Business Architect

Security Clearance: Active SC required (NPPV3 desirable)

Location: Fully Remote

Contract Type: Permanent

Amber Labs is a UK-based technology consultancy delivering innovative digital transformation across the public sector. We bring together talented people, technical expertise and a collaborative, people-first culture to solve complex challenges and deliver meaningful outcomes.

We believe in empowering our people to do their best work, encouraging continuous learning, technical excellence and innovation. At Amber Labs, you'll have the opportunity to work alongside talented professionals on challenging programmes that make a real difference, while developing your skills and progressing your career.

We are looking for an experienced Business Architect / Senior Business Analyst to support a major cloud re-architecture and technical debt reduction programme within a complex technology environment.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping future-state business and operational models, helping organisations simplify services, modernise infrastructure and maximise the value of cloud transformation. Working closely with business stakeholders, technical architects, engineers and operational teams, you will bridge the gap between business objectives and technical delivery, ensuring transformation activities deliver measurable business, security and operational benefits.

You’ll take ownership of understanding current-state capabilities, services and processes, identifying opportunities for improvement and translating complex requirements into clear, actionable recommendations. Your work will help inform migration priorities, reduce technical complexity and ensure future-state solutions are aligned with wider organisational goals.

This role would suit someone who combines strong business architecture or senior business analysis expertise with experience in large-scale technology transformation, cloud migration or infrastructure modernisation.

• Analyse and document current-state business capabilities, services, processes and operating models.
• Collaborate with technical architects and engineering teams to define future-state business and operational models.
• Identify business, operational and technical dependencies across multiple programmes, delivery teams and suppliers.
• Elicit, analyse and document business requirements, constraints, risks, assumptions and dependencies.
• Facilitate workshops with business, technical, operational and security stakeholders to establish requirements and agree transformation priorities.
• Support the prioritisation of cloud migration, technical remediation and service simplification activities.
• Develop business cases, options assessments and impact analyses to support informed decision-making.
• Maintain clear traceability between business objectives, requirements, technical deliverables and programme outcomes.
• Assess the impact of proposed changes on business capabilities, services, processes and operating models.
• Support change readiness, stakeholder engagement and adoption activities to enable successful implementation.
• Work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams to ensure transformation decisions deliver sustainable business and operational value.
• Proven experience working as a Business Architect or Senior Business Analyst on large-scale technology transformation programmes.
• Experience supporting cloud migration, infrastructure transformation, platform modernisation or similar complex technology initiatives.
• Strong business capability modelling and business process mapping skills.
• Demonstrable experience developing and documenting target operating models (TOMs).
• Excell…