Job title: Senior Architect
Location: Portsmouth – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements– please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: Circa £65,000 dependent on skills and experience What you’ll be doing:
* Participate in Combat System architecting activities including workshops and formal meetings as required by the customer
* Production of architectural; solution, guidance, specification and standards provision, leading on allocated tasks
* Engage and manage stakeholders, undertake systems analysis, production of conceptual and logical architecture models, reference architectures, specifications and standards
* Keep up to date with latest systems architecture patterns, techniques, and associated industry technologies (including Combat Systems)
* Contribute to defining architecture policies and apply best practice, help improve architectural team maturity over time, maintain and manage architectural models and documents
* Deliver high quality outputs to time and budget
* Motivate and inspire colleagues – creating architecture where purpose, and the mechanism for adherence by others is clearly understood and realised
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
* Strong background in formal systems engineering
* Highly experienced in a senior architecture role
* In depth technology expertise, and wide experience of tailoring architecture frameworks, methods, and approaches in different contexts
Desirable:
* Formal certification in architectural frameworks, preferably TOGAF and UAF
* Experience of Enterprise Architect, MATLAB, System Composer
* Combat systems experience
Candidates should possess an academic qualification in Engineering or other related STEM subjects as well as specific (either academic or professional) qualifications and become recognised as Incorporated or Chartered Engineers through an appropriate recognised professional institution. Engineers are encouraged, and will be supported, to achieve the relevant accreditation. Preference will be given to candidates who are already professionally registered. 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. Th