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Job Description
* Responsibilities
The role would focus on the following key areas
* Guide, develop, and govern the CCS Business Architecture function to shape the organisation’s long-term strategy and future state.
* Lead, coach and develop a team of business architects and continuous improvement practitioners
* Ensure alignment of Business Architecture with broader governance, mitigating risks and assuring corporate services.
* Define vision for business capabilities and value streams using various architecture and collaboration tools used within CCS.
* Identify and anticipate business impacts, issues, and activities, shaping principles, patterns, standards, processes plans and policies accordingly.
* Produce and maintain standard scalable models to make information accessible and actionable.
* Drive the creation of transition plans, roadmaps, and strategic alignment, ensuring technology investments and initiatives align with business objectives.
* Foster connections with senior stakeholders, actively seeking improvement opportunities.
* Stay attuned to external influences that may help or hinder strategic goals and inspire others toward organisational goals.
* Drive process optimisation and improvement through analysis and design.
Essential Criteria
* Leadership: Proven ability to provide strategic direction and mentorship to a business architecture team within a complex organisation
* Strategic Alignment: Proven capability to align Business Architecture to ensure effective delivery of transformation and technology initiatives align with strategy.
* Governance and Risk Management: Strong expertise in aligning with broader organisational governance.
* Stakeholder Engagement: Exceptional ability to foster meaningful connections with senior stakeholders, Communicating complex architectural concepts in a clear and impactful manner.
* Innovation Insight: Proven aptitude for staying abreast of emerging practices and external influences, using this insight to inspire innovation and drive digital transformation.
Assessment
If you are shortlisted, you will be asked to complete online psychometric tests and a feedback session with an Occupational Psychologist (allow up to 4.5 hours for this). You will also be asked to take part in a staff engagement exercise. These assessments will not result in a pass or fail decision. Rather, they are designed to support the panel's decision making and highlight areas for the panel to explore further at interview.
Success Profiles
Behaviours
We Will assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
* Leadership
* Communicating and influencing
* Seeing the bigger picture
* Working with Others
* Changing and improving
Skills
We will assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
* You will be tested on competencies aligned to the DDAT framework https://ddat-capability
Framework.service.gov.uk/role/business-architect)
What we will offer you, here are some of the benefits you can expect:
Competitive salary
Generous pension scheme
A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus
Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location
Flexi time scheme (available for B1-B6) (REMOVE FOR SCS1 AND ABOVE)
Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank holidays
Explore fully how we will reward your work.
Want to make a difference? Find out more about the rewarding work that we do in our candidate pack.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is
found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil ServiceD&I Strategy.
We want to make our recruitment process accessible to everyone, so if there is any way that we can support you, please contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk
Working flexibly, delivering outcomes
CCS is a flexible business with a smarter working model where our colleagues benefit from a mix of home and office working. Successful candidates are expected to work from one of the office locations listed. Our current office attendance approach requires a minimum of 26 days per quarter (approx 2 days per week, which may be subject to change) in CCS office locations or off site meetings with suppliers, customers, partners, networking / industry events. This is pro rata for those who work part time. Our smarter working principles mean that our people have the advantage of both office and offsite based collaboration and learning, as well as working from home. This way of working allows us to honour our commitment to being a responsible business, offer flexibility and better work life balance as well as ensuring we deliver our business with confidence and in accordance with our CCS values.
Selection Process
Candidates who are successful at sift will be contacted as soon as possible following the closing date and advised of the interview process in more detail. The sift will commence WC 30/06/25 and interviews will be held either at one of our offices or via video with interview times and dates to be confirmed. (Subject to change)
To find out more about our recruitment process please click here
Please note: Applicants can make use of artificial intelligence but the information presented at application must be factual.
A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, which the Civil Service may use to fill future suitably similar vacancies across government for candidates who are considered appointable following interview. Should you be placed on a reserve list and want to be removed please contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk.
Complaints procedure
Our recruitment processes are underpinned by the principle of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles details of which can be found at http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk in the first instance.
If you remain unsatisfied with the response you receive you can then contact the Civil Service Commission at info@csc.gov.uk
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
Complaints Procedure
Our recruitment processes are underpinned by the principle of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles details of which can be found at https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/recruitment/recruitment-principles/
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk in the first instance.
If you remain unsatisfied with the response you receive you can then contact the Civil Service Commission at info@csc.gov.uk
Internal candidates should apply using their Workday account. Please use the careers hub for your application.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Director
Employment type
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Full-time
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