Job Description

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. From the seabed to outer space, you can contribute to work that matters with a company where diversity, equity and inclusion are shared values. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

We are looking for a Solution Architect to join the BDUK Architecture team. The successful candidate will work with customer to help define and govern business and IT transformation programmes.

Following defined Boeing processes and collaborating closely with the customer and Boeing authorities and suppliers, the candidate will be encouraged to give to the development and governing of architectural components in support of transformation programmes.

Responsibilities

• Working collaboratively within a coordinated customer and supplier team to deliver jointly transformed Business and IT Services.
• Recommends/ crafts structures and tools for processes, applications and technologies which meet business needs.
• Delivers technical visualisation of proposed applications for approval by customer and execution by system developers.
• Develops and translates logical designs into outline solution designs and solution options top meet customer requirements
• Undertakes or supports trade studies and option evaluations, product selections
• Supports case development and benefit identification and benefit realization (including benchmarking and critical metric development)
• Supplies to development of enterprise architectures:
• Supplies to the development and maintenance of business architectures, in particular, process architectures, business reference model, capability models.
• Gives to the development and maintenance of information architectures, in particular taxonomies, high level information models, API’s and common message formats.
• Gives to the development and maintenance of application architectures, in particular logical architectures and canonical interface definitions.
• Gives to the development and maintenance of technical architectures, in particular reference architectures and non-functional requirements including security considerations.
• Utilises enterprise architecture
• Develops solution architectures to deliver specific projects and capability improvements that form part of an overall business transformation or IT transformation effort, using the provided enterprise architecture.
• Identifies and evaluates potential solutions, including demonstrating, installing and commissioning selected products.
• Collects and develops architectures within a repository based architecture modelling tool.

Competencies

• Contributes to the development of enterprise solutions to a wide range of difficult problems.
• Owns the development of point solutions to deliver specific capability improvements.
• Develops solutions that are imaginative, detailed, practicable, and consistent with organization objectives.
• Contributes to the completion of specific workstreams and projects - failure to obtain results, reaching erroneous decisions or making recommendations would typically result in serious project delays and additional expenditure of resources.
• Resolves and develops approaches to solutions within the constraints provided by a supervising architect (Chief Architect or Enterprise Architect).
• Receives general direction for work that is reviewed upon completion for adequacy in meeting objectives.

Typical Education and/or Experience

• Experience of implementing IT enabled business change
• Use Case and Scenario Modelling
• Experience of digital and mobile computing architectures
• Experience of selecting or implementing COTS software and best of breed packages
• Experience of integration heavy solutions and SOA.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience of the following notation:
• Archimate 2 or 3 notation
• TOGAF 9 or 10
• Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN)
• Experience in the use of repository based Enterprise Architecture modelling tools (e.g., Sparx EA, Mega, iServer, System Architect).

Desirable

• Experience of defence, blue light and/or government organisations
• Knowledge of infrastructure and/or security aspects of an enterprise-scale delivery or operation
• Knowledge of Lean Thinking, Theory of Constraints, six sigma or similar business improvement techniques
• Experience of virtualization of storage, compute and network capabilities
• Experience of information security and cryptography tools, techniques and strategies
• Experience of DevOps and Agile development
• Experience of user experience design and development of personas
• Experience of working within a multinational matrix management environment / structure and a large-scale, complex international organization, but also within small teams

Important information regarding this requisition: This requisition is for a locally hired position in the UK. Benefits and pay are resolved at the local level.

Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial airplanes and defense, space and security systems. We are engineers and technicians. Skilled scientists and problem solvers. Bold innovators and optimists. Join us, and you can build something better for yourself, for our customers and for the world.

This position requires the ability to obtain a UK security Clearance for which the UK Government requires UK residency. The successful candidate will hold, or have the ability to obtain, Security Clearance (SC).

All information will be checked and verified.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.