Solution Architect

Job Title: Solution Architect

Location: Warminster Wiltshire or Telford Shropshire Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: 45000 Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF72441

Design and shape solutions that protect what matters most

At Babcock were working to create a safe and secure world together. If you join us you can play your part as a Solution Architect within our Land Sector based at Warminster or Donnington with hybrid working.

In a world of increasing geopolitical complexity national security has never been more important. This role sits at the heart of our business growth and bidding activity shaping solutions across a 70m opportunity pipeline and helping ensure we deliver safe secure and operationally effective outcomes for our defence customers.

The role

As a Solution Architect youll lead the development of operationally deliverable and commercially viable solutions in response to customer change requests and new business opportunities. Working closely with internal stakeholders across operations commercial finance and engineering youll translate complex requirements into clear costed and deliverable solution designs.

Day-to-day you will be:

• Leading the development of endtoend solutions that meet customer commercial and contractual requirements
• Translating customer needs into structured work packages covering people training infrastructure equipment technology and logistics
• Assessing operational feasibility capacity capability and risk associated with proposed solutions
• Producing clear solution artefacts such as process flows impact assessments cost breakdowns and risk registers
• Developing robust evidencebased cost models in collaboration with Finance and Commercial teams.

This is a fulltime hybrid role (37 hours per week) typically with around three days per week onsite at either Warminster or Donnington to support collaboration and stakeholder engagement.

Essential experience of the Solution Architect:

• Experience shaping or delivering solutions within a complex operational or regulated environment
• Strong understanding of commercial governance and businesswinning principles
• Ability to consider wholesystem impacts across people process technology and infrastructure
• Confidence engaging and influencing a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications for the Solution Architect:

• Educated to Level 4 (NQF) or equivalent experience (e.g. HNC Higher Apprenticeship Level 4 NVQ)
• Relevant technical or vocational qualification to Level 3 (NQF) or equivalent experience
• Full UK driving licence.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain 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 - ().

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 shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• Be Kind Day enables employees to take one working days paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.

Babcock

Were Babcock a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26000 people working together to make a difference.

Here youll 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 were 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 with the subject header Reasonable adjustments requirement. Were committed to building an inclusive culture where everyones free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 22/05/2026