Job Title: Solution Architect
Location: RAF Brize Norton + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Shape the Future of Defence and Aerospace Technology
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 RAF Brize Norton, near Carterton, Oxfordshire.
The role
As a Solution Architect, you’ll play a key role in shaping the technology solutions that underpin critical defence aviation operations. This is an opportunity to work at the forefront of secure engineering and digital transformation, helping design complex solutions that support national security and make a lasting societal impact.
This role places you at the heart of our Solution Delivery function, where you will influence future technologies, drive innovation, and work on projects that will challenge and grow your expertise.
Day-to-day, you’ll develop your career in defence, aerospace, and engineering fields that are dynamic, meaningful, and essential to the nation’s.
1. Develop and document business requirements, architectures, and solution designs.
2. Deliver bid and project solutions in line with ITIL governance standards.
3. Partner with project managers within a structured delivery framework.
4. Assess existing software and hardware interfaces to support future capabilities.
5. Provide facilitation, planning, and technical guidance to ensure clarity and alignment across stakeholders.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.
Essential experience of the Solution Architect
6. Experience within the aviation industry, ideally in a secure military environment.
7. Background as an experienced IT professional working on large-scale technical solutions.
8. Demonstrable experience designing solutions for complex, enterprise-level projects.
9. Broad experience of project-based technology and solution delivery.
10. Strong customer-facing consultancy experience.
Qualifications for the Solution Architect
11. Technical qualifications such as MCSE or CCNA (or equivalent).
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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
12. Generous holiday allowance
13. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
14. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
15. Employee share scheme
16. Employee shopping savings portal
17. Payment of Professional Fees
18. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
19. Holiday Trading – buy or sell up to one working week of leave
20. ‘Be Kind Day’ – one paid volunteering day each year
21. Flexible working options
22. A dynamic working environment that supports your career and personal development
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, 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.
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