Application Architect

Job Description

Job Title: Application Architect

Location: Warton ideally, other sites can be considered – we offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £74,000 + executive benefits

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead application domain strategy for the Air Sector, setting the vision and roadmap for application solutions within a specific business domain or area
• Oversee the Application Portfolio Management (APM) activities to manage obsolescence, and rationalisation of the applications used in the Sector
• Define and design application architecture blueprints and ensure alignment with business goals and technical standards
• Collaborate with functional application business owners and technical owners to deliver a consistent and coherent set of application roadmaps
• Ensure application specific data is owned, managed and curated within the Sector Configuration Management Data Base (CMDB) repository
• Ensure application integration through designing and enforce standards for integrating applications with existing systems and platforms
• Evaluate and recommend technologies – Research, select, and justify technology stacks, frameworks, and tools to support application development. – Define standards and best practices
• Establish coding standards, design principles, and governance to maintain consistency and quality
• Oversee solution delivery – Provide architectural guidance throughout the software development lifecycle to ensure compliance with design
• Identify application architectural risks and ensure solutions meet security, regulatory, and performance requirements
• Support and train technical teams on architectural decisions and best practices
• Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies to evolve architecture and improve application performance

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Experience in the delivery of application architecture standards and governance in a complex business environment
• Familiarity with IT governance frameworks
• A good communicator with the ability to influence both internal and external stakeholders
• Experience in people management

Desirable:

• Relevant Architecture or IT qualifications such as STEM degree, TOGAF or ITIL
• Proficiency with Enterprise Architecture Modelling practices

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Group IM&T team

Working with Group IM&T to design an overall structure for the applications used by the sector, setting standards and overseeing their implementation.

Our goal is to ensure functional application roadmaps are agreed and recorded in the architecture repository and that they work together evaluating technology and managing risk to optimise performance, security and efficiency across the sector Maintaining the architecture components of the Sector Business Capability model and proposed updates/changes to it.

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.

Closing Date: 3rd March 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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