Enterprise Architect Practitioner
// Role Summary
Join BAE Systems as an Enterprise Architect Practitioner, shaping the future of defence technology by designing and governing enterprise architecture models. This role offers a blend of hands-on modelling and strategic influence within a collaborative team.
// Key Responsibilities
- Design, maintain, and govern enterprise architecture models across multiple domains.
- Lead the evolution and governance of the enterprise architecture metamodel.
- Assure the quality and consistency of architecture artefacts.
- Support strategic planning and transformation initiatives with clear architectural views.
- Enable effective repository use through guidance and best practices.
- Contribute expert guidance to architecture governance forums.
// Role Specification
About the Role
This role supports the architecture team and business users across the Air Sector, focusing on the design, governance, and development of the Enterprise Architecture repository and models. The Enterprise Architect Practitioner ensures high-quality, consistent architecture artefacts that support decision-making, strategic alignment, and effective IM&T delivery.
The role combines hands-on modelling with governance of standards, metamodel design, and repository structure, supporting a broad community of practitioners and stakeholders.
Core Duties:
- Develop, maintain, and govern enterprise architecture models across business, information, application, and technology domains using agreed standards and frameworks.
- Lead the design, evolution, and governance of the enterprise architecture metamodel, viewpoints, and modelling conventions within the architecture repository.
- Act as a senior practitioner, reviewing and assuring the quality, consistency, and usability of architecture artefacts.
- Support strategic planning, investment decisions, and transformation initiatives through clear, accurate, and traceable architectural views.
- Enable effective use of the architecture repository by defining modelling patterns, guidance, and best practices for the wider architecture community.
- Contribute to architecture governance forums, providing expert guidance and influencing key stakeholders across the organisation.
Essential Skills:
- Experience in enterprise architecture modelling across multiple domains (business, application, data, technology), using tools such as Bizzdesign or similar.
- Working knowledge of architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) and modelling languages such as ArchiMate.
- Experience with scripting to query and analyse architecture models.
- Ability to assure and enhance the quality of architecture artefacts and repositories within large or complex organisations.
- Experience supporting architecture communities of practice or federated modelling communities.
About the Team:
You will join a collaborative architecture community responsible for shaping and governing the enterprise architecture landscape. The team works closely with delivery, business, and technology stakeholders to ensure architecture insights enable strategic decision-making, effective investment, and successful change. This role plays a key part in strengthening architecture capability, consistency, and reuse across the organisation, while supporting architects and stakeholders in making effective use of enterprise architecture assets.
Security Considerations:
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.