Solution Architect

BAE Systems; England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense and aerospace company is seeking a Solution Architect in Barrow-in-Furness. This role involves business analysis, stakeholder management, and solution architecture to support submarine design projects. Ideal candidates will have skills in identifying customer requirements and managing risks. Competitive salary of circa £60,000 and benefits including flexible working arrangements are offered.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Health and wellbeing benefits

Shopping discounts

Annual incentive eligibility

Qualifications

• Competent in capturing and understanding customer requirements.
• Competent in stakeholder management and engagement.
• Knowledge and experience in modelling and solution architecture.
• Competent in identifying risks and opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Undertaking business analysis with customers and eliciting requirements.
• Aligning incoming demand to the strategic roadmap.
• Supporting Demand Management meetings.
• Defining Solution Options in line with customer requirements.
• Producing Architecture Packs for customer demand.
• Producing High Level Designs for IT projects.
• Production of weekly performance metrics.

Skills

Understanding customer requirements

Stakeholder management

Modelling and solution architecture

Risk and opportunity identification

Job description

Job Title: Solution Architect

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £60,000 depending on skills and experience

What You’ll Be Doing

• Undertaking business analysis with customers and eliciting their requirements
• Aligning incoming demand to the functional and overall strategic roadmap
• Supporting the Demand Management meetings to help route demand appropriately to delivery teams
• Defining Solution Options in line with customer requirements
• Producing Architecture Packs to communicate complexity surrounding customer demand
• Producing High Level Designs to gain quotations from the IT service provider and mobilise IT projects
• Production of weekly performance metrics for IT management
  
  

Essential

Your skills and experiences:

• Competent in capturing and understanding customer requirements
• Competent in stakeholder management and engagement
• Knowledge and experience in modelling and solution architecture
• Competent in identifying risks and opportunities
  
  

Desirable

• Knowledge and experience of The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
• Knowledge and experience of Business Analysis Process
• Knowledge of the IT function – teams within the function and their high level responsibilities
  
  

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Product Development Architecture Team

By joining the team, you will have a fantastic opportunity to be heavily involved in our largest Submarine programme and work with our external partners to support in the invention/creation of the submarine design and build. The shipyard has senior commitment and ambition to strengthen the submarine design discipline exploiting digital thread capabilities to improve business performance. The role will be part of the team inventing this future capability. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 8th August 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.