Business Architect

Business Architect Position Details

Job Title:

Business Architect

Band: 5

Salary: £59,877 - £66,869

Location:

Liverpool / Newport / Norwich / Birmingham

Terms:

Permanent

Hours:

Full Time / Compressed Hours

Closing Date: 19 January 2026

Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level

Employment Type:

Full-time

Job Function:
Business Development and Sales

Industry: Government Administration

Would you like to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the Crown Commercial Service (CCS)? Do you thrive on turning strategic vision into tangible operational improvements? Are you passionate about leveraging innovation to achieve significant strategic goals? We are looking for innovative and strategically minded Business Architects to join our newly established Business Architecture function.

This critical and exciting opportunity requires strategic vision to harness innovation and align business strategy to drive operational improvements that deliver our strategic goals. Collaborating across the organisation to model value streams, services, capabilities, and processes, building a comprehensive understanding of the current enterprise landscape and mapping strategic change.

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.

In the Business Architecture and Continuous Improvement function you will be working closely with 6 permanent colleagues, and as part of a wider Strategy and Architecture domain tasked with developing the CCS Digital Strategy and Enterprise, Technology and Data Architecture.

• Apply and develop business architecture frameworks, principles, and techniques within CCS. Guide others in using appropriate business architectural tools and methods.
• Understand and apply business architectural principles, techniques, and tools to business scenarios.
• Create business architecture artefacts, including abstract representations of the organisation.
• Develop standard and scalable models to collect, aggregate, or disaggregate complex information.
• Support the definition of vision for business capabilities and value streams using various architecture and collaboration tools used within CCS.
• Identify and anticipate business impacts, issues, and activities, supporting the shaping of principles, patterns, standards, processes, plans, and policies accordingly.
• Contribute to the creation of transition plans, roadmaps, and strategic alignment, ensuring investments and initiatives align with business objectives.
• Engage with stakeholders to understand requirements and provide recommendations.
• Stay informed about external influences that may help or hinder strategic goals.
• Support process optimisation and improvement through analysis and design.

• Demonstrable experience in applying and developing Business Architecture frameworks and principles to model value streams, capabilities, services, and processes.
• Proven ability to translate strategic vision into tangible operational improvements and contribute to the creation of transition plans, roadmaps, and strategic alignment.
• Strong analytical and modelling skills to collect, aggregate, or disaggregate complex business information and support process optimisation and design.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills with the ability to gather requirements, provide recommendations, and guide others in using appropriate architectural tools and methods.

Behaviours:

• Working Together
• Seeing the bigger picture
• Changing and Improving

Technical

Skills:

• Business Architecture
• Communicating Information

• 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…