Solution Architect Full Time

The Central Government Business Unit is seeking to recruit a Solution Architect into a key client account team. This role will provide technical expertise and assurance on customer engagements, shape and architect solutions and lead the communication of our solutions within bids and client presentations.

We are seeking individuals who are good communicators with knowledge in more than one discipline, who can extract best practice from across our company and can work with clients and our engineering specialists to develop a design and work with Software Engineers and Service professionals to deliver enduring capability. You will typically work with senior client stakeholders (up to CXO level) to understand, influence and shape requirements and solution approaches. You will deploy an excellent understanding of mainstream and emerging solution technologies and providers with a flair for evangelism of innovative approaches to business problems and the intellectual capability to rapidly develop expertise and authority in new areas.

To demonstrate the benefit to our clients of engaging us, your solutions will consider the through-life solution operation such as operational support and management, integration, change and extension, migration and re-platforming, productisation, re-use, withdrawal/retirement and disposal.

Key responsibilities are Solution design, Engineering assurance and leadership:

• Leads the development of solution architectures, ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed with both external and internal customers.
• Responsible for defining and managing the solution engineering approach.
• Able to oversee and assure the implementation of the design in collaboration with other design team members such as Application Architects, Infrastructure Architects, System and Software Designers, Data Architects, Security Architects and Functional Architects.
• Able to be the first person to respond to client conversations to shape and lead thinking and approach
• Ensure that the design meets key functional and non-functional requirements and will allow the operational and through-life scenarios required for the solution to be satisfied.
• Great technical writing skills for bids and proposals
• Identify and manage technical and solution risks. Works to reduce and mitigate at earliest practical opportunity.
• Leads estimation efforts to rapidly develop an understanding of potential solution costs and delivery timescales including appropriate Service regimes for solutions in production operation
• Retains overall ownership of solution through delivery and transition into operation and/or subsequent refinement, or modification.
• Ensures that appropriate standards (corporate, industry, national and international) are adhered to.
• Works with quality and test management functions to ensure that proposed test strategies and approaches are fit-for-purpose.
• Works with Delivery Assurance functions to agree how the quality and progress of a given solution delivery should be tracked, and acts an expert resource to support interventions on projects where solution quality or progress has become an issue.

Life at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day. By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance wellbeing.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Applied Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

About BAE Systems Applied Intelligence

We use our intelligence-led insights to help defend Governments, Nations and Societies from cyber-attacks and financial crime. Our customers depend on our evolving capabilities to help them safely grow their organisations. Our unprecedented access to threat intelligence, world-leading analysts and market-leading technology means we can help them to adapt, evolve and stay ahead of the criminals.

Division overview: Government

At BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Government contracts are an area we have many decades of experience in. Our Government business unit houses four of our critical client groups: UK National Security, Global National Security, defence and central government. Government and key infrastructure networks are critical targets to defend as the effects of these networks being breached can be devastating.

As a member of the Government business unit, you will defend the connected world and ensure the protection of nations. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.

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