Business Architect

4 months, 1 week ago
Full-time
Senior
Project and Program Management
Methods

Methods

Methods is a top digital transformation partner for the UK public sector, delivering people-centered, safe, and future-focused solutions through innovation and collaboration.

Professional Services
251-1K
Founded 1990

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 aligned to delivery rather than 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.
  • Contribute to the Business Change Community of Practice and mentor others in Business Architecture best practice.

Requirements

  • Extensive business architecture experience or equivalent knowledge, ideally informed by recognised bodies such as BCS, BIZBOK, or TOGAF.
  • Experience leading business architecture as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
  • Ability to select appropriate business modelling techniques to clarify situations, problems, and solutions.
  • Ability to recommend, influence, and lead improvements to business capabilities aligned to strategic activity.
  • Ability to define and communicate business models and information flows that support digital transformation.
  • Experience managing conceptual models such as capabilities, value streams, operating models, and service models across different change methodologies.
  • Experience developing and communicating usable business architectures, including identifying issues, omissions, and escalations.
  • Experience leading work effectively in fast-paced environments using both agile and waterfall methodologies.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, including the ability to understand objectives and resolve tension and conflict.
  • Strong problem-solving, analytical, critical, and conceptual thinking skills, plus strong written and verbal communication.
  • Knowledge of UK public services and/or regulated industries, with sector knowledge in one or more areas.
  • Desirable: understanding of systems thinking, complexity theory, and human-centred design.
  • Desirable: familiarity with the public services and technology marketplace, including products, platforms, and emerging technologies.
  • Desirable: experience with agile, SAFe, or scaled delivery frameworks.
  • Desirable: experience using JIRA, Azure DevOps, Teams, Slack, MIRO, or Mural.
  • Desirable: specialist knowledge in a business domain, digital specialism, security, data, privacy, or complex financial issues.

Benefits

  • Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience.
  • Opportunity to work on projects that make a difference in society.
  • Strong, inspiring, and thought-provoking leadership.
  • Supportive and collaborative working environment.
  • Access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme, and training.
  • 24/7 confidential employee assistance programme.
  • Flexible working, including home working and part-time options.
  • 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to buy 5 extra days each year.
  • 2 paid volunteering days per year.
  • Salary Exchange pension scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution.
  • Discretionary company bonus based on company and individual performance.
  • Private medical insurance and worldwide travel insurance, both non-contributory and including spouse and dependants.
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
  • Season ticket loan and cycle-to-work scheme.

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