Solution Architect

Babcock International Group; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP & Aviva DigiCare+

Employee shopping portal

Professional fees paid

10 days special paid leave for Reserv­

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Solution Architect to shape technical solutions across defence digital programmes. You’ll translate business and security requirements into robust designs, guide architectures and collaborate with partners to ensure delivery aligns with standards.

Based in Devonport, Bristol or Leicester with hybrid work patterns; SC clearance is required and you will contribute to national security through complex systems integration and architecture work.

Qualifications

• Essential: BCS Practitioner Certificate in Enterprise and Solutions Architecture.
• Advantageous: additional certifications in enterprise architecture, cyber security or enterprise systems.
• Security clearance required: SC clearance.

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.

Skills

Sparx EA

ArchiMate

C4 notation

InfoSec basics

Systems integration

Stakeholder comms

Architecture docs

Education

BCS Practitioner Certificate in Enterprise and Solutions Architecture

Job description

Job Title: Solution Architect

Compensation: £44,600 - £71,600 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76765

Shape the digital solutions that support the UK's critical defence infrastructure

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.

The role

As a Solution Architect, you'll play a key role in shaping technical solutions from concept through to deployment. Working within our architecture team, you'll translate business and technical requirements into robust solution designs, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards, security requirements and operational needs.

Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• 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.

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.

Essential experience of the Solution Architect

• 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.

Qualifications for the Solution Architect

Essential:

• Relevant qualification in technical architecture and solution design, such as the BCS Practitioner Certificate in Enterprise and Solutions Architecture.

Advantageous:

• 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.

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) .

What We Offer

• 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

Babcock

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.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We're a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header Reasonable adjustments requirement. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 24/11/2026