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Business Architect

Skills
Analytical SkillsArchitectureBusinessBusiness ArchitectureEmerging TechnologiesFinanceJira
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • Extensive business architecture experience or relevant knowledge from recognised bodies such as BCS BIZBOK or TOGAF
  • Experience leading business architecture within a multi-disciplinary team and selecting effective business modelling techniques
  • Ability to recommend influence and lead improvements to business capabilities aligned to strategic activity
  • Ability to define and communicate business models and information flows that support digital transformation
  • Breadth of experience managing conceptual models including capabilities value streams operating models and service models across different change methodologies
  • Experience managing development and communication of usable business architectures and escalating issues appropriately
  • Experience leading work in fast paced environments across agile and waterfall project methodologies
  • Excellent stakeholder management with ability to understand objectives and resolve tension and conflict
  • Strong problem solving analytical critical and conceptual thinking skills
  • Skilled written and verbal communicator
  • Pro-active approach to professional development and mentoring others in business architecture best practice

Nice to have

  • Systems thinking
  • Complexity awareness
  • Human centred design
  • Public services knowledge
  • Technology marketplace awareness
  • Strategy to delivery
  • Domain specialism
  • Security and privacy knowledge
  • GDS Service Standards
  • Agile and SAFe awareness
  • Remote collaboration
  • Financial analysis

Day to day

  • Lead business architecture and operating model work across discovery design and delivery phases for complex client engagements
  • Develop and maintain capability models value streams service maps operating models and transformation roadmaps that bring clarity to ambiguity
  • Facilitate senior workshops and collaborate with product delivery technology and policy teams to align change initiatives to strategic intent
  • Translate complex organisational and delivery challenges into clear decision-ready artefacts and ensure architecture is practical usable and delivery-aligned