Business Architect

HM REVENUE & CUSTOMS; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A governmental organization is seeking a Grade 7 Business Architect in Cardiff to lead business architecture initiatives, influence decision making, and drive strategic alignment across programs. The ideal candidate will possess excellent communication skills and experience in modeling business architecture artefacts. This role offers a dynamic environment where you will be pivotal in the transformation of services and policies.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Range of employee benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in a transformation program within HMRC or similar governmental context.
• Proven track record of influencing decision-making and driving strategic alignment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of early propositions aligned with departmental strategy.
• Ensure effective design throughout the change process.
• Conduct deep dive analysis providing clarity for decision making.
• Maintain governance arrangements and standards for business information.
• Champion the Business Architecture Profession through coaching and mentoring.
• Provide architectural viewpoints to ensure alignment with strategic roadmaps.

Skills

Modelling business architecture artefacts

Excellent communication skills

Leading design discoveries

Creative and flexible approach

Application of architectural principles

Assimilating and correlating disconnected approaches

Visualising and building high-level models

Education

Professional Certificate in Business Architecture

Business Analysis Related Qualification

Job description

Overview

Business Architecture within ETG is part of a combined strategy, architecture & design service, partnering across HMRC and wider government to facilitate change and transformation. We are delivery and outcome focused, seeking to understand each area of the organisation, build knowledge to pull together architecture views, and tell a coherent story of how HMRC is transforming - in a simple language for everyone to understand. As a Grade 7 Business Architect, you will be expected to lead by shaping architectural thinking, influencing decision-making, guiding teams, and driving strategic alignment across programmes. You will help ensure the sum of the parts moves the organisation forward while reducing cost and time to implement, develop our Business Architecture Profession, share knowledge, mentor others, and contribute to our career development framework.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of early propositions and align them with departmental strategy as they move into programme delivery.
• Ensure effective design is a permanent feature of each change, ensuring standards are met and there is clear line of sight from strategy to delivery.
• Conduct deep dive analysis on sophisticated, high‑profile topics, bringing clarity to support decision making; outline options and the reasons for them to our partners.
• Maintain governance arrangements and standards for business information, escalating impacts, risks and issues appropriately.
• Champion the Business Architecture Profession through coaching, mentoring, and continuous improvement.
• Provide architectural viewpoints to programmes and projects; ensuring alignment with strategic roadmaps.
• Occasional travel may be required.

Qualifications & Skills

• Experience modelling business architecture artefacts using a variety of tools and techniques; developing standard and scalable models as required to collect, aggregate or disaggregate complex information.
• Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to engage and negotiate with key stakeholders at appropriate levels; includes written and verbal communications as well as visualisations.
• Ability to lead design discoveries and influence multi-functional teams.
• Creative and flexible approach to working in challenging and sometimes ambiguous environments, shifting direction if necessary while maintaining progress.
• Understanding of and ability to apply architectural principles, methods, and tools to business challenges.
• Ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected approaches, documentation and diagrams and articulate their collective relevance to the department through the lens of business capabilities.
• Experience visualising and building high-level models for future analysis to extend and mature the department's critical thinking.

Desirable Criteria

• Professional Certificate in Business Architecture
• Certified Business Architect (CBA)
• Open-BA Certified
• Business Architect Professional (BAIP)
• The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) Certified
• Delivery Qualifications (e.g., Agile Project Management, Prince2)
• Business Analysis Related Qualification

About the Organization

About Enterprise Transformation Group (ETG): ETG is responsible for developing a single transformation plan for HMRC and working with partners to deliver it. The plan coordinates policy, processes, people and platform, designs common solutions that work across the tax system, and drives HMRC towards its vision of a digital, efficient organisation.

Eligibility & Other Information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles. In case of any complaint, please contact the Recruitment Complaints email provided in the advert. The Civil Service embraces diversity and inclusion, offering flexible working where possible and a range of employee benefits. This role may be suitable for existing HMRC employees who are contractual homeworkers, with occasional attendance to the office as required. Details on location, security checks, nationality requirements, and other employment terms are provided in the advert.