Information Systems Solution Architect (Engineering Programmes)

Information Systems needs a skilled solution architect to work directly with the programmes teams to bring the right systems and solutions to the ecosystem for those products whilst integrating with the group-wide enterprise level application toolset. As the lead representative of the IS team within programmes, you will bring your knowledge and experience to successfully facilitate collaborative working within a diverse engineering team.

A broad level of technical information technology and information systems knowledge and expertise in the areas of; developing concepts and scoping enterprise systems and services, especially in the integration of disparate and distributed solutions in a defence environment.

Awareness of industry infrastructure and operating standards such as SQL, DB2, Active Directory, Virtual Machines, Websphere, Windows & UNIX.

Strong experience of Systems Engineering processes/lifecycle and of the lifecycle of information systems including acquisition and development of new technology is essential.

Experience of the existing company toolset (or close equivalents)

IBM's ALM, PTC's PLM and any of connected tools including Rhapsody, Zuken and Creo and others.

Experience of the emerging toolset for the new Engineering Programmes including but is not limited to JIRA, CAMEO, MooD.

The role is not limited to the existing tools sets or engineering areas, so a knowledge of Aerodynamics tools, high performance computing and other modelling approaches and engineering capabilities is also extremely useful.