Babcock Naval Marine delivers the through life engineering support of the Royal Navy’s complex maritime assets ranging from managed inventories of types of equipment up to whole ships and nuclear submarines.

This role sits within Babcock Digital Solutions working within the Submarine Support Engineering division of Babcock Naval Marine. Within the Digital Solutions team, they deliver collaborative solutions for use by the entire UK defence maritime enterprise including the customer and other industry participants. 

The Digital Business Architects are responsible for developing and implementing Digital Solution’s Enterprise Architecture capability offering Strategy, Business, Applications & Data. Whilst the Digital Business Architects organisationally sit within the data exploitation team, they report day-to-day to the appropriate leads in the programmes to which they are assigned. They have a reporting line to the Enterprise Architecture Lead and the Head of Service Delivery who in turn has responsibility for Enterprise Architecture (Infrastructure & Technology).    

• Support Babcock and their customers in the delivery of business transformation programmes
• Participate in the delivery of enterprise architecture projects and the application of architectural practices in other Babcock delivery projects
• Contribution to the selection/definition of context-appropriate architectural meta-models including industry standard (e.g. ArchiMate), extended/adapted and bespoke.
• Develop architectures for the Babcock business(es) and other customers
• Development of as-is and to-be architectures to support assessment of solution options and transformation programme / portfolio management.
• Liaison with internal and customer leadership in a consultative capacity to assist in development and communication of transformation strategy
• The provision of advice and recommendations, based on expertise and experience, to address client needs in both enterprise architecture practice and wider project delivery
• Analysis of current (as-is) business (process & organisation), information and applications to create associated architectural models and viewpoints – Involving bottom-up analysis of physical artefacts (e.g. database schema) and review of documentation (e.g. Quality Management systems, specifications, etc.) supported by interviews and workshops with subject matter experts.
• Develop and maintain architecture management plans for each project/programme
• Assist business development in production of bid material for delivery of enterprise architecture services and applying MDA principles to other bid responses
• Application of systems thinking and architectural principles to support project teams with development of user and system requirements and solution specifications including high level designs, functional specifications, etc.
• Contribute to development of the Babcock SSE Digital Solutions enterprise architecture capability offering. 
• Lead on the integration of enterprise architecture and model driven analysis with other aspects of the Digital Solutions enterprise (i.e. Project and Programme management, Business Analysis, Software Development).    
• Support SSE by interfacing with the delegated representatives from the MoD and industry partners, ensuring that IKM solutions satisfy their business needs.
• Liaise with other internal functional departments and share information on capability offerings and changes 
• Act on behalf of SSE in the context of the work stream they are responsible for and within the bounds of the work authorised in order to conduct the role
• Take decisions to ensure that commitments are delivered appropriately