IT Practitioner – Solution Architecture in Barrow in Furness

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Competitive

What you’ll be doing

• You will be working closely with Business Analysts to support requirements gathering.
• Contributing to the development and production of solution options and selecting down to present to business stakeholders.
• Supporting with demand management meetings to help route requirements appropriately to delivery teams or convert to projects.
• Aligning any incoming demand to the functional and overall strategic roadmap.
• Producing Architecture governance documentation whilst adhering to and following BAE principles and guidelines.
• Supporting with the production of high level designs to gain quotations from the IT service provider to support with the mobilisation of IT projects.
• Identifying and recording Architecture debt and decisions.

Your skills and experiences

Essential

• Experience gained in translating business requirements into solutions and select down process.
• Prior initial knowledge and experience gained within modelling and solution architecture.
• Knowledge and experience of The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF).
• Competency gained in identifying risks and opportunities.

Desirable

• Knowledge and experience of Business Analysis Process.
• Knowledge of the IT function – teams within the function and their high level responsibilities.

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 IT Product Fulfilment team

By joining us in the team, you will have a fantastic opportunity to engage with multiple stakeholders across the business, determining their requirements, liaising with internal IT stakeholders and advising on IT solutions to meet them, while ensuring alignment with the functional and organisational strategy/roadmap. You will play a key part in some of our most complex and exciting programmes to date. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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: 6th February 2026. 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.