As Business Architect in GDS Local, you will align service design, operating models, and technology, leading the development and application of business architecture to support digital transformation across local public services. You will shape direction, influence senior stakeholders, to ensure technology is applied appropriately within operating models, supporting services that are user?centred, interoperable, and aligned with the wider priorities of the Government Digital Service. Key responsibilities include providing business architecture leadership across GDS Local, shaping how services, operating models and technology come together to support digital transformation and improved outcomes across local public services leading the development of shared business architecture artefacts such as capability models, value streams, operating models and reference architectures that underpin coherent service design, delivery and reuse across local and central government translating complex service, policy and organisational challenges into clear, actionable architectural approaches, helping teams and decision?makers make informed choices about structure, technology and delivery models enabling innovation through architectural insight, identifying opportunities to redesign services, operating models and system boundaries in response to emerging technologies, delivery models and policy intent championing open standards, reusable patterns and shared platforms, promoting consistency, interoperability and cost?effective reuse across the local government service and technology landscape setting direction for architectural governance and assurance, ensuring business and service designs are coherent, sustainable and aligned with wider GDS and cross?government standards while remaining practical for local adoption working collaboratively across organisational boundaries, partnering with local authorities, central government departments and other partners to co?design service and operating models that meet real user and place?based needs influencing senior stakeholders and building confidence in architectural approaches, clearly communicating trade?offs, risks and options to both technical and non?technical audiences supporting capability building within GDS Local, mentoring colleagues, strengthening business architecture practice and contributing to a growing cross?government architecture community of practice