Business Architect, Automation

Government Recruitment Service; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A UK Government Agency is seeking a Business Architect to align strategy and transformation efforts across the Home Office. The role requires collaboration, mentoring, and expertise in business architecture principles to drive innovation in public services. Candidates should have experience with AI and automation technologies and a relevant degree or equivalent experience. This role offers flexible working options with a minimum office attendance requirement.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Supportive work environment

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in business architecture principles like capability mapping and operating model design.
• Ability to mentor and guide colleagues in best practices.
• Strong understanding of AI and automation technologies.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across departments to align strategies and operations.
• Mentor others and foster collaboration within the architecture community.
• Support transformative digital initiatives and facilitate knowledge sharing.

Skills

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Data-driven decision making

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent experience

Job description

As a Business Architect, you will collaborate across the entire Home Office to align strategy, transformation efforts, and ongoing operations, ensuring our critical services keep citizens safe and the country secure.

Whether advising on organisational design for complex immigration processes, guiding portfolio and programme delivery in law enforcement, or supporting common standards and tooling, your role is both varied and impactful. You will use established frameworks (such as Bizbok) to facilitate structured problem-solving, intentional design, and data-driven decision making, cultivating a holistic view across departmental silos.

Alongside a supportive architecture community, you will mentor others, share knowledge, and foster collaboration. If you thrive on tackling diverse, high-stakes challenges and enjoy shaping the bigger picture, this may be the perfect opportunity to leave your mark.

Due to business requirements this post is available on a full time/flexible working basis. Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working.Where this is the case, employees will be expected to spend a minimum of60% of their working time in the office.Applicants can raise any queries to the email address at the bottom of the advert.

We value diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from the widest diversity of backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. We encourage applications from women, people with disabilities and LGBT+ as they are currently under-represented in the Home Office at this grade level. Appointments will be made on merit based on fair and open competition.

Transform Government with AI

Help deliver the UK government's AI vision while transforming the Home Office. Our Automation and Innovation portfolio is implementing the Government's Generative AI Framework, turning technological potential into reality.

National Scale Impact

Our work spans Border Security, Immigration, Asylum case management and Counter-Terrorism operations. Develop technology that reunites families, creates safer communities, protects vulnerable people, and improves UK travel experiences.

Public Sector Innovation at Pace

We've delivered millions in efficiency savings by automating routine tasks, allowing colleagues to focus on complex human-centred work. Our solutions create meaningful improvements in public service delivery.

Join Our Team

Work with the Digital Innovation Lab, alongside colleagues in the Automation Centre and Data Science and Evaluation teams to:

• Build solutions improving lives nationwide
• Work with diverse AI and automation technologies
• Collaborate with technical experts
• Develop skills at the forefront of public sector innovation

Help build a future-ready Home Office where innovation delivers daily impact. Ready to use cutting-edge technology to transform millions of lives across the UK?

In this role, you’ll work at the intersection of business strategy and delivery, partnering with multidisciplinary teams to drive tangible outcomes that strengthen our public services and national security. You’ll draw on business architecture principles like capability mapping, value streams, and operating model design to create a common language, enabling leaders and teams to spot gaps, opportunities, and interdependencies with ease.

Whether you’re developing long-term strategies, supporting portfolio decisions for transformative digital initiatives, or facilitating knowledge sharing within the architecture and business design community, your input will shape how the Home Office functions at every level.

On a typical day, you could be translating high-level policy goals into actionable design artefacts for a new service, collaborating with technical architects to keep business and technology in sync, or coaching a junior colleague through best practices in knowledgebase interrogation and management.

You’ll also have a hand in defining and maintaining the department’s architectural tooling, standards, and approaches ensuring decisions are consistently well-informed, user-centred, and forward-looking. Ultimately, your ability to synthesize complexity, build consensus, and promote structured thinking will help deliver services that are more intuitive, integrated, and resilient - benefiting the public and advancing the Home Office’s overarching mission.