Lead Business Architect

Government Recruitment Service; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A government department is seeking a Lead Business Architect to join their Business Strategy team in Birmingham. The role involves strategic analysis and building business architecture to support departmental goals. Strong leadership, influencing skills, and strategic thinking are essential for success. The position offers a hybrid working model, allowing flexibility between office and home. This is a unique opportunity to impact public service delivery positively.

Qualifications

• Proven ability in strategic analysis and business architecture.
• Experience in leadership roles, overseeing teams and projects.
• Strong influencing and communication skills, essential for stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the Business Strategy team's knowledgebase and strategy development.
• Lead the delivery of holistic views of departmental goals and solutions.
• Mentor and coach team members, sharing expert knowledge.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic analysis

Business architecture

Influencing skills

Communication

Job description

About the role

Working towards sustainable futures. Championing diversity in the workplace. At the Department for Work and Pensions, it’s all in a day’s work. FromHR to Finance, Policy to Communications, this is work that sustains and supports, where everyone’s voice is heard, and our customers are at the heart of everything we do. For a career packed with possibility, a comprehensive benefits package, where we live by our values and have the opportunity to improve the lives of people across the UK, look no further.

The Department for Work and Pensions is one of the largest Departments in Whitehall, managing the delivering of benefit payments to citizens totalling over £200bn annually. Working in Finance Group in Government, your role is to protect public funds and add value through finance assurance activities.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the newly formed Strategic Finance and Business Strategy Directorate in the Department for Work and Pensions. This team is at the heart of setting and enabling the department to deliver its long-term strategy, including our transformation ambitions, and the role holder will be integral in making the Department’s strategic vision a reality.

The Business Architecture team is central in helping the Department understand how it can deliver its strategic ambitions, based upon the Departmental strategy and vision. The team are passionate advocates of making positive change to the way the Department works, putting business architecture at the heart of strategic thinking.

As a Lead Business Architect, you will be critical to ensuring that the impact of the Department’s strategic ambitions are understood, impacted across the business and translatable into actionable initiatives to effect change. To achieve this, you will build strong, effective relationships and work in partnership with colleagues across the business to build consensus and achieve outcomes.

You will take personal responsibility for undertaking strategic analysis and modelling of the Department’s business architecture across different areas of the Department, defining current and target states, developing roadmaps to steer senior decision makers in the delivery of change and making recommendations for the scoping of change initiatives.

Responsibilities

• You will be an essential, integral part of the leadership group within the Business Strategy team, contributing fully to the creation and maintenance of our knowledgebase, strategy development and alignment and delivery of change, underpinned by our architecture.
• You will take a leadership role in the delivery and development of our strategy and development of holistic, integrated view of the department, either a business area or whole to achieve Departmental goals and solutions.
• You will develop that holistic view of the department by leading, facilitating, and encouraging the sharing of information and leading on the creation of the team’s knowledgebase and business architecture collateral, including frameworks, business cases, and roadmaps.
• You will be a skilful influencer and clear communicator driven by the importance of applying architectural thinking to business change and of building clear and convincing views of how to deliver strategy both within the Directorate and wider Department.
• You will develop and measure the capabilities that are required by the Department across its services to realise the desired outcomes and be accountable for insights, information and products that provide a holistic view of the department.
• You will have Line Management responsibilities. You will be required to mentor and coach team members and share expert knowledge.

Hybrid working

This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home.

This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need, but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account.

This role can only be delivered from the UK.

Visa Sponsorship

For these vacancies, we strongly recommend that applicants consult with an immigration specialist or qualified advisor to assess their eligibility for Visa Sponsorship before deciding to apply. Please note that while we consider sponsorship requests in accordance with current DWP guidance and Home Office policy, sponsorship cannot be guaranteed.

Locations

You will be asked for your preferences for up to 3 locations, these will tell us where you would prefer to work if you are successful. Please do not select a location unless you are prepared to accept a role in that location.

Please note that for candidates requesting to work in Newcastle, this role will be based at Benton Park View from September 2025, and then at 1 Pilgrim Place in Newcastle city centre by the end of 2027.

Selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit, on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principleshere.

Successful candidates will be posted in merit order based on your location preferences, where appropriate, and the geographical requirements of the business.Dependent on your position on the merit list, if none of your location preferences remain at the point we make a job offer DWP may offer you a role at an alternative advertised location. If we are unable to offer you a role in any of your preferred locations, and you are unable to accept a role at an alternative advertised location, we will add you to the reserve list if one is being held.

Some travel may be required, but individuals’ circumstances will be taken into account.