Solution Architect

Babcock International; Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health check

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Principal IT Architect to define solution architectures and lead complex digital programme designs. The role requires deep expertise in architecture artefacts, data flows, and integration strategies, with a clear ability to influence stakeholders across multiple levels.

The successful candidate will provide technical leadership, drive assurance activities, and collaborate with customers and partners to deliver secure, scalable solutions within the IT and Digital domain.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in technical architecture and solution design.
• Strong understanding of information security principles, governance and architecture best practices.
• Demonstrable experience designing and delivering complex systems integration solutions.
• Ability to communicate effectively and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Relevant qualification in technical architecture and solution design such as the BCS Practitioner Certificate.

Responsibilities

• Defining solution architectures, system components, integration points and data flows for complex digital programmes.
• Translating functional and non-functional requirements into high-level technical designs and architecture artefacts.
• Presenting solution options and recommendations through stakeholder workshops and architecture reviews.
• Leading technical assurance activities, managing risks and supporting delivery through implementation and deployment.
• Collaborating with customers, software partners and internal teams to resolve complex technical challenges and ensure alignment with architecture standards.

Skills

Technical architecture

Architecture design

Information security

Stakeholder influence

Architecture documentation

Education

BCS Practitioner Certificate in Enterprise and Solutions Architecture

Tools

Sparx Enterprise Architect

ArchiMate

C4 notation

Job description

Responsibilities

• Defining solution architectures, system components, integration points and data flows for complex digital programmes.
• Translating functional and non-functional requirements into high-level technical designs and architecture artefacts.
• Presenting solution options and recommendations through stakeholder workshops, proposals and architecture reviews.
• Leading technical assurance activities, managing risks and supporting delivery through implementation and deployment.
• Collaborating with customers, software partners and internal teams to resolve complex technical challenges and ensure alignment with architecture standards.

Role Details

This role is 37 hours per week and can be based at Devonport Royal Dockyard, Plymouth, Babcock Technology Centre, Bristol, or Leicester, with hybrid working patterns available and an expectation of approximately two days per week onsite., A Principal IT Architect is a lead-level professional role in the Systems Architects discipline of the IT and Digital role family. This role draws upon specialised depth and breadth of expertise to undertake complex assignments, and provides technical leadership and direction to junior roles. They may also lead teams of professional associates within the discipline

Requirements

• Proven experience in technical architecture and solution design using tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect and architecture such as ArchiMate or the C4 notation..
• Strong understanding of information security principles, governance and architecture best practices.
• Demonstrable experience designing and delivering complex systems integration solutions.
• Ability to communicate effectively and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience in systems modelling and architecture documentation., Relevant qualification in technical architecture and solution design, such as the BCS Practitioner Certificate in Enterprise and Solutions Architecture.

Additional Requirements

• Additional certifications in enterprise architecture, cyber security or enterprise systems

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance for this role.

About Babcock

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Solution Architect at Babcock Technology Centre, Devonport, or Leicester, near Bristol, Plymouth or Leicester. This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing Digital Solutions team and help deliver innovative technology solutions that support one of the UK's most significant defence infrastructure programmes. Working at the forefront of defence, engineering and digital transformation, you'll collaborate with customers, programme partners and technical specialists to design secure, scalable solutions that support the maintenance and operation of the UK's submarine fleet. Your work will contribute directly to national security while developing your expertise within a complex and highly rewarding environment.

We're Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference. Here, you'll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we're building a future that lasts - not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

Eligibility

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity