IT Solution Architect - Facilities- Submarines

Rolls-Royce; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor in the UK is seeking an IT Solution Architect to join their team in Derby. The role involves leading architectural design, ensuring compliance with standards, and driving user experience improvements. Ideal candidates will have a relevant degree, demonstrated technical leadership, and experience in global business environments. This position offers a competitive salary, excellent development opportunities, and a flexible hybrid working arrangement.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• Degree qualified or equivalent experience with chartered status preferred.
• Demonstrates technical leadership in complex technical activities.
• Experience in a global business environment managing distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead design of architecture for integrated solutions.
• Ensure standards are adhered to in design and documentation.
• Provide advice on technical aspects of systems development.

Skills

Technical leadership

Design interpretation

User experience focus

Agile methodologies

Education

Degree in relevant discipline

Job description

Overview

Job title - JR6143246 IT Solution Architect - Facilities (Open)

Working Pattern - Full Time

Working Location - Derby, Raynesway

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an IT Solution Architect to join the Rolls-Royce Submarines Business in Derby. As an IT Solution Architect you will need to understand and communicate the role and impact of Information Technology within the Infrastructure Delivery Business Unit and the implications and delivery patterns of new and existing technologies.

Why Rolls-Royce?

At Rolls-Royce Submarines we support the Royal Navy as the technical authority to the UK Ministry of Defence for naval reactor plants. We are also growing our submarine and nuclear sector capabilities.

Join us and we’ll provide an environment where you can be yourself. An inclusive, digital-first culture that invests in you, gives you a platform for continuous learning and access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career.

What we offer:

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you’ll be doing

You will do the interpretation of business requirements to enable and guide design of integrated solutions meeting current and future backlog items.

• Lead design of architecture within the Infrastructure Delivery Business Unit for integrated solutions in line with enterprise architectural standards, reference architectures and enterprise roadmaps across data, Infrastructure, process, and service.
• Ensure applicable standards are adhered to in terms of design and documentation of the product solutions.
• Provide advice on technical aspects of systems development and integration in line with technical strategies, standards etc.
• Focus on ‘how’ related to designing a highly functional user experience.
• In product designs focus on user experience and automation.
• Design stories to improve user experience, user interfaces and automation across the agile team.
• Shared ownership for supporting and monitoring the products (Product/Application Support Level 2).

Who we’re looking for

At Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

• Degree qualified or equivalent experience in a relevant discipline, with chartered status preferred.
• Demonstrates technical leadership in complex technical and/or professional work activities, including the analysis of designs, delivery options and plans.
• Experience of leading and working in a global business environment and managing distributed teams.
• Good business understanding and deep understanding of own specialism(s).
• Ability to undertake work which requires the application of fundamental principles in a wide and often unpredictable range of contexts.
• Advises on the available standards, methods, tools, and applications relevant to own specialism and can make appropriate choices from alternatives, actively seeks to understand the implications of new technologies and industry developments, communicating the opportunity and impact to the team.

We’re an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

To work for Rolls-Royce Submarines you need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you don’t currently already have this in place.

Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets, you must hold a UK nationality. Any dual nationals will require additional scrutiny and background checks prior to commencing work with RRSL.

Job Category: Information Technology

Posting Date: 27 Oct 2025; 00:10

Posting End Date: 10 Nov 2025