Software Architect (IT Security)

Quick Facts

• Role: Software Architect (IT Security)

• Focus: Software architecture for safety, security, and certification (aerospace context)

• Location: Bremen (flexible hours and option for mobile work)

Description

In this role, you design and evolve secure software architectures that meet high requirements for Safety, Security, and DO-178C certifiability. You integrate IT-security needs using security-by-design principles, perform threat modeling, and support complex architecture decisions in an international aerospace environment.

Responsibilities

• Concept, design, and further develop scalable and robust software architectures

• Integrate IT-security requirements following security-by-design

• Apply BSI IT-Grundschutz and relevant cybersecurity and aerospace standards

• Ensure compliance with architecture requirements and security policies during software development

• Plan software approval strategy for DO-178C and partition software components by criticality (DAL)

• Conduct threat modeling to identify potential attack vectors

• Create and maintain high-level and low-level architecture documentation

• Define and secure interfaces between software modules and between software and hardware

• Select technologies, frameworks, and architecture patterns considering performance, certification, and cybersecurity

• Provide expert support to development teams on complex design and architecture decisions

Requirements

• Completed degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or comparable qualification

• Solid professional experience in software architecture/design of complex software systems

• In-depth development knowledge with C/C++

• Experience with complex distributed or safety-critical systems and modern architecture patterns

• Knowledge of software certification according to DO-178C and ideally experience in the aerospace/avionics sector

• Sound knowledge of information and cybersecurity (e.g., BSI IT-Grundschutz or ISO/IEC 27001)

• Knowledge of Threat Modeling and Risk Assessment plus modern development and CI/CD environments

• Good understanding of the interaction between functional safety (Safety) and information security (Security)

• Proficiency with UML and modeling tools

• Very good German and negotiable English

• Independent, structured working style and high sense of responsibility, integrity, and reliability

Benefits

• Direct employment with a permanent position

• Attractive compensation including special payments

• 30 vacation days plus additional days off for special occasions

• Flexible working hours between 06:00 and 19:00

• Option for mobile work

• Diverse development and training opportunities in an international, technology-intensive environment