Business Architect

Business Architect

Fixed Term, Full Time

£60,049 to £70,645 per annum

Location:

Chelmsford

Working Style:
Anywhere worker

Please note this vacancy is available as a fixed term contract or secondment opportunity for up to 6 months.

Join a Council Shaping the Future of Public Services

Essex Digital Service is at the forefront of supporting Local Government Reorganisation across Essex - shaping how services are delivered not just within Essex County Council, but across the entire public sector landscape. We're building digital foundations and shared capabilities that make it easier, safer, and more joined‑up for residents and colleagues to get things done, wherever they are in Essex.

We design and deliver modern, user‑centred digital solutions that work seamlessly across organisations, enabling better outcomes in social care, education, transport, the environment and beyond. Our vision is to create digitally empowered, 21st‑century public services that operate across boundaries, strengthen collaboration, and deliver lasting value for every community in Essex.

In this strategic, timebound role, you'll play a pivotal part in shaping how public services are delivered across the whole of Essex as part of Local Government Reorganisation (LGR). You'll help design the future operating model for a more integrated, efficient, and citizen focused local government system. As a Business Architect, you'll lead a complex portfolio of cross organisation architecture and design work that enables collaboration, simplifies how services operate across boundaries, and supports Essex's ambition to build a modern, coherent, and digitally enabled public service landscape.

You'll bring expert insight, challenge assumptions, and foster innovation‑bridging the gap between strategy and delivery to help Essex partners make informed decisions and implement meaningful, system‑wide change.

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• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across ECC and the wider Essex system, providing expert guidance on current and future operating models that support evidence‑based decision‑making for Local Government Reorganisation.
• Develop a shared, system‑wide view of business needs, capabilities and end‑to‑end processes to inform strategic investment, integration and change planning across LGR partners.
• Create scalable business models and architectures using recognised frameworks to ensure alignment across councils and service areas involved in LGR.
• Analyse complex, cross‑organisational business and user challenges, assess digital and organisational maturity, and recommend solutions that drive system‑wide transformation and value.
• Lead the business architecture elements of high‑level business cases, ensuring they reflect LGR priorities, shared outcomes and collective funding considerations.
• Deliver a portfolio of business architecture and service design work, including future operating models and service structures, that strengthen consistency, efficiency and user experience across the Essex system.
• Collaborate with HR, organisational development teams and LGR work streams to assess transformation impacts and ensure change is well‑managed across multiple organisations.
• Explore and advocate for emerging technologies and shared digital capabilities that can enhance services and improve the operating model across Essex.
• Define and maintain principles, patterns and standards that guide a consistent, Essex‑wide approach to business architecture aligned with LGR ambitions.

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in a relevant subject, with extensive experience in business architecture within digital services or public sector environments.
• Accredited in TOGAF 9.2 (or similar), with working knowledge of frameworks such as Archi Mate, BPMN, COBIT, and IT4IT.
• Proven ability to analyse complex business problems and develop strategic, scalable solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience leading enterprise business solutions, including process reengineering and…