Business Architect

Job id: 087805. Salary: £51,974 - £61,021 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 15 April 2024. Closing date: 05 May 2024.

Business unit: IT. Department: Architecture.

Contact details:Adam Fitton. [email protected]

Location: Guy's Campus. Category: Professional & Support Services.

The Business Architect will work within the Business Architecture team, part of Enterprise Architecture, and report to the Head of Business Architecture.

The post holder will collaborate, assist and coach other members within the team and be responsible for a full range of business architecture activities, which will help enable the operational effectiveness and adaptability as an agent for innovation and change, to help King’s exploit digital technology to secure advantage.

They will work in a team to proactively and holistically scope and support the delivery of King’s vision and strategies (Currently Vision 2029 and Strategy 2026; Student Success, a thriving King’s community, Sustainable Research and Innovation and the sharing of Knowledge with the world). This will involve building consensus amongst stakeholders with different concerns towards a desirable, feasible and viable target state and outcomes.

The post holder will be skilled in communication, facilitation, and relationship building, with a flair for tailored visualisations that simplify complex information to specialist and non-specialist audiences. They will take a practical approach to supporting colleagues across the King’s community which includes a 10,000 strong workforce, 34,000 students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, short course and lifelong learners, and an extensive research partner and funder ecosystem around the world within a complex organisation with annual revenue exceeding £1 billion.

The role will involve helping stakeholders realise future-state business capabilities by designing and testing operating models, architectural views, organisation options, business models, services, products, processes and roadmaps that are aligned with King’s strategic goals.

The post holder should also be capable of staying up to date and practically applying existing, new and emerging technologies and be comfortable working in a fast-paced, experimental environment within Higher Education.

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract   

This is a full-time post

• Lead the design, development and delivery of a full range of business architecture services and products. 
• Facilitate workshops and meetings with stakeholders to capture, define and maintain business architecture artifacts and data. 
• Develop maps, models, and views to address organisational and stakeholder needs and concerns. 
• Support the creation and ensure the maintenance of business architecture design documentation. 
• Assist the definition and coordinate delivery of targeted outcomes, provide advice, guidance, and recommendations.
• Lead the use of business architecture tools and techniques to support and guide decisions.
• Identify, evaluate, and recommend improvements and provide consultative analysis.
• Build and maintain stakeholder relationships cross functionally.
• Promote the identity and services of business architecture, demonstrating value, using a range of communications channels.
• Capture customer feedback and developing a backlog of continuous improvements. 
• Assist the development of the business architecture team’s capabilities, ways of working, reporting, and integration with the Enterprise Architecture team.
• Assist, coach and influence members of the team, the wider network of Architects and colleagues requesting business architecture services, embedding good practice across King’s. 
• Encourage and assist enterprise ideation and innovation. 
• Support internal team reporting to ensure metrics are up to date and correctly capture team efforts. 

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

• Understanding of business architecture frameworks, principles and processes and basic graphical modelling approaches, tools and model repositories 
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and diplomacy 
• Experienced in people management, communication, negotiation and presentation skills 
• Good grasp of the entities involved in an Enterprise Architecture 
• Aware of information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks 

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria