Job description Position: Head Of Business Architecture Band: 6 Salary: £70,389 - £78,760 Location: Liverpool, Newport, Norwich or Birmingham Term: Permanent Hours: Full Time/Part Time Closing Date: 01/07/25 Insight into CCS - Webinar Don't miss out on gaining valuable insight into CCS and our recruitment process! Join us on Monday 7th July at 5:30 PM. Please use this link to register your attendance for this session or any of our upcoming sessions. Would you like to be part of an enterprise function that shapes the future of the Crown Commercial Service by harnessing innovation and providing strategic vision to transform the organisation and achieve our goals? Job Summary This critical role is a unique and exciting opportunity to establish and lead a new Business Architecture function to align business strategy and identify opportunities to drive operational excellence. This involves collaborating with leadership to understand vision, and cross-functional teams to model value streams, capabilities and processes that support our understanding of the current landscape and the definition of a target enterprise architecture. Directorate Overview The Digital & Data Services (DDS) directorate is at the heart of CCS's digital transformation journey, responsible for delivering modern, efficient, and user-centred digital services that support over £30bn of public sector procurement annually. We're building a world-class digital capability that will revolutionise how the public sector buys common goods and services. Team Summary You will be joining the Digital Strategy & Design team within CCS, part of the wider Digital and Data Services (DDS) Directorate which plays a critical role in understanding current states, designing the strategic future state of the organisation and driving its adoption. Key responsibilities: 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 (to be assessed at application stage): 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. Success profiles (To be assessed at interview stage): Behaviours: Leadership Communicating and influencing Seeing the bigger picture Working together Changing and improving Technical: Business Architecture capabilities (A link to the Civil Service Success Profiles Framework is provided below) Success Profiles Framework Assessment If you are shortlisted, you will 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. 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) Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank 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 At CCS, we actively support, promote and celebrate our differences for the benefit of our employees, suppliers and customers. CCS is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. CCS believes that diversity and inclusion is critical to our success and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people. 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 and interview times and dates to be confirmed. 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.