Babcock
Enterprise Architect
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A Principal IT Architect is a lead-level professional role in the Systems Architects discipline of the IT and Digital role family. This role draws upon specialised depth and breadth of expertise to undertake complex assignments, and provides technical leadership and direction to junior roles. They may also lead teams of professional associates within the discipline
Description
Job Title: Enterprise Architect
Location: Any of our UK locations + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF75586
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Enterprise Architect at any of our UK sites.
The Role
As an Enterprise Architect, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the strategic technology direction of a complex, international organisation. This is an exciting opportunity to influence enterprise-wide decision-making, working closely with senior leaders to align technology investments with business objectives. You'll help define the future technology landscape, driving innovation, efficiency, resilience, and long-term value across the organisation.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to projects that support critical national infrastructure and defence capabilities, while developing your own leadership, strategic planning, and architecture expertise in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment.
- Represent enterprise architecture in executive forums, providing insight and recommendations that influence strategic decisions.
- Creating and presenting enterprise architecture roadmaps that align technology capabilities to business goals.
- Establishing and maintaining architecture principles, standards, and governance across technology domains.
- Contributing architectural insight to the prioritisation of technology projects, programmes, and investments.
- Identifying opportunities to improve, simplify, standardise, and modernise the technology landscape.
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This role is full-time 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Enterprise Architect
- Demonstrable experience in enterprise architecture, systems architecture, and architecture modelling tools.
- Experience developing strategic technology plans and translating them into actionable roadmaps.
- Ability to transform complex business requirements into scalable, sustainable architecture solutions.
- Strong understanding of business strategy and aligning technology architecture to organisational objectives.
- Knowledge of modern technology environments including microservices, APIs, data platforms, and cybersecurity principles.
Qualifications for the Enterprise Architect
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
- Professional architecture or technical certifications such as TOGAF, Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert, Cisco Certified Network Associate, or equivalent - Desirable
Security Clearance
The 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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK.
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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 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
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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.
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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 24/09/2026
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