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Job Title: IM&T Enterprise Business Architect
Location: Frimley, London, Leeds, Gloucester, Gt Baddow - hybrid
We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role
What you'll be doing
As an Enterprise Business Architect, you will define and own the future-state architecture for Digital Intelligence, ensuring it aligns with the IM&T vision and delivers measurable business outcomes such as agility, resilience, cost efficiency, and risk reduction. You will author and steward strategic principles—including cloud-first, low integration complexity, and zero trust—and embed them into governance through a robust decision-making rubric.
You will design and maintain the Target-State Architecture, covering capabilities, applications, data domains, integrations, and technology platforms, and produce transition architectures and sequenced roadmaps that balance risk, cost, and delivery pragmatism. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, you will shape investment decisions, lead benefit cases for architectural change, and ensure programmes can evidence benefits realisation through KPIs and value maps.
In addition, you will chair or co-chair Architecture Review Boards, approve standards exceptions with bounded risk, and uplift the architecture practice by setting modelling standards, mentoring peers, and ensuring evidence-linked modelling quality. You will collaborate with the Chief Enterprise Architect, Head of Technology Strategy, and stakeholders across engineering, operations, security, and compliance to embed the target vision into delivery and operations—creating a secure, resilient, and insight-led digital estate
Your skills and experiences
Essential:
* Extensive experience as a Business or Enterprise Architect shaping future-state architectures in large, regulated environments.
* Proven leadership in architecture governance, standards stewardship, and investment influence.
* Expertise in business capability modelling, portfolio and roadmap planning, and value mapping.
* Deep understanding of cloud strategy, data governance, integration patterns, cybersecurity, and risk management.
* Ability to translate complex technical and business concepts into clear, senior-level narratives and visualisations.
* Strong proficiency with EA tooling (e.g., Bizzdesign) and disciplined meta-model practices, ensuring evidence-linked modelling.
* Exceptional stakeholder leadership across business, engineering, operations, security, compliance, and finance.
* Proficiency with AI Assisted Tooling
* Minimum SC clearance; DV may be required.
Desirable:
* Experience with ServiceNow CMDB/API catalogues, AWS/Azure reference architectures, and zero trust patterns.
* Professional certifications such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, or BCS Enterprise Architecture
Benefits
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing & lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive
IM&T underpins business operations and is embedded in the activities of every Function and Sector. Delivering efficient and effective IM&T requires all parts of our organisation to work together:
IM&T Vision
The vision of the IM&T Function is to actively drive to enable a world-class, resilient, digital infrastructure within BAE Systems. We will work across digital, data and cyber to create a secure, insight-led, digitally-enabled working world within BAE systems to protect those that protect us.
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.
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