Support Solutions Architect

Babcock International Group; Salisbury; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension scheme

Digital GP and health checks

Employee shopping portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists leave (10 days)

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Support Solutions Architect in Andover, Hampshire, to design through-life support solutions aligned with customer needs and defence sector requirements.

The role involves working across multidisciplinary teams, contributing to bids, proposals and new business opportunities while delivering value for money and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Experience developing customer-focused solutions for bids, proposals or business opportunities.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Experience working within structured project or programme environments.
• Ability to develop innovative, value-for-money solutions to complex challenges.

Responsibilities

• Develop innovative through-life support solutions that meet customer and business requirements.
• Analyse complex requirements and translate them into compelling bid and proposal content.
• Collaborate with customers, partners, suppliers and internal stakeholders to shape future capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to improve existing services through innovation, technology and best practice.
• Support business-winning activities, negotiations and solution development across multiple programmes.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Bid content

Team collaboration

Communication

Defence knowledge

Job description

Location: Andover, Hampshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary Dependent on Experience + Comprehensive Benefits Package

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75314

Shape the future of defence support solutions

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Support Solutions Architect at Andover, Hampshire.

Job Title: Support Solutions Architect

The role

As a Support Solutions Architect, you'll be responsible for developing through-life support solutions that meet customer requirements while delivering innovation, value for money and operational excellence. You'll work across multidisciplinary teams, contributing to bids, proposals and new business opportunities within the defence sector.

Day-to-day, you will be:

• Developing innovative through-life support solutions that meet customer and business requirements.
• Analysing complex requirements and translating them into compelling bid and proposal content.
• Collaborating with customers, partners, suppliers and internal stakeholders to shape future capabilities.
• Identifying opportunities to improve existing services through innovation, technology and best practice.
• Supporting business-winning activities, negotiations and solution development across multiple programmes.

This role is based at Andover with hybrid working patterns available. The position is full-time, working 37 hours per week, with a minimum of three days per week on site.

Essential experience of the Support Solutions Architect:

• Experience developing customer-focused solutions for bids, proposals or business opportunities.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Experience working within structured project or programme environments.
• Ability to develop innovative, value-for-money solutions to complex challenges.
• Proven experience working collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams and delivering results to demanding timescales.

Qualifications for the Support Solutions Architect:

• Relevant professional experience within defence, engineering support, logistics support, supportability, business-winning or related environments.
• Experience developing through-life support solutions would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of defence, resilience, aerospace, maritime, land or related sectors would be beneficial.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security 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 26,000 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 are 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: 19/08/2026