Senior Business Architect

Babcock

  • Bristol Area
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 27 days ago
Job Title: Senior Business ArchitectLocation: BristolCompensation: Competitive + BenefitsRole Type: Full time / PermanentRole ID: SF66119At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Business Architect.The roleAs a Senior Business Architect. you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. This is a pivotal role drives excellence in high-stakes defence programmes, blending deep expertise with strategic collaboration across government, partners, and design innovators.Day-to-day, you'll lead high-impact defence programmes with the MOD and industry partners-delivering excellence through expert leadership, technical insight, and collaborative design. Additionally, you will:
  • Analyse business processes, systems, and data to create architecture models through documentation review and SME engagement
  • Develop 'as-is' and 'to-be' architectures to inform solution design and transformation strategies
  • Work consultatively with internal leaders and MOD clients to define and communicate strategic direction
  • Apply systems thinking to develop user and system requirements, ensuring architectural alignment with technical teams
  • Collaborate across internal teams, partners, and suppliers, using proactive stakeholder engagement to drive successful delivery
This role is full time working 35 hours per week and requires regular travel across a range of sites on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.Essential experience of the Senior Business Architect:
  • Significant practical experience of the application of model driven architecture (framework agnostic) in support of business transformation.
  • Product ownership experience within an agile delivery framework within a highly regulated environment i.e Nuclear or similar
  • Previous demonstrable experience with Digital Manufacturing Systems, Product Lifecycle Management systems would be an advantage.
  • Able to guide and lead less experienced team members in model driven architecture.
Qualifications for the Senior Business Architect:
  • An education to degree level in an IT related discipline or proven working experience of complex system design
Security ClearanceThe successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain 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. Further details are available at .What we offer
  • Generous holiday allowance
  • 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 is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
  • 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
  • Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock InternationalFor over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.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.Closing date: 31/08/2025#BABDESTNUC

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