Join Our Team as a Lead Solution Architect
Location: Warton - Enjoy the flexibility of hybrid working arrangements! Speak to your recruiter about the options available for this role.
Salary: Starting at £61,110, with potential for more based on experience.
What You'll Be Doing:
* Defining Solution Architecture: Craft the architecture and design for projects that align with business and system requirements, all while adhering to cost and time constraints.
* Capturing Architectures: Define the current and future application, data, and technology architectures for your assigned projects.
* Ensuring Quality: Assure that the overall functional and technical design of solutions is both acceptable and fit for purpose.
* Providing Design Leadership: Lead the IM&T solution design and collaborate with third-party product teams to ensure effective communication of architectural needs.
* Liaising with Stakeholders: Work closely with internal and external IM&T suppliers and product teams.
* Supporting Project Management: Collaborate with Project Managers to develop project plans, review estimates, and identify potential challenges.
Your Skills and Experiences:
Essential:
* Proven experience in the design, development, testing, and release of Information Systems.
* Strong skills in incident and problem management.
* Effective stakeholder management, influencing local organizations, customers, suppliers, partners, and peers.
* Familiarity with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.
Desirable:
* Architecture qualifications, such as TOGAF.
* Additional industry qualifications, such as BCS.
Benefits:
At BAE Systems, we offer a competitive pension scheme along with a variety of employee share plans. Enjoy an extensive range of flexible, discounted health, wellbeing, and lifestyle benefits, including:
* Green car scheme
* Private health plans
* Shopping discounts
You may also be eligible for an annual incentive!
About the Engineering Systems Competency Centre:
Join our ESCC Team, a dynamic cross-functional group that collaborates across Engineering, Manufacturing, and Support Services to deliver critical technical solutions and system support. Work with engineering software vendors, application owners, and internal stakeholders to ensure tools and processes run efficiently across global projects. This is your chance to thrive in an innovative environment that champions collaboration and global engineering excellence!
Why Choose BAE Systems?
Here, you can truly make a difference! We foster an inclusive culture that values diverse perspectives, rewards integrity and merit, and empowers you to reach your full potential. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and strive to make our recruitment processes as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessments, please discuss potential reasonable adjustments with your recruiter.
Important Security Information: Many roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export control restrictions. Factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth may affect your eligibility for certain roles. All applicants must meet the Baseline Personnel Security Standard, with many roles requiring higher levels of National Security Vetting, typically necessitating 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK.
Closing Date: 12th February 2026
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. If you're interested, we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible!
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