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 meet 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 Quality: Assure that the overall functional and technical design of the solution is both acceptable and fit for purpose.
* 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 internal and external IM&T suppliers and product teams.
* Supporting Project Managers: Collaborate on 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 – influence local organizations, customers, suppliers, partners, and peers.
* Familiarity with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.
Desirable:
* Architecture qualification 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.
* A wide range of flexible, discounted health, wellbeing, and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme and private health plans.
* Shopping discounts and potential eligibility 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 efficiently across global projects. This is your chance to thrive in an environment that fosters collaboration, innovation, and global engineering excellence.
Why BAE Systems?
Here, you can truly make a difference! Be part of 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 can 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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