Enterprise Architect

Job Description

Job Title: Enterprise Architect

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Circa £75,000 depending on skills and experience with executive car allowance and bonus on top

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading the design and alignment of enterprise architecture across national and organisational boundaries
• Developing and driving strategic roadmaps that support long-term collaboration and digital capability
• Assessing and shaping solution options, balancing business needs, security, compliance and interoperability
• Supporting the integration of collaboration platforms, cloud architectures and secure data environments
• Facilitating process alignment and helping to define business capability models within a secure ecosystem
• Acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, guiding architectural decisions and change initiatives

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Experience of working with enterprise systems supporting processes operated by a global workforce
• Demonstrable experience with one of the following: PLM systems, SAP or Manufacturing systems of work
• Familiarity with highly regulated or security-focused environments
• Excellent stakeholder management experience with the ability to guide and influence
• Strong analytical and business analysis skills

Desirable:

• Proven experience in enterprise or business architecture

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 AUKUS IT Enablement team:

By joining us in the team, we’re offering a rare opportunity for a Senior Enterprise Architect to play a pivotal role in shaping the strategic collaboration between the UK and Australia as part of the AUKUS programme. This is a chance to collaborate as a team and influence enterprise-level transformation on a global scale.

You’ll lead the development of strategic roadmaps and enterprise solutions, ensuring that technology, process, and organisational goals are fully aligned. Your work will underpin the capability needed to deliver one of the most complex and critical defence programmes in the world. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

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: 23rd October 2025

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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