Business Architect

Overview

In this role you will support the Business Architecture Lead to shape and deliver architecture projects within HPC, creating efficient operating models. You will diagnose needs, scope work, and drive a pipeline of business architecture initiatives, collaborating with stakeholders across functions. You’ll translate plans into measurable objectives, evaluate options with external partners, and ensure delivery of defined business outcomes. This is a chance to influence complex change in a safety-critical, nuclear-related context within a flexible, inclusive culture.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salary
• company pension scheme
• flexible benefits
• hybrid/remote working
• inclusive culture
• supportive environment

Responsibilities

• Diagnose, scope and deliver the pipeline of business architecture work in assigned areas
• Facilitate workshops and interviews, negotiate and influence stakeholders
• Select appropriate methods and techniques for each assignment
• Identify interfaces across departments and align procedures and systems
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design integrated solutions
• Develop project concepts, objectives, scope, risks and dependencies with senior stakeholders
• Capture and prioritise business requirements and success measures with key stakeholders
• Collaborate with 3rd party delivery partners to evaluate best solution options
• Develop robust mandates and investment cases for business architecture projects
• Act as custodian of requirements through the project lifecycle and ensure alignment with the solution
• Use trends to enable continuous improvement and best-practice solutions
• Support business acceptance and testing of developed solutions
• Ensure adherence to core delivery assurance principles

Key requirements

• Relevant qualifications and experience in business architecture disciplines
• Experience delivering business architecture solutions that improve efficiency
• Experience with formal project management techniques (e.g., Prince2) and related tools
• Experience with RFI/ITT activities and evaluation scoring
• Excellent communication and influencing skills at senior level
• Experience developing business cases with financial modelling and appraisal skills
• Prior experience in nuclear, asset-intensive and/or safety-critical environments

• Strong workshop facilitation
• Negotiation and influencing
• Mediation and conflict management
• Business process analysis and design techniques with modelling tools
• Ability to identify interfaces and integrate cross-functional processes
• Structured option appraisal and evaluation of solutions

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