Data Architect

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Babcock

We're Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you'll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we're building a future that lasts - not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 12/11/2026

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Job Title: Data Architect

Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol, Plymouth, Devon or Leicester - Hybrid Working

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76607

As a Data Architect, you'll provide strategic leadership for data platforms, information assets and enterprise data architecture. You'll ensure data is trusted, accessible, secure and aligned to business goals while helping to unlock the full value of organisational data. Working across business and technology teams, you'll play a key role in shaping data strategy, governance, analytics and future digital capabilities.

Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Defining enterprise data strategies, standards, policies and governance frameworks across the organisation.
• Developing and maintaining conceptual, logical and physical data models that support business and operational objectives.
• Providing technical leadership and expert guidance on data architecture, information management, analytics and emerging technologies.
• Ensuring data solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, security requirements and regulatory obligations.
• Leading the identification and resolution of data-related challenges while driving continuous improvement and innovation.

This is a full-time, permanent role based at Babcock Technology Centre, Devonport or Leicester, working 37.5 hours per week. Hybrid working patterns are available, with an expectation of two days per week onsite.