Business Architect

🕒 January 15

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏛️ Architect

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Methods

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201 - 500 employees

Methods is the leading digital transformation partner for the UK public sector. We care deeply about making our public services better and have been doing this for 28 years.

📋 Description

• Lead and contribute to **business architecture and operating-model work** across discovery, design and delivery phases • Develop and maintain **capability models, value streams, service maps, operating models and transformation roadmaps** • Translate complex organisational and delivery challenges into **clear, structured, decision-ready artefacts** • Work with **product, delivery, technology and policy teams** to align change initiatives to **strategic and organisational intent** • Facilitate senior-level workshops to support **portfolio prioritisation, investment decisions and organisational design** • Ensure business architecture is **practical, usable and delivery-aligned**, not academic or unimplementable • Support the integration of **business architecture with agile, programme and portfolio delivery** • Assure quality, coherence and traceability of business architecture artefacts across engagements • Contributing to Methods Business Change Community of Practice and mentoring others in Business Architecture

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive Business Architecture or relevant knowledge gained from recognised bodies (BCS, BIZBOK, TOGAF). • Leading business architecture as part of a multi-disciplinary team. • Demonstrably able to select the appropriate business modelling techniques that are most effective to help people understand the situations, problems, and solutions. • Can recommend, influence and lead improvements to business capabilities that align delivery to strategic activity • Define and communicate business models and information flows that can be supported appropriately with digital transformation. • Demonstrate a breadth of effective techniques that define and manage conceptual models (capabilities, value streams, operating and service models) with others, in a range of different types of change methodologies and situations. • Manage the development and communication of useable business architectures, identifying issues and omissions and managing escalations. • Leading work that delivers effectively and efficiently in fast paced environments, in agile and waterfall project methodologies. • Extensive experience of working in different project methodologies and awareness of how to adapt their practice. • Excellent stakeholder management to understand objectives and resolve tension and conflict. • Strong problem solving, analytical, critical and conceptual thinking skills, including the ability to create clear observations, analysis and conclusions based on customer interviews, published requirements and data. • A skilled written and verbal communicator. • Pro-active approach to personal and professional development, and mentoring of others in Business Architecture Best practice • **Desirable Skills & Experience:** • Understanding of complimentary practices such as Systems Thinking, Complexity Theory and Human Centred Design • Understanding of public services and technology marketplace with knowledge of products, platforms and emerging technologies. • Proven ability to work across **strategy, portfolio and delivery layers** • Specialist knowledge in a business domain or other digital specialism. • Specialist knowledge in security, data and privacy. • Knowledge and understanding of GDS Service Standards. • Knowledge and understanding of Agile, SAFe or scaled delivery frameworks • Experience in developing Business Architectures alongside teams working with development tools like JIRA, Azure DevOps or similar. • Experience in collaborative and remote tooling (Teams, Slack, MIRO, Mural). • Ability to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.

🏖️ Benefits

• Methods is passionate about its people; we want our colleagues to develop the things they are good at and enjoy. • By joining us you can expect: • · Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience • · Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society • · Strong, inspiring, and thought-provoking leadership • · A supportive and collaborative environment • As well as this we offer: • **Development** – access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme, and training • **Wellness** – 24/7 confidential employee assistance programme • **Flexible Working** – including home working and part time • **Social** – office parties, breakfast Tuesdays, monthly pizza Thursdays, Thirsty Thursdays, and commitment to charitable causes • **Time Off** – 25 days of annual leave a year, plus bank holidays, with the option to buy 5 extra days each year • **Volunteering** – 2 paid days per year to volunteer in our local communities or within a charity organisation • **Pension** – Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution • **Discretionary Company Bonus** – based on company and individual performance • **Life Assurance** – of 4 times base salary • **Private Medical Insurance** – which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included) • **Worldwide Travel Insurance** – which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included) • **Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay ** • **Travel **– season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme