UTM / OpenAir Technical Architect

NATS (National Air Traffic Services) are looking for a a senior technical authority with strong UTM (Unmanned Traffic Management) experience to lead the architecture and technical design of software-intensive, safety-critical systems. The role focuses on big data platforms, API-driven services, and cloud-native architectures supporting UTM/OpenAir capabilities.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong UTM knowledge, including:

• SORA / UK SORA, JARUS, ASTM F3548, Remote ID, U-space

• Experience designingAPI-first systems:

• REST, event-driven / pub-sub architectures
• OpenAPI / AsyncAPI standards

• Proven background with big data and complexdatasets, including:

• Geo-spatial and/or time-series data
• Data modelling at scale

• Cloud-native architecture experience:

• Kubernetes, containerisation, microservices
• AWS / Azure / GCP
• Scalable, highly available, multi-region designs

• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible or similar)
• Understanding of safety-critical and regulated environments, including assurance considerations (e.g. CAP670, ED-109A, DO-178C).

Desirable Experience:

• SWIM concepts and aviation data standards
• Ability to understand geo-spatial / time-series databases (such as PostGIS, timescaledb) and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards - both raster and vector formats
• Advanced API testing and automation
• Distributed systems and federated architectures
• Predictive modelling or algorithmic complexity awareness