- Autonomously manage all design requirements for evolutions and maintenance activities for the subsystems, with the support of external application suppliers
- Support the requirements baseline and review for his/her application set
- Prepare requirement and interface specifications
- Perform the technical activities for subsystem procurement
- Develop and maintain subsystem test specifications, data and tools, and liaise with suppliers for test implementation. Perform subsystem delivery acceptance and achieve the deliverables required for Transfer into Operation (TTO)
- Manage the use (i.e. configuration, testing, customisation) of components for specific projects
- Perform pilot implementation or prototyping activities where requested

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

Essential:
- Technical Analysis, Requirements Analysis, Interface Definition, Test Specification
- Hands on technical skills to deploy and test deliverables in a Linux based cloud environment
- Good communicator for customer and subcontractor contact
- Good planning skills, and able to manage concurrent activities against external dependencies;
- Can function in a "brownfield" environment - customer has many inter-related existing systems to understand

Desirable:
- Integration experience
- Experience of the space industry or other large science/industry/media data user.
- Self starter who is looking for a challenge & the opportunity to grow
- Good team player - able to adapt and learn quickly in a new working environment
- Understanding of modern data stacks, datalake, cloud native formats , performance, networking, security architecture
- Understanding of contract change management (CCN) process

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Skills:

  • Requirements Analysis
  • Technical Analysis
  • Test Analysis

What you can expect from us:

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