Job Title: Lead Solution Architect
Location: Warton – Enjoy the flexibility of hybrid working arrangements! Speak to your recruiter about the options available for this role.
Salary: £61,110 + depending on experience
What You’ll Be Doing:
* Defining Solution Architecture: Craft the architecture and design for projects that align with business and system requirements while adhering to cost and time constraints.
* Capturing Architectures: Define the current and future application, data, and technology architectures for your assigned projects.
* Ensuring Fit for Purpose: Assure that the overall functional and technical design of the solution meets expectations.
* Providing Design Leadership: Lead the IM&T solution design and collaborate with 3rd parties and product teams to ensure effective communication.
* Liaising with Suppliers: Work closely with both internal and external IM&T suppliers and product teams.
* Supporting Project Managers: Collaborate to develop project plans, review estimates and schedules, 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 like BCS.
Benefits:
At BAE Systems, we offer more than just a competitive salary. Enjoy a robust pension scheme, employee share plans, and a wide range of flexible health, wellbeing, and lifestyle benefits. This includes a green car scheme, private health plans, and shopping discounts. You may also be eligible for an annual incentive!
The Engineering Systems Competency Centre:
Join our dynamic ESCC Team, a cross-functional group dedicated to delivering critical technical solutions and system support. Collaborate with engineering software vendors, application owners, and internal stakeholders to ensure tools and processes run smoothly across global projects. This role offers exciting opportunities for international collaboration in a vibrant environment that fosters innovation and engineering excellence.
Why BAE Systems?
Here, you can truly make a difference! We pride ourselves on an inclusive culture that values diverse perspectives, rewards integrity, 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 previous nationalities, and your place of birth may affect your eligibility for certain positions. 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 may close this vacancy early if we receive a sufficient number of applications. If you’re interested, we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible!
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