IT Solution Architect

Raytheon UK; Glenrothes; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.

Private Medical Insurance

Company bonus scheme 5% (discretionary

Flexible Benefits including HealthCash

Job summary

Raytheon UK is seeking an IT Solution Architect to bridge business needs with technology, designing scalable, secure solutions across applications, systems, and services. The role offers hybrid work options, enabling on-site and remote collaboration in a fast-paced defence and aerospace environment.

You will contribute to technology roadmaps, governance, and architectural standards while partnering with product managers and PMO to ensure a robust architectural runway for future business needs.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of enterprise, application, security, and network architecture principles.
• Experience designing and implementing solutions across Microsoft, Linux, and cloud environments.
• Knowledge of cloud technologies and multi-cloud architectures.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, translating business requirements into effective solutions.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams and stakeholder management.
• Familiarity with architectural frameworks and modelling tools (UML, ArchiMate) and IT service management best practices (ITIL).
• Exposure to a broad range of technologies and enterprise environments.
• Understanding of emerging technology trends and their application to business transformation.

Responsibilities

• Design high-level and low-level architectural designs to guide solution development across products, services, projects, and systems.
• Contribute to technology roadmaps, technical strategy and architectural principles.
• Attend governance forums to ensure architecture assurance and compliance.
• Adhere to standards and solution patterns to align with future-state architecture vision.
• Collaborate with product owners/managers to maintain an architectural runway for future requirements.
• Work with PMO to align project plans with promised outcomes.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Stakeholder management

Cloud architectures

Communication skills

Security and network principles

Cross-functional collaboration

Architecture frameworks

Tools

UML

ArchiMate

ITIL

TOGAF

Job description

• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Company bonus scheme 5% (discretionary)
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave
• Private Medical Insurance

Work Culture

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
• Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.

Location

Harlow, Glenrothes or Livingston (Hybrid with 3 days a week on site)

SC Required

Eligible for SC

About Us

At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.

Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do. Together, we are not just advancing technology; we're building a community committed to safeguarding a safer and more connected world.

Our Business

As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers.

With circa 2000 employees and major facilities operating throughout the UK including Broughton (Wales), Livingston and Glenrothes (Scotland), and Harlow, Gloucester, and Manchester (England); we are committed to investing in British careers and technology development.

About the role:

As an IT Solution Architect, you'll bridge business needs and technology, designing scalable, secure, and effective solutions across applications, systems, and services. Join a culture built on trust, collaboration, and innovation, where your ideas are valued and your career development is actively supported.

Main Duties:

The Solution Architect will demonstrate competencies across three key areas:

Design and Analysis

• Ability to create high-level and low-level architectural designs to guide solution development across products, services, projects, and systems (including applications, technologies, processes, and information).
• Contribute to technology roadmaps, technical strategy and architectural principles.

Delivery

• Attends required governance forums associated with ensuring solutions architecture assurance and compliance.
• Adheres to the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
• Contributes to the creation of new standards and patterns.

Facilitates and Collaborates to Deliver Business Outcomes

• Works closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
• Works closely with the Programme Management Office (PMO) or project management office to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the project or product lifecycle

Candidate Requirements:

• Strong understanding of enterprise, application, security, and network architecture principles.
• Experience designing and implementing solutions across Microsoft, Linux, and cloud environments.
• Knowledge of cloud technologies and multi-cloud architectures.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into effective solutions.
• Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams, demonstrating strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
• Understanding of architectural frameworks, modelling tools (e.g. UML, ArchiMate), and IT service management best practices (e.g. ITIL).
• Exposure to a broad range of technologies, platforms, and enterprise environments.
• Understanding of emerging technology trends and their application to business transformation and innovation.
• Experience working within regulated or compliance-driven environments.
• Hands-on experience designing and delivering cloud-based solutions in AWS and/or Azure.
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks and methodologies, such as TOGAF.

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