Software Design Authority (SDA)

Job Title

Software Design Authority (SDA)

Location

New Malden/Portsmouth

Salary

Circa £70,000 depending on skills and experience

Job Description

Act as the technical authority for software design, ensuring the integrity, safety, security, and compliance of all software solutions across the system lifecycle. Accountable for governing design decisions, assuring alignment with requirements and standards, and providing independent technical oversight to support certification, safety cases, and product security. Lead complex technical analyses, guide strategic design choices, and ensure robust, evidence-based solutions to capability challenges, ultimately enabling the safe, reliable, and effective delivery of system functionality.

Core Duties

• Own and govern software design integrity, ensuring all architectures and implementations meet defined requirements, standards, and lifecycle controls and assu...