Lead Business Architect

We are looking for a Lead Business Architect to join the Group Enterprise Architecture function of MBDA. This is a great opportunity to work at the intersection of business strategy, transformation, innovation, solution development and governance to shape the future of the company. The role is a leader within the Enterprise Architecture team and a key partner to Business & Digital Excellence functions.

Salary: Circa £80,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2 days per week on-site due to workload classification

Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship.

Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

What we can offer you:

• Company Bonus: Bonus of up to 35% of base salary
• Monthly car allowance: £575 per calendar month
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
• Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
• Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more…
• Private Medical Insurance: Eligible employees are enrolled as standard into the company funded Private Medical Insurance benefit

The opportunity:

The Enterprise Architecture team combines business and technical expertise with practical experience, positioning us as trusted advisors across the company. By maintaining close alignment with the business objectives, our architected approach ensures critical improvements, transformations and technology efforts are coordinated, effective and value driven: underpinning a strong, secure, scalable, and efficient foundation for the company.

The role works across the multi-national, European group of MBDA. It has a broad scope including –

• Partnering with leaders amongst Business & Digital Excellence functions
• Partnering with leaders amongst the MBDA UK business for national specific architectural activities
• Providing the data-driven foundation for prioritising decisions on areas that maximise business value
• Ensuring key transformations, improvements and technology decisions directly support and enable the overarching goals and drivers of the business
• Eliciting clear business needs and requirements from which data, application and technology architectural choices can follow and ultimately provide clear input to solution development activities
• Supporting the development of solutions, their implementation and governance
• Manging a small team of architects

What we’re looking for from you:

Technical skills include

• Business architecture modelling
• Requirement’s elicitation, prioritisation & trade-off
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks
• Relevant professional qualification

Soft skills include

• Leadership
• Line management
• Strategic & analytical thinking
• Stakeholder management
• Communication skills

Recognising diverse routes into Business Architecture, desirable experiences include

• A business analysis or architecture background
• An enterprise or IT architecture background
• Project Management
• Experience working in an international setting

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We recognise that everyone is unique, and we encourage you to speak to us should you require any advice, support or adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

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