Senior Product Engineer – Archer

About the Role

This role is instrumental in driving the delivery of new projects and enhancements on the Archer platform, operating within an Agile framework. You will collaborate closely with product, architecture, and security teams, with a key responsibility for developing and maintaining integrations using various scripting approaches. Your remit will include shaping technical designs, implementing platform automation, and ensuring integrations and configurations adhere to best-practice standards.

Core Duties

• Act as the technical authority for the Archer platform, providing guidance on architecture, integrations, and solution design.
• Develop and maintain integrations using JavaScript and other scripting approaches, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability.
• Design and implement automation within the Archer platform to enhance efficiency and reduce manual processes.
• Provide technical governance, encompassing code reviews, standards definition, documentation, and best-practice enforcement.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across IT, security, and business teams to understand requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying optimisation opportunities, enhancing platform stability, and contributing to the GRC technology roadmap.

GRC Product Team

As the Senior Product Engineer, you will serve as the technical authority and Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Archer platform within Shared Services Enterprise IT (EIT) at BAE Systems. This position offers end-to-end leadership across solution design, delivery, and technical governance, ensuring the platform remains robust, scalable, and aligned with business and security objectives.

Essential Skills

• Extensive demonstrable experience working with the Archer platform in a technical or product delivery capacity.
• Proven experience delivering technology solutions within an Agile environment.
• Evidenced experience with JavaScript in production environments, including integrations, workflows, and automation.
• Hands-on experience with integrations, APIs, and enterprise systems.

Security Requirements

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 (BPSS). 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.