Senior IS​/IT Architect

JOB PURPOSE

BAE Systems is the UK Government’s nominated Prime Contractor under the Government-to-Government arrangements that are in place to provide equipment, support and training to Saudi Arabia. We provide maintenance of Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) aircraft and train RSAF and Royal Saudi Naval Force personnel safely in a training environment in how to use their aircraft, equipment and weapons.

BAE Systems Saudi Arabia is committed to supporting the Saudi Arabian National Agenda including Saudisation and the training and development of Saudi National capability through the growth of the Saudi National Partner Companies thereby reinforcing Industrialisation and Partnerships.

IM&T (Digital, Data & Cyber) is a key enabler of BAE Systems Saudi Arabia’s strategy and business plan to maintain, defend, and grow its central role in the national and regional defence ecosystem of Vision 2030.

This ‘Senior IT/IT Architect’ role, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is responsible for building key relationships with our customers and stakeholders, driving our strategic technical direction, supporting business winning campaigns and enabling the delivery of our contractual programme commitments to military customers across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).

In addition to programme delivery accountabilities on the Saudi British Defence Cooperation Programme (SBDCP) and Salam (Typhoon) Programme, this role plays a crucial part in growing the business, fostering innovation, creating digital business value, enabling Saudisation, enhancing operational efficiency, optimising business processes and ensuring competitive advantage for BAE Systems in Saudi Arabia.

The purpose of this role is to:

• Lead the creation and review of an enterprise capability strategy to support the requirements of the business and our military customers.
• Identify and define the business benefits of alternative strategies.
• Lead the technical specification and integration of solutions across our stakeholder communities (including a range of lines of business, programmes, customers and suppliers).
• Provide strategic direction and technical advice for Customer programmes.
• Be accountable for all requirements capture and solution integration for current, future projects and bid activities.
• Provide governance and assurance for all customer facing IT solutions and contractual deliverables (internal and external compliance including all legal, regulatory, cyber security aspects).

Ultimately, the role holder will be responsible for supporting strategic developments, solution design, solution integration, service deployment and through-life support for all Information Systems / Information Technology (IS/IT) solutions that form part of the capability delivery on Customer facing (Military) programmes.

The role holder:

• Is a suitably qualified and experienced IS/IT Architect, who will proactively liaise between business units, technology teams, IT vendors, support teams and our Customers (both RSAF, RSNF and internal).
• Provides analytical support in development of the IT requirements and Statements of Requirement (SoR).
• Applies knowledge, skills and training to deliver the information technology solutions required to allow the business/customer to meet its strategic and operational goals.
• Maintains an in-depth knowledge of specific application and technical specialisms and provides expert advice regarding their application. Can supervise specialist application/technical consultancy.
• Directs development of enterprise-wide architecture and processes which ensure that the application of change is embedded in the management of the organisation.
• Ensures compliance between business, enterprise transformation activities and technology directions, setting approaches and contributing to policies, standards and practices.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with organisational policies and procedures and overall information management strategy.
• Has defined authority and accountability for actions and decisions within a significant area of work, including technical, financial and quality aspects. Establishes organisational objectives and…