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Solution Architect - Autonomy (Maritime / Uncrewed Systems) – UK
I’m supporting a leading UK Defence business building an open, modular autonomy architecture for uncrewed surface vessels (USVs). They’re looking for a senior Autonomy Solution Architect to own the end-to-end technical solution for this autonomy line of effort - translating customer missions and operational environments into a coherent system architecture, delivery increments, and evidence-backed releases.
What You'll Be Doing
- Define and own the end-to-end autonomy architecture, including onboard systems, mission management, remote operations, communications, simulation environments, payload interfaces, APIs, data models, and service contracts.
- Lead roadmap delivery by translating strategy into phased releases, managing dependencies, acceptance criteria, capability maturity, and operational readiness.
- Govern system integration, verification, and assurance, ensuring traceability from requirements through testing, defect resolution, supplier integration, and release approval.
- Drive architecture standards, reusable virtual integration environments, and safe operation models, including authority transfer, degraded modes, and fail-safe behaviours.
- Provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary teams, supporting design reviews, problem-solving, trials, commissioning, and early operational deployments.
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What They're Looking For
- Proven experience designing and delivering complex autonomy, robotics, aerospace, automotive, maritime, or other safety-critical cyber-physical systems.
- Strong systems engineering expertise, with the ability to translate operational requirements into architectures, interfaces, delivery plans, and technical trade studies.
- Hands-on experience with software, networks, sensors, platforms, simulation (SIL/HIL), test automation, integration, troubleshooting, and field trials.
- Knowledge of safety engineering, assurance frameworks, supplier management, acceptance governance, and technical delivery leadership.
- Excellent stakeholder communication skills, a relevant degree (or equivalent experience)
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Desirable (nice to have)
- USVs / uncrewed vehicles / remote operating centre experience.
- Maritime navigation and COLREG-aware behaviours.
- ROS 2, DDS (or comparable robotics middleware).
- Sensor fusion + autonomy sensors (radar, EO/IR, AIS, GNSS, lidar, sonar).
- MBSE / SysML / digital engineering.
- C++/Python and modern software delivery practices.
- ODDs, CONOPS, human-machine interaction models.
- Prior design authority / technical team leadership; CEng / INCOSE (or working towards).
Package highlights
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays (rising with service)
- Holiday buy/sell (up to 5 days)
- Flexi working (core hours 10:00–15:00, team-dependent)
- Private medical (optional family cover)
- Pension (5% employer contribution)
- Life assurance (3x salary), income protection, cash plan
- Cycle to Work + electric car scheme
- EAP wellbeing support
- Professional membership reimbursement
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