Solution Architect

Job Title:                     Solution Architect

Location:                     Warminster, Wiltshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           £45,000 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF72441

 

Design and shape solutions that protect what matters most

 

At Babcock, we’re 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, you’ll 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, you’ll translate complex requirements into clear, costed, and deliverable solution designs.

 

Day-to-day, you will be:

 

• Leading the development of end‑to‑end 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, evidence‑based cost models in collaboration with Finance and Commercial teams.

 

This is a full‑time, 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 business‑winning principles
• Ability to consider whole‑system 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 - 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 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 day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.

 

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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 22/05/2026