**BUSINESS ARCHITECT
**4 MONTHS
**750 - 850 p/d INSIDE IR35
**HYBRID - 2 DAYS p/w: NEWPORT/TITCHFIELD/DARLINGTON
Concept IT, are currently looking for a Business Architect to join one of our central government clients on a contract basis to lead the Business Architecture for programmes and projects across the organisation.
In this role, you will:
- Understand and apply business architectural principles, techniques, and tools to business challenges.
- Ensure design work from projects and programmes align with strategy.
- Ensure business change is implemented effectively to meet strategy.
- Aggregate and disaggregate complex information from across your organisation.
- Communicate complex information about the organisation to stakeholders.
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
- Business architecture frameworks, principles and techniques in your organisation.
- Advise and guide the organisation to inform the implementation of its strategy.
- Share the value of business architecture with the organisation.
- Produce clear multidimensional views of your organisation to support decision making.
- Mediate between people and mend relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels.
- Manage stakeholder expectations and host or moderate discussions about high risk and complexity, even within constrained timescales.
- Speak on behalf of and represent the community to large audiences inside and outside of government.
- Provide advice and recommendations to stakeholders based on your significant specialist knowledge and experience.
- Lead the definition of guidance and inform how the organisation approaches delivery.
- Make decisions characterised by medium levels of risk and complexity and recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase.
- Build consensus between services or independent stakeholders.
- Build capability in methods and tools, ensuring they are adopted consistently and used effectively.
- Influence stakeholders and manage relationships effectively.
- Build long-term strategic relationships and communicate clearly and regularly with stakeholders.
- Demonstrate a good understanding of business issues, events and activities, and their short to long term impact.
- Support defining principles, patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements.
- Effectively focus on outcomes rather than solutions
- Help to develop, maintain or update strategy in response to feedback and findings.
- Define strategies and policies, providing guidance to others on working in the strategic context.
- Evaluate current strategies to ensure business requirements are being met and exceeded where possible.