Business Architect
Location
Titchfield, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
12/21/2024
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Description
Location
ONS operates a flexible hybrid working model across the UK, with colleagues linked to one of our contractual locations in Newport, Titchfield (Fareham) or Manchester and working between office and remote throughout the week.
As part of the hybrid working arrangement there is 40% a minimum office attendance requirement. Attendance is typically at your contractual office, with occasional travel to alternative locations. Due to estates constraints, there are currently temporary exceptions to this for colleagues based at Manchester who are required to attend the office for a minimum of 20% of their work time.
About The Job
Job summary
Are you an experienced Business Architect looking for a role where you can make a real impact, using your technical experience to enable us to deliver our Statistics for the Public Good strategy for the UK?
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK’s largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime and migration.
We are looking for experienced Business Architect to join our Business Design and Architecture team. Business Architecture is still relatively new to the organisation, so its an exciting time to join us and help shape the function and share with people across the organisation the value this function can bring. We are looking for people who thrive on a challenge, love to solve complex problems and have an ability to communicate architecture in a simple and easy to understand way.
Job Description
A Business Architect develops an integrated view of an enterprise, such as a business area or organisation. They use this view to help their organisation put its strategy in place.
In this role, you will:
Responsibilities
The Business Architect helps to shape the ‘Business Design’ from a people, process, information and technology perspective. They play a lead role in implementing the Vision & Strategy and are committed to continuous improvement and optimization.
A Business Architect uses their knowledge and experience to understand business scenarios, communicate the issues and recommend next steps. They support and guide other business architects.
At this role level, you will:
Essential Skills Criteria
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
Alongside your salary of £56,020, Office for National Statistics contributes £16,228 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
The Office for National Statistics is part of the Civil Service, and as such we share a number of key benefits with other departments, whilst also having our own unique offerings to support our 5400 valued colleagues across the business.Whether you are hearing about us for the first time or already know a bit about our organisation, we hope that the benefits pack attached (bottom of page) will give you a great insight into the benefits and facilities available to our colleagues and our fantastic working culture.
This role is part of the cross-government Government Digital and Data (formerly DDaT) profession framework. As a role within Government Digital and Data (formerly DDaT) at the ONS, we also offer benefits such as:
Inclusion & Accessibility
At ONS we are always looking to attract the very best people from the widest possible talent pool, and we are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunities employer.
As part of our application process, you will be prompted to provide details of any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process that you need. If you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments before applying, please contact the recruitment team in the first instance.
If you would like an accessible version of any of the attachments or recruitment documents below or linked to in this advert, please contact the recruitment team who will be happy to assist.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window) , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
Applicant support
Applicants may utilise AI resources in their submissions; ensuring all information provided is factually accurate, truthful, and original, avoiding any form of plagiarism to maintain the authenticity and credibility of the application process.
Please note that all campaigns may be subject to withdrawal at any stage if the internal resource position changes.
Stage 1 – Application & Sift
The assessment process at the application stage will be based on your work history, skills, experience, CV, and personal statement. It is important that your application is tailored to highlight the skills, knowledge and experience relevant to the role.
Your CV should be tailored to demonstrate any skills, knowledge and experience that are relevant to the content of the role detailed in the essential skills. More information and details can be found in the role profile which is attached below.
Your personal statement should be no longer than 1250 words. You should provide evidence for each essential skill criterion (and any technical criteria) listed in the person specification. As these criteria are scored, it is advisable to give clear examples for each one, including the impact of your actions, ideally utilising the STAR technique (Situation, Task, Action, Result).
Please note that Success Profiles Behaviour examples are not required at this stage of the application process.
In cases where a high number of applications are received, the sift pass mark may be adjusted and candidates will be invited to interview in merit order, i.e. those with the highest scores.
Stage 2 – Interview
Should you be invited to interview, you will be assessed using assessment techniques aligned to the Civil Service Success Profiles framework, covering all the behaviours listed in the job advert and any technical skills.
A presentation will be required at interview. Further information will be provided to successful candidates prior to interview.
Interviews will take place 17/1/2025 and in all cases will be conducted by video/MS Teams.
A reserve list may be held for a period up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made.
Important Dates:
Sift date: From 8/1/2025
Interview date: 17/1/2025
Dates subject to change.
For the full terms and conditions of the post, please see the attachment below.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality Requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window) .
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
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 (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window) .
Apply and further information
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
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 :
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact recruitment.complaints@ons.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission
ONS operates a flexible hybrid working model across the UK, with colleagues linked to one of our contractual locations in Newport, Titchfield (Fareham) or Manchester and working between office and remote throughout the week.
As part of the hybrid working arrangement there is 40% a minimum office attendance requirement. Attendance is typically at your contractual office, with occasional travel to alternative locations. Due to estates constraints, there are currently temporary exceptions to this for colleagues based at Manchester who are required to attend the office for a minimum of 20% of their work time.
About The Job
Job summary
Are you an experienced Business Architect looking for a role where you can make a real impact, using your technical experience to enable us to deliver our Statistics for the Public Good strategy for the UK?
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK’s largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime and migration.
We are looking for experienced Business Architect to join our Business Design and Architecture team. Business Architecture is still relatively new to the organisation, so its an exciting time to join us and help shape the function and share with people across the organisation the value this function can bring. We are looking for people who thrive on a challenge, love to solve complex problems and have an ability to communicate architecture in a simple and easy to understand way.
Job Description
A Business Architect develops an integrated view of an enterprise, such as a business area or organisation. They use this view to help their organisation put its strategy in place.
In this role, you will:
- Understand and apply business architectural principles, techniques, and tools to business challenges.
- Ensure design work from projects and programmes aligns with strategy.
- Ensure business change is implemented effectively to meet strategy.
- Aggregate and disaggregate complex information from across your organisation.
- Communicate complex information about the organisation to stakeholders.
Responsibilities
The Business Architect helps to shape the ‘Business Design’ from a people, process, information and technology perspective. They play a lead role in implementing the Vision & Strategy and are committed to continuous improvement and optimization.
A Business Architect uses their knowledge and experience to understand business scenarios, communicate the issues and recommend next steps. They support and guide other business architects.
At this role level, you will:
- Support executive level work and management of the business architecture practice.
- 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, knowing when to apply them.
- Develop standard and scalable models to collect, aggregate, or disaggregate complex information.
Essential Skills Criteria
- Business Architecture - Apply and develop business architecture frameworks, principles, and techniques in your organisation. Advise and guide the organisation to inform the implementation of its strategy. Share the value of business architecture with the organisation. You can produce clear multidimensional views of your organisation to support decision making.
- Methods and Tools - A ble to contribute or lead on the following: Motivation models, Operating Models, Business Model canvas, SWOT/PESTLE analysis, Strategy and Business Capability maturity assessments.
- Communicating information - M ediate between people and mend relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels.
- Stakeholder relationship management - Influence stakeholders and manage relationships effectively. Build long-term strategic relationships and communicate clearly and regularly with stakeholders.
- Strategic design and business change - Support defining principles, patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps, and vision statements.
- Strategic Thinking - Define strategies and policies, providing guidance to others on working in the strategic context. Evaluate current strategies to ensure business requirements are being met and exceeded where possible.
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Methods and Tools
- build capability in methods and tools, ensuring they are adopted consistently and used effectively.
Alongside your salary of £56,020, Office for National Statistics contributes £16,228 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
The Office for National Statistics is part of the Civil Service, and as such we share a number of key benefits with other departments, whilst also having our own unique offerings to support our 5400 valued colleagues across the business.Whether you are hearing about us for the first time or already know a bit about our organisation, we hope that the benefits pack attached (bottom of page) will give you a great insight into the benefits and facilities available to our colleagues and our fantastic working culture.
This role is part of the cross-government Government Digital and Data (formerly DDaT) profession framework. As a role within Government Digital and Data (formerly DDaT) at the ONS, we also offer benefits such as:
- Protected Learning Time to spend on your personal development and side-projects.
- A supportive and active Community of Practice which you will be expected to contribute to, helping ensure you and your colleagues get the training, development and opportunities you need to progress your careers.
Inclusion & Accessibility
At ONS we are always looking to attract the very best people from the widest possible talent pool, and we are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunities employer.
As part of our application process, you will be prompted to provide details of any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process that you need. If you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments before applying, please contact the recruitment team in the first instance.
If you would like an accessible version of any of the attachments or recruitment documents below or linked to in this advert, please contact the recruitment team who will be happy to assist.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window) , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
Applicant support
Applicants may utilise AI resources in their submissions; ensuring all information provided is factually accurate, truthful, and original, avoiding any form of plagiarism to maintain the authenticity and credibility of the application process.
Please note that all campaigns may be subject to withdrawal at any stage if the internal resource position changes.
Stage 1 – Application & Sift
The assessment process at the application stage will be based on your work history, skills, experience, CV, and personal statement. It is important that your application is tailored to highlight the skills, knowledge and experience relevant to the role.
Your CV should be tailored to demonstrate any skills, knowledge and experience that are relevant to the content of the role detailed in the essential skills. More information and details can be found in the role profile which is attached below.
Your personal statement should be no longer than 1250 words. You should provide evidence for each essential skill criterion (and any technical criteria) listed in the person specification. As these criteria are scored, it is advisable to give clear examples for each one, including the impact of your actions, ideally utilising the STAR technique (Situation, Task, Action, Result).
Please note that Success Profiles Behaviour examples are not required at this stage of the application process.
In cases where a high number of applications are received, the sift pass mark may be adjusted and candidates will be invited to interview in merit order, i.e. those with the highest scores.
Stage 2 – Interview
Should you be invited to interview, you will be assessed using assessment techniques aligned to the Civil Service Success Profiles framework, covering all the behaviours listed in the job advert and any technical skills.
A presentation will be required at interview. Further information will be provided to successful candidates prior to interview.
Interviews will take place 17/1/2025 and in all cases will be conducted by video/MS Teams.
A reserve list may be held for a period up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made.
Important Dates:
Sift date: From 8/1/2025
Interview date: 17/1/2025
Dates subject to change.
For the full terms and conditions of the post, please see the attachment below.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality Requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window) .
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
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 (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window) .
Apply and further information
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
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 : Government Digital and Data Recruitment team
- Email : Government-Digital-and-Data-Recruitment@ons.gov.uk
- Email : Government-Digital-and-Data-Recruitment@ons.gov.uk
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact recruitment.complaints@ons.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission
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