Head Of Business Architecture

Contents

• Location
• About the job
• Benefits
• Things you need to know
• Apply and further information

Birmingham, Liverpool, London, Newport (Gwent), Norwich

About the job

Job summary

Would you like to be part of an enterprise function to achieve the strategic vision, innovation, and transformation that shapes the future of the Crown Commercial Services technology landscape and helps us achieve our strategic goals?

This role is being managed by Global Resourcing, please send any enquiries to [email protected] 

Job Summary

This is a critical role in aligning business strategy with operational excellence by developing, maintaining and optimising capabilities, value streams and processes. This involves collaborating with leadership to understand vision and cross-functional teams to design models that support strategic goals and Enterprise Architecture (EA) function to provide a north star, improve efficiency, and drive transformation activities.

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 Business Architecture team of Digital Strategy & Design 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.

Job description

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.

Person specification

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.

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Working Together
• Changing and Improving

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £70,389, Crown Commercial Service contributes £20,391 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

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 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 [email protected]

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.

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Global resourcing – Dave Flynn
• Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team

• Email : [email protected]

Further information

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 [email protected] in the first instance.

If you remain unsatisfied with the response you receive you can then contact the Civil Service Commission at [email protected]

https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/careers-with-ccs

Read Full Description