Senior Business Architect - SC Cleared - 6 Month Contract

Business Architect - £700 per day - 6 Month Contract

Rate: Up to £750 per day

Duration: 6 months (extendable)

IR35: Inside

Location: Hybrid - London

Clearance: SC Cleared

The Role:

A leading Central Government department is seeking an experienced Business Architect to join a multidisciplinary design team, responsible for the business architecture of a large, complex public service.

You will assess how proposed changes affect the wider business and technology landscape, shape current and target-state architecture, and develop practical roadmaps that support successful transformation. You will work alongside civil servants and a design lead, taking a whole-system view and producing high-quality designs that are right first time and move through governance with minimal rework.

Experience & Requirements:

• Strong experience in business architecture at senior practitioner level, including current-state and target-state architecture, capability mapping, value streams and strategic roadmaps.
• Strong experience developing and supporting Target Operating Models (TOMs) and future-state operating models.
• Proven ability to assess how strategic change impacts the business and operating model, including technology, and to align strategic objectives with the way the organisation works.
• Strong analytical skills, with experience identifying capability, process and organisational gaps and setting out the changes needed to address them.
• Ability to translate complex business information into clear, structured recommendations.
• Strong systems thinking, with experience of whole-system impacts, dependencies, risks and transition planning.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with confidence engaging senior stakeholders across strategic and operational levels.
• Comfortable working collaboratively in blended teams of contractors and civil servants, including taking direction from design leadership where required.
• Experience supporting business transformation and digital change programmes.
• Willingness to bring constructive challenge and fresh perspectives, share best practice, and build the capability of the wider team through knowledge transfer.
• Ability to develop and embed business architecture principles, standards and best practice.
• Strong facilitation skills and a data-driven approach. Business analysis or service design experience is a plus, as the role may cross disciplines in smaller teams.
• Central Government, Public Sector or regulated environment experience is desirable.

If you are available and interested, please apply in the first instance and you will be contacted to discuss the position further.