Business Architect

Government Recruitment Service; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A government agency in the UK seeks a Business Architect to enhance service delivery through business architecture principles. You will collaborate across teams, support transformation initiatives, and improve operational performance. Candidates with exceptional skills may receive a recruitment and retention allowance. This full-time role allows for part-time arrangements with a minimum of 30 hours per week.

Benefits

Recruitment and retention allowance

Flexible working hours

Travel reimbursement

Qualifications

• Experience in applying business architecture frameworks.
• Ability to collaborate across business boundaries.
• Strong skills in strategy interpretation and value streams.

Responsibilities

• Apply business architecture in strategy interpretation.
• Support change and transformation initiatives.
• Manage operations performance through business value identification.

Skills

Business architecture principles

Capability mapping

Collaboration skills

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent experience

Tools

BIZBOK framework

Job description

The Home Office works to build a safe, fair, and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, crime, drugs policy, immigration, and passports.

The Migration and Borders Group (MBG) is responsible for the Migration and Borders System, issuing British passports, running the Civil Registration system, as well as managing Asylum, Protection, Resettlement and Integration services. Its mission is to deliver an efficient, effective and innovative Migration and Borders System that supports the needs of UK citizens and labour market and protects the security of the UK.

System Design sits at the heart of MBG and supports Ministers, the Executive Committee, Policy and Operational Leads. It owns and develops the MBG end-to-end Strategic Design and Business Architecture and facilitates a cross-cutting system approach to services, capabilities and interventions. If you join us, you will find a passionate and encouraging team, committed to the work and to supporting each other.

In this role you’ll work at the intersection of business strategy and delivery, partnering with multidisciplinary teams to deliver outputs that enable the departmental outcomes.

You’ll draw on business architecture principles – like capability mapping, value streams and business model canvas to create common business views and language. Your input will provide greater visibility of opportunities for the business to improve and identify areas where the business operation is suboptimal.

As a Business Architect, you will use your skills and knowledge to support the change lifecycle of MBG product and service delivery and ensure alignment with Home Office strategies and transformation efforts, ensuring our critical services to keep citizens safe and the country secure.

Business Architecture is part of the DDaT profession and uses the Business Architecture Guild framework (BIZBOK) to provide a holistic view and traceability across the organisation.

Whether applying the frameworks, practices and principles to organisational design or supporting improvements to services and products though advising and guiding on change activity, your role is both varied and impactful.

If you thrive on tackling a diverse range of business challenges and enjoy shaping the bigger picture, this may be the perfect opportunity to leave your mark.

Key Responsibilities

1. Applying business architecture to various scenarios:

• Strategy interpretation – helping to map and identify the potential change impact on business and investment
• Business Design – supporting the development of design artefacts that use business architecture collateral to translate business strategy to solution design at initiative level
• Change/Transformation initiatives – using business designs to support effective delivery
• Operations performance management –helping to identifying pain points in achieving business value
• Collaborating closely Transformation project and business change colleagues to ensure solutions are supported, as required.
• Collaboration and integration with other professions and disciplines across business boundaries to ensure solutions are holistic and benefit the whole organisation.

2. Building the business architecture knowledgebase by ensuring that business architecture related artefacts for your work are added or updated on the knowledge base in timely manner and complies with architecture and knowledgebase guidance and standards and tools.

3. Supporting the business architecture practice infrastructure

• Standards implementation and maintenance – ensuring that you apply the Home Office business architecture standards consistently across the HO
• Learning & Development – identifying relevant learning and development activities to develop your professional skills and abilities
• Community support – developing and maintaining effective ongoing relationships with other Business Architects and design professionals.

Travel

The successful candidate may be required to travel to other work locations occasionally based on business need. All related costs will be reimbursed in line with Home Office policy.

Working Pattern

This role is available on a full-time basis with the option of compressed hours working. This role is also suitable for part-time working hours, with a minimum requirement to work 30 hours per week due to business requirements. Applications from job share candidates are welcome, but any job offer is conditional upon a viable job-sharing arrangement being available.

Recruitment and Retention Allowance (RRA)

Candidates with exceptional skills and experience may receive a recruitment and retention allowance (RRA). This allowance is subject to initial review within six months of taking up the post and thereafter an annual review in-line with departmental priorities and could be reduced or withdrawn at any time.

MBG locations

MBG is currently prioritising recruitment to our Places for Growth locations. However, MBG operates a ‘right to remain’ policy for existing MBG staff currently working at a location outside those listed above. While ‘right to remain’ requests are contingent upon reasonable business need and existing terms and conditions, we will aim to ensure there is no need to move office while supporting your career and development within MBG.