Business Architect

As a Business Architect, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary, working with customers across the defence sector and the naval marine domain in particular. Day-to-day, you'll be responsible for the development of architectural artefacts/deliverables and act in a consultative capacity supporting the customer on a range of delivery/transformation programmes.

• Contribution to the selection/definition of context-appropriate architectural meta-models including industry standard (e.g. Archimate), extended/adapted and bespoke.
• Analysis of current and future business (process and organisation), information and applications to create associated architectural models and viewpoints. This will involve bottom-up analysis of physical artefacts (e.g. database schema) and review of documentation (e.g. quality management systems, specifications, etc.) supported by interviews and workshops with subject matter experts.
• Development of 'as-is' and 'to-be' architectures to support assessment of solution options and transformation programme/portfolio management.
• Liaison with internal and customer leadership in a consultative capacity to assist in development and communication of transformation strategy.
• Application of systems thinking and architectural principles to support project teams with development of user requirements, system requirements and solution specifications including high level designs and functional specifications etc.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements, with 2 days per week in the office and 3 days working from home.


• Excellent communication skills, able to distil and convey complex concepts to diverse audiences.
• Able to guide and influence customer understanding and thinking.
• Significant practical experience of the application of model driven architecture (framework agnostic) in support of business transformation.
• Able to guide and lead less experienced team members in model driven architecture.
• Domain experience in engineering and asset management preferably the context of any of naval marine, defence equipment and support and nuclear (defence and civil).
• Must be a professional, self-starter able to take responsibility for their own work without reliance on direct guidance and close supervision.
We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you., The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role., Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) What we offer
• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
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