Business Architect

Overview

In this role you will shape how organisations translate strategy into coherent operating models and digital delivery. You’ll work across discovery, design and delivery in public-sector and regulated environments, connecting strategy to outcomes and ensuring practical, delivery-ready architectures. You’ll be embedded in multi-disciplinary teams, facilitating senior decision-making and supporting the community of practice for Business Change. This is a home-based role with client-site work, offering the chance to influence transformation at scale and across portfolios.

Pay / Benefits

• Autonomy to develop and grow your skills
• Flexible Working – home working and part time
• 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• Pension – Salary Exchange Scheme with employer contribution
• Private Medical Insurance (spouse and dependants included)
• Discretionary Company Bonus

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to business architecture and operating-model work across discovery, design and delivery phases
• Develop and maintain capability models, value streams, service maps, operating models and transformation roadmaps
• Translate complex organisational challenges into clear, structured artefacts for decision making
• Collaborate with product, delivery, technology and policy teams to align change with strategy
• Facilitate senior-level workshops to prioritise portfolios and investments
• Ensure architecture is practical, usable and delivery-aligned
• Support integration of business architecture with agile, programme and portfolio delivery
• Assure quality, coherence and traceability of artefacts across engagements
• Contribute to Methods Business Change Community of Practice and mentor others

Key requirements

• Extensive Business Architecture experience or equivalent knowledge from recognised bodies (BCS, BIZBOK, TOGAF)
• Experience leading business architecture in multi-disciplinary teams
• Ability to select appropriate modelling techniques to illuminate problems and solutions
• Ability to influence and lead improvements to business capabilities aligning delivery with strategy
• Define and communicate business models and information flows for digital transformation
• Breadth of techniques to define and manage conceptual models (capabilities, value streams, operating and service models) across change
• Develop and communicate usable business architectures, identify issues and manage escalations
• Experience delivering in fast-paced environments using agile and waterfall methodologies
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to resolve conflicts
• Excellent written and verbal communication; proactive in personal and professional development and mentoring

• Highly adaptable and resilient
• Natural facilitator and influencer
• Excellent communication skills
• Systems Thinking
• Complexity Theory
• Human Centred Design

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