Enterprise Architect

Job Title: Enterprise Architect

Location: UK, Hybrid

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70972

Create the future of secure engineering

Company

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Enterprise Architect at Wigmore Street, near Central London, Greater London.

The role

As an Enterprise Architect, you will shape the technology direction of a global organisation delivering critical services in defence, aerospace and engineering. This is an exciting opportunity to influence enterprise wide decision making, modernise IT capabilities, and ensure technology solutions directly support Babcock's strategic ambitions. Day to day, your work will help protect national security, enable major transformation programmes, and strengthen the digital backbone of the organisation all while offering you exceptional professional growth and exposure to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Represent enterprise architecture at executive forums, providing insight that shapes major strategic decisions.
• Define and communicate the enterprise architecture vision, ensuring alignment with long term business goals and digital transformation priorities.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, advocating for sustainable, scalable and secure technology solutions.
• Establish architectural principles, standards and policies that support consistency and quality across all technology domains.
• Create and present enterprise architecture and solution outlines, ensuring full traceability back to business strategies.

Essential Experience

• Demonstrable experience designing technical solutions for large scale, complex environments.
• Strong background working with technologies such as Microsoft, VMware, Citrix and Oracle.
• Proven experience in system architecture and technology governance.
• Ability to develop strategic plans, convert them into actionable roadmaps and translate complex business needs into scalable solutions.
• Understanding of modern technologies including microservices, APIs, data platforms and cybersecurity principles.

Qualifications

• Technical qualifications such as MCSE, CCNA or TOGAF.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held.

Benefits

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of professional fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10 days' special paid leave
• Holiday Trading: buy or sell up to one working week of leave
• 'Be Kind Day' - one paid volunteering day each year
• Flexible working options to support your work life balance
• A dynamic working environment focused on innovation and collaboration
• Single Private Medical Insurance (PMI) included

Inclusion and EEO

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Babcock

We're Babcock a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference. Here, you'll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we're building a future that lasts not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.