Job Title:                     Enterprise Architect

Location:                     UK, Hybrid

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF70972

Create the future of secure engineering

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Enterprise Architect at Wigmore Street, near Central London, Greater London.

The role

As an Enterprise Architect, you will shape the technology direction of a global organisation delivering critical services in defence, aerospace and engineering. This is an exciting opportunity to influence enterprise‑wide decision‑making, modernise IT capabilities, and ensure technology solutions directly support Babcock’s strategic ambitions.

Day-to-day, your work will help protect national security, enable major transformation programmes, and strengthen the digital backbone of the organisation all while offering you exceptional professional growth and exposure to senior leadership.

• Represent enterprise architecture at executive forums, providing insight that shapes major strategic decisions.
• Define and communicate the enterprise architecture vision, ensuring alignment with long‑term business goals and digital transformation priorities.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, advocating for sustainable, scalable and secure technology solutions.
• Establish architectural principles, standards and policies that support consistency and quality across all technology domains.
• Create and present enterprise architecture and solution outlines, ensuring full traceability back to business strategies.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 1-2 days in the office and the rest of week working from home.  There will be occasional travel to Portsmouth and Bristol.

Essential experience of the Enterprise Architect

• Demonstrable experience designing technical solutions for large‑scale, complex environments.
• Strong background working with technologies such as Microsoft, VMware, Citrix and Oracle.
• Proven experience in system architecture and technology governance.
• Ability to develop strategic plans, convert them into actionable roadmaps and translate complex business needs into scalable solutions.
• Understanding of modern technologies including microservices, APIs, data platforms and cybersecurity principles.

Qualifications for the Enterprise Architect

• Technical qualifications such as MCSE, CCNA or TOGAF.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and 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 (www.gov.uk).

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 share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of professional fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10‑days’ special paid leave
• Holiday Trading: buy or sell up to one working week of leave
• ‘Be Kind Day’ – one paid volunteering day each year
• Flexible working options to support your work‑life balance
• A dynamic working environment focused on innovation and collaboration
• Single Private Medical Insurance (PMI) included

Babcock

We’re Babcock a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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 [email protected] 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: 12/02/2026