IM&T Senior Leader – Enterprise Architecture

Job Title: IM&T Senior Leader – Enterprise Architecture

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: £75,000+ with executive level benefits including bonus and car allowance.

What you’ll be doing:

• Develop and manage a single aligned roadmap across IT/OT capabilities to target investments and maximise project delivery value
• Define and implement an IM&T strategy that supports the broader objectives of the business
• Lead the coordination of IM&T Product Group strategies and roadmaps to align with Business Unit and Sector goals
• Evaluate the suitability of submarines’ business capabilities and guide investment prioritisation to address business needs
• Oversee the “Programme Architecture,” managing cross-project dependencies, risks, and planning within the joint programme of work
• Coordinate and validate IM&T innovation activities, ensuring they are strategically sound and can inform future solution designs

Your skills and experiences:

• Demonstrated experience leading teams and managing within an IT function, including coordinating cross-functional IM&T strategies and roadmaps
• Proven ability to oversee and guide complex programmes, ensuring alignment with business objectives and managing dependencies and risks
• Significant expertise in enterprise architecture, including developing and managing IT/OT integration strategies and aligning business functional strategies with technical capabilities. (at least 10 years experience)
• Experience overseeing “Programme Architecture” to ensure cohesive planning, dependency management, and risk mitigation
• Ability to assess the “fit for purpose” level of business capabilities and guide investment priorities to align with holistic business needs
• Strong familiarity with IT trends, good practices, and the delivery of key projects across Solution Definition, Design, and Delivery skill sets
• Experience driving IM&T innovation activities, ensuring outcomes are strategically aligned and integrated into future solution designs

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 Enterprise Strategy and Planning team:

The role involves aligning business strategies with IT/OT capabilities through a unified roadmap to maximise value and manage cross-dependencies across portfolios. Responsibilities include defining and implementing an IM&T strategy, integrating Product Group roadmaps, prioritising investments, managing programme architecture dependencies and risks, and driving IM&T innovation to ensure future solutions meet business objectives. 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, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also 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: 29th January 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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