The UK’s leading independent transformation partner for public services.
Business Architect
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
142 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Business Architect
Methods
• 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 delivery-aligned**, not 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 • Contributing to Methods Business Change Community of Practice and mentoring others in Business Architecture
Job Requirements
- Extensive Business Architecture or relevant knowledge gained from recognised bodies (BCS, BIZBOK, TOGAF).
- Leading business architecture as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Demonstrably able to select the appropriate business modelling techniques that are most effective to help people understand the situations, problems, and solutions.
- Can recommend, influence and lead improvements to business capabilities that align delivery to strategic activity
- Define and communicate business models and information flows that can be supported appropriately with digital transformation.
- Demonstrate a breadth of effective techniques that define and manage conceptual models (capabilities, value streams, operating and service models) with others, in a range of different types of change methodologies and situations.
- Manage the development and communication of useable business architectures, identifying issues and omissions and managing escalations.
- Leading work that delivers effectively and efficiently in fast paced environments, in agile and waterfall project methodologies.
- Extensive experience of working in different project methodologies and awareness of how to adapt their practice.
- Excellent stakeholder management to understand objectives and resolve tension and conflict.
- Strong problem solving, analytical, critical and conceptual thinking skills, including the ability to create clear observations, analysis and conclusions based on customer interviews, published requirements and data.
- A skilled written and verbal communicator.
- Pro-active approach to personal and professional development, and mentoring of others in Business Architecture Best practice
- Desirable Skills & Experience:**
- Understanding of complimentary practices such as Systems Thinking, Complexity Theory and Human Centred Design
- Understanding of public services and technology marketplace with knowledge of products, platforms and emerging technologies.
- Proven ability to work across **strategy, portfolio and delivery layers**
- Specialist knowledge in a business domain or other digital specialism.
- Specialist knowledge in security, data and privacy.
- Knowledge and understanding of GDS Service Standards.
- Knowledge and understanding of Agile, SAFe or scaled delivery frameworks
- Experience in developing Business Architectures alongside teams working with development tools like JIRA, Azure DevOps or similar.
- Experience in collaborative and remote tooling (Teams, Slack, MIRO, Mural).
- Ability to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.
Benefits
- Methods is passionate about its people; we want our colleagues to develop the things they are good at and enjoy.
- By joining us you can expect:
- Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
- Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
- Strong, inspiring, and thought-provoking leadership
- A supportive and collaborative environment
- As well as this we offer:
- Development** – access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme, and training
- Wellness** – 24/7 confidential employee assistance programme
- Flexible Working** – including home working and part time
- Social** – office parties, breakfast Tuesdays, monthly pizza Thursdays, Thirsty Thursdays, and commitment to charitable causes
- Time Off** – 25 days of annual leave a year, plus bank holidays, with the option to buy 5 extra days each year
- Volunteering** – 2 paid days per year to volunteer in our local communities or within a charity organisation
- Pension** – Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution
- Discretionary Company Bonus** – based on company and individual performance
- Life Assurance** – of 4 times base salary
- Private Medical Insurance** – which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
- Worldwide Travel Insurance** – which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay **
- Travel **– season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme
Related Guides
Related Categories
Related Job Pages
More Architect Jobs
• Design and implement a production-ready RAG architecture using Vertex AI, Gemini, and vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, ChromaDB) • Enable AI models to safely and reliably use business data from systems like Greenhouse, HubSpot, and QuickBooks • Build ingestion pipelines for unstructured data (documents, emails, logs) • Design agent-based systems and state machines that reason, retain context, and complete multi-step tasks • Build AI-driven workflows for use cases like recruiting operations and financial analysis • Own the architecture of a cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS/ERP-style platform • Design for data isolation, permissions, auditability, and compliance • Provision and manage infrastructure using Terraform across AWS and GCP • Build backend services using TypeScript/Node.js and Python • Design event-driven systems with queues, retries, idempotency, and DLQs • Integrate external systems via REST/GraphQL APIs, OAuth, and webhooks • Own observability, reliability, and production readiness • Lead code reviews and enforce PR standards • Own GitHub repositories and CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions • Implement secure SDLC practices (secrets, environments, branch protection) • Drive release discipline (versioning, tagging, changelogs) • Partner closely with product, leadership, and clients • Translate operational problems into scalable AI architectures with measurable outcomes • Clearly communicate technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders
Copilot Studio Architect – Microsoft Services Consulting
Cyclotron, Inc.Cyclotron, Inc., founded in 2014, is a technology consultancy firm specializing in IT strategy, cloud collaboration, security, and digital transformation solutions. With a mission
• Design, develop, and deploy technical solutions using the Power Platform (Copilot Studio, Power Apps, Power Automate) • Participate in workshops with customers and business analysts to gather and understand business requirements • Implement integrations with third-party applications, services, and APIs • Conduct PoCs (Proof of Concepts) and demos to showcase configured Copilot Studio / Power Platform solutions • Ensure best practices in governance, security, and performance optimization across Power Platform environments • Generate technical documentation to enable successful transition to customers • Perform quality assurance to ensure the solutions function as expected • Stay up-to-date with the latest developments of the Power Platform and provide ongoing consultation to clients on best practices and new features
• Lead technical onboarding and enablement programs to drive high customer adoption and satisfaction. • Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer teams, understanding their goals and challenges. • Plan and deliver regular Business Value Reviews to demonstrate progress toward customers’ goals, product usage, and realized value. • Proactively monitor customer health and usage metrics. • Deliver hands-on support in the Infrastructure-as-Code module. • Guide customers in building and improving Internal Developer Platforms on Kubernetes. • Contribute your expertise to new domains such as Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI). • Act as the voice of the customer internally.
Service Architect
NCR CorporationNCR has separated into two separate and distinct companies: @NCRVoyix and @NCRAtleos.
• Lead the design and development of end-to-end service solutions, including Break/Fix, Managed Services, and multivendor support. • Assess technical feasibility, cost elements, and profitability of proposed solutions to ensure alignment with NCR’s business objectives. • Own the internal approval process for service proposals prior to customer submission. • Drive the creation and negotiation of customer contracts through to signature. • Collaborate with global teams and partners to build scalable, multi-region service models. • Deliver compelling presentations and documentation that clearly articulate the business value of proposed services. • Support the development of reusable assets including design templates, proposal documents, and pre-sales materials. • Challenge commercial models to enhance competitiveness and customer value. • Ensure timely delivery of comprehensive service design documentation.



