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Business Architect (Design)

Employer
Apex Talent Solutions
Location
Homeworking
Salary
Up to £80,000 basic + benefits
Closing date
27 Feb 2023

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Clearance Level
SC
Sector
Central Government, Consultancy, Defence
Job Type
Permanent
  • Up to £80,000 basic + benefits
  • Remote / Occasional travel to client premise (UK)
  • SC Clearance Required

Summary Role Description:

Business Design Consultants help businesses to understand their desired objectives, develop transformation strategies and approaches, support Solution Design to achieve them and generate value and improved performance and experiences. They will analyse the business capabilities across a number of lenses including technology, people, processes and organisation to identify and help strengthen short-term performance and implement long-term solutions and improvements that can be maintained and are sustainable. The services supported are broadly in the following areas:

  • Formulating and articulating Transformation Strategies and Roadmaps including both short term, high ROI initiatives (i.e., low-hanging fruits) and long-term initiatives
  • Supporting and implementing Solution Design to reduce costs and improve both user and customer experience
  • Increasing the ability to support process automation and effectiveness to help reduce risks of error and maintain consistency of performance through modelling and automation technology selection assessments
  • Supporting the implementation of capabilities to increase customer and employee satisfaction
  • Supporting the implementation of digital capabilities to enable faster and richer engagement with customers
  • Supporting the development of Solutions to allow businesses to expand into new businesses or new channels / sectors
  • Outlining necessary changes to people and processes to enable and sustain the transformational change
  • Identification of changes required to businesses who wish to implement specific technologies / capabilities
  • Oversight and Leadership of Business Architecture and Business Analysis activities and supplier partner activities
  • Support for articulation of end-to-end solutions within client tender response documentation

Skills and Experience:

The following skills and experiences are essential:

  • Demonstrable experience providing transformation and solution design activities in Defence, Public or Private sectors.
  • Ability to understand and articulate business outcomes and requirements and identify and define solutions that will achieve the business objectives and deliver demonstrable value
  • Experience working with subject matter experts to generate and understand business needs and identify both business and technical solutions
  • Ability to model complex business operating models and articulate in a consumable manner the As Is and To Be along with the transition roadmap
  • Strong ability to convey technical ideas, concepts and procedures and manipulate text and images to create well-structured documentation that can be easily absorbed by a non-technical audience.
  • Knowledge of the key principles behind both Agile and Waterfall design methodologies.
  • Knowledge of different business operating models and their core purpose and capabilities
  • Experienced or qualified in Transformational Change Methodologies and Frameworks – e.g. TOGAF, Waterfall, Lean Six Sigma, Agile, DSDM etc
  • Depth and breadth of experience in end-to-end transformational change
  • Knowledge and experience with UX / CX and journey modelling
  • Experienced in business change modelling techniques – e.g., UML, BPM etc
  • Experienced with Change and Design Governance
  • Strong awareness of Data Architecture and Governance
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong ability to quickly build meaningful relationships and strong stakeholder engagement and management skills
  • Creative and innovative thinking to address design and development challenges.

Please note, the role holder will need to have, UK SC clearance.

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