Business Intelligence Architect

Location: Preston or any shared services site. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £48,000 – £69,000 depending on experience and skills

What you’ll be doing:

• Define, capture, maintain and govern a clear Business Intelligence strategy which is repeatable having well defined patterns which are easy to follow.
• Enable the business to widely adopt self-serve Business Intelligence by providing clear guidance, guardrails and solutions.
• Ensure the Business Intelligence solution is scalable, robust and maintainable to meet the growing needs of the business across the UK and rest of world.
• Monitor changing industry trends to understand and review up and coming technologies in order to embed them into roadmaps as appropriate.
• Clearly articulate and present logically structured arguments for on-going changes to technologies and approaches as appropriate to encourage continual improvement.
• Create and manage Business Intelligence roadmaps in terms of both managing obsolescence and new technology leaps.
• Provide advice and mentorship to the wider delivery teams both in the centre and functional forward as required.
• Provide support and guidance to Business Intelligence developers within the central Data and Analytics team.
• Work with our key vendors and support partners to mature the Business Intelligence and data exploitation approach across the enterprise.

Your skills and experiences:

• Essential: Good communication skills – specifically able to translate complex technical ideas into communication which both technical and non-technical colleagues can understand.
• Logically minded in order to encourage standardised processes and governance.
• Confidence to hold their own in order to govern against policies.
• Good experience working within a data background.
• Experience of working within a strategy role.
• Proven experience of architecting & governing enterprise-wide solutions.

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 Business Intelligence Architect team: The role of the Business Intelligence Architect is to develop & govern the Shared Services D&A Business Architecture Practice, specifically relating to business design, business requirements management and process design including validation & verification.

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: 9th 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.