Business Architect

In this role, you’ll work at the intersection of business strategy and delivery, partnering with multidisciplinary teams to drive tangible outcomes that strengthen our public services and national security. You’ll draw on business architecture principles, like capability mapping, value streams, and operating model design to create a common language, enabling leaders and teams to spot gaps, opportunities, and interdependencies with ease.

Whether you’re developing long-term strategies, supporting portfolio decisions for transformative digital initiatives, or facilitating knowledge sharing within the architecture and business design community, your input will shape how the Home Office functions at every level.

On a typical day, you could be translating high-level policy goals into actionable design artefacts for a new service, collaborating with technical architects to keep business and technology in sync, or coaching a junior colleague through best practices in knowledgebase interrogation and management.

You’ll also have a hand in defining and maintaining the department’s architectural tooling, standards, and approaches, ensuring decisions are consistently well-informed, user-centred, and forward-looking.

Ultimately, your ability to synthesize complexity, build consensus, and promote structured thinking will help deliver services that are more intuitive, integrated, and resilient benefiting the public and advancing the Home Office’s overarching mission.

Main Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain business architecture artefacts (e.g., capability models, value streams) that clarify complex issues and guide change initiatives.
• Influence portfolio/programme delivery, shaping priorities and aligning solutions with strategic objectives.
• Collaborate with technical architects, ensuring alignment between business needs and technology roadmaps.
• Lead or support workshops on organisational design, capturing insights that inform strategy, solution development, and continuous improvement.
• Manage and update a central knowledgebase of standards, tools, and best practices, promoting consistency across teams.
• Mentor colleagues, sharing business architecture principles and methods to build internal capability.

UK residency and security requirements       

Please note that this role requires Security Check (SC) clearance, which would normally need 5 years’ UK residency in the past 5 years. 

However, in exceptional circumstances security clearance applications for candidates who have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years may be considered. Failure to meet this residency requirement will result in your security clearance application being rejected.