Senior Business Architect - SC Cleared - 6 Month Contract

Project overview

Business Architect - £700 per day - 6 Month Contract

Requirements

If you are available and interested, please apply in the first instance and you will be contacted to discuss the position further.

• Strong experience in business architecture at senior practitioner level, including current-state and target-state architecture, capability mapping, value streams and strategic roadmaps.
• Strong experience developing and supporting Target Operating Models (TOMs) and future-state operating models.
• Proven ability to assess how strategic change impacts the business and operating model, including technology, and to align strategic objectives with the way the organisation works.
• Strong analytical skills, with experience identifying capability, process and organisational gaps and setting out the changes needed to address them.
• Ability to translate complex business information into clear, structured recommendations.
• Strong systems thinking, with experience of whole-system impacts, dependencies, risks and transition planning.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with confidence engaging senior stakeholders across strategic and operational levels.
• Comfortable working collaboratively in blended teams of contractors and civil servants, including taking direction from design leadership where required.
• Experience supporting business transformation and digital change programmes.
• Willingness to bring constructive challenge and fresh perspectives, share best practice, and build the capability of the wider team through knowledge transfer.
• Ability to develop and embed business architecture principles, standards and best practice.
• Strong facilitation skills and a data-driven approach. Business analysis or service design experience is a plus, as the role may cross disciplines in smaller teams.
• Central Government, Public Sector or regulated environment experience is desirable.

Project details

Up to £750 per day

6 months (extendable)

IR35: Inside

Hybrid - London

Clearance: SC Cleared

The Role:

A leading Central Government department is seeking an experienced Business Architect to join a multidisciplinary design team, responsible for the business architecture of a large, complex public service.

You will assess how proposed changes affect the wider business and technology landscape, shape current and target-state architecture, and develop practical roadmaps that support successful transformation. You will work alongside civil servants and a design lead, taking a whole-system view and producing high-quality designs that are right first time and move through governance with minimal rework.

• Start: 4-6 weeks
• Duration: 6 months +
• Location: London, UK, GB
• Rate: 88-94 EUR/h