IT Solution Architect

Prattwhitney; Harlow; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension scheme

Life Assurance

Holiday allowance

Car allowance

Bonus scheme

Flexible benefits

Sick pay

Family leave

Private medical insurance

Job summary

Raytheon UK is seeking an IT Solution Architect to bridge business needs and technology, designing scalable, secure 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.

You will work closely with product owners and cross-functional teams to ensure an architectural runway that can support future business requirements, in a hybrid role based in Harlow with

Qualifications

• Proven experience in solution architecture, application design, or infrastructure architecture.
• Strong understanding of enterprise, application, security, and network architecture principles.
• Experience designing and implementing solutions across Microsoft, Linux, and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design high-level and low-level architectural designs to guide solution development.
• Contribute to technology roadmaps, technical strategy and architectural principles.
• Attend governance forums to ensure architecture assurance and compliance.
• Adhere to standards and patterns ensuring alignment with future-state vision.
• Collaborate to create new standards and patterns.
• Work with product owners to ensure a robust architectural runway across the product lifecycle.
• Coordinate with PMO to align project execution with promises.

Skills

Solution architecture

Stakeholder management

Cloud architectures

Communication

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

UML

ArchiMate

ITIL

Job description

Date Posted: 2026-08-07 Country: United Kingdom Location: Harlow, Essex Position Role Type: Hybrid

Benefits

• £: Competitive salary
• 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)
• Car/Car allowance
• Company bonus scheme 5% (discretionary)
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
• Enhanced sick pay
• 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

Essential

• Proven experience in solution architecture, application design, or infrastructure architecture.
• 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).

Desirable

• 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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