Business Architect
Posted Today by NineTech
£80 Per hour
Outside
Remote
United Kingdom
Summary: The Business Architect role is a 6-month contract position focused on leading a major transformation programme for a technology client. The position requires a blend of business architecture expertise, stakeholder engagement, and practical delivery capabilities. The ideal candidate will have experience in defining operating models and ensuring alignment between business strategy and execution. This role involves hands-on strategic work with a focus on change management and process architecture.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and evolve the organisation’s operating model to support the shift from an outsourced model to a right-sourced model.
- Assess current vs. target state, identifying gaps and defining clear remediation plans.
- Ensure the business architecture directly supports the organisation’s strategic goals and transformation objectives.
- Guide the business through architectural and operating model changes, ensuring smooth transitions and stakeholder buy-in.
- Oversee the design and optimisation of core business processes to improve effectiveness and efficiency across the future-state model.
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams to capture requirements, communicate architecture decisions, and maintain alignment.
- Define and document the organisational capabilities required to achieve strategic goals.
- Identify and map end-to-end value streams that deliver value to customers.
- Design information flows and data models that underpin the target operating model.
- Establish and maintain governance frameworks to ensure business architecture standards are met and sustained.
Key Skills:
- Strong business acumen and strategic thinking.
- Demonstrable experience in operating model design and implementation.
- Deep understanding of business processes, information flows, and capability modelling.
- Hands-on experience with business architecture frameworks and methodologies (e.g., TOGAF, BIZBOK, etc.).
- Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication, and influencing skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Experience using business architecture and modelling tools.
- Previous involvement in transformation or right-sourcing initiatives highly desirable.
Salary (Rate): £600 per day
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Business Architect – 6-Month Contract (Outside IR35)
Rate: £600 per day (Outside IR35)
Location: Remote - Some Travel to London
Duration: 6 months
Start Date: ASAP
Overview
My Technology client are looking for an experienced Business Architect to join a major transformation programme. This is a hands-on strategic role requiring someone who can blend business architecture expertise with strong stakeholder engagement and practical delivery capability. Ideally this person will have a proven track record in defining operating models, identifying gaps, and ensuring alignment between business strategy and execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Operating Model Development
- Define and evolve the organisation’s operating model to support the shift from an outsourced model to a right-sourced model.
- Gap Analysis
- Assess current vs. target state, identifying gaps and defining clear remediation plans.
- Strategic Alignment
- Ensure the business architecture directly supports the organisation’s strategic goals and transformation objectives.
- Change Management
- Guide the business through architectural and operating model changes, ensuring smooth transitions and stakeholder buy-in.
- Process Architecture
- Oversee the design and optimisation of core business processes to improve effectiveness and efficiency across the future-state model.
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams to capture requirements, communicate architecture decisions, and maintain alignment.
- Capability Modelling
- Define and document the organisational capabilities required to achieve strategic goals.
- Value Stream Mapping
- Identify and map end-to-end value streams that deliver value to customers.
- Information Mapping
- Design information flows and data models that underpin the target operating model.
- Governance
- Establish and maintain governance frameworks to ensure business architecture standards are met and sustained.
Key Skills and Experience
- Strong business acumen and strategic thinking.
- Demonstrable experience in operating model design and implementation.
- Deep understanding of business processes, information flows, and capability modelling.
- Hands-on experience with business architecture frameworks and methodologies (e.g., TOGAF, BIZBOK, etc.).
- Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication, and influencing skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Experience using business architecture and modelling tools.
- Previous involvement in transformation or right-sourcing initiatives highly desirable.