Summary: As a Senior Business Architect at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS), you will play a pivotal role in the organization's transformation towards a customer-focused and outcomes-driven model. Your responsibilities will include designing business architecture frameworks, aligning strategic goals with operational execution, and enhancing efficiency through collaboration across various teams. This position is integral to shaping the future operating model and ensuring the delivery of integrated services that maximize value for users. The role offers a hybrid working arrangement based in Bedford, with a contract duration of 12 months, extendable to 18 months.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain a business architecture framework aligned with MaPS’ strategic objectives.
• Map and optimize business capabilities, processes, and value streams for customer-focused services.
• Lead the development of target operating models to promote efficiency and improved outcomes.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure alignment between business strategy and operational delivery.
• Identify transformation opportunities to enhance organizational performance.
• Develop and embed business design principles for decision-making across the organization.
• Provide business architecture assurance to maintain coherence across projects and change activities.
• Act as a strategic connector between business and digital teams for cohesive service design.
• Translate complex concepts into actionable insights for senior stakeholders.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement using business architecture insights.

Key Skills:

• Experience in business architecture, enterprise architecture, or operating model design.
• Ability to map and optimize business capabilities and processes for strategic transformation.
• Strong understanding of digital services and customer-centric operating models.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and influencing skills at senior leadership levels.
• Strategic and analytical thinking with the ability to create actionable plans.
• Experience in public sector or complex multi-stakeholder environments.

Salary (Rate): 90000

City: Bedford

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: fixed-term

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: Other