Concept IT, are currently looking for a Business Architect to join one of our central government clients on a contract basis to lead the Business Architecture for programmes and projects across the organisation.

In this role, you will:

• Understand and apply business architectural principles, techniques, and tools to business challenges.
• Ensure design work from projects and programmes align with strategy.
• Ensure business change is implemented effectively to meet strategy.
• Aggregate and disaggregate complex information from across your organisation.
• Communicate complex information about the organisation to stakeholders.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Business architecture frameworks, principles and techniques in your organisation.
• Advise and guide the organisation to inform the implementation of its strategy.
• Share the value of business architecture with the organisation.
• Produce clear multidimensional views of your organisation to support decision making.
• Mediate between people and mend relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and host or moderate discussions about high risk and complexity, even within constrained timescales.
• Speak on behalf of and represent the community to large audiences inside and outside of government.
• Provide advice and recommendations to stakeholders based on your significant specialist knowledge and experience.
• Lead the definition of guidance and inform how the organisation approaches delivery.
• Make decisions characterised by medium levels of risk and complexity and recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase.
• Build consensus between services or independent stakeholders.
• Build capability in methods and tools, ensuring they are adopted consistently and used effectively.
• Influence stakeholders and manage relationships effectively.
• Build long-term strategic relationships and communicate clearly and regularly with stakeholders.
• Demonstrate a good understanding of business issues, events and activities, and their short to long term impact.
• Support defining principles, patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements.
• Effectively focus on outcomes rather than solutions
• Help to develop, maintain or update strategy in response to feedback and findings.
• Define strategies and policies, providing guidance to others on working in the strategic context.
• Evaluate current strategies to ensure business requirements are being met and exceeded where possible.