Business Solutions Architect; Consultant

As a Business Solutions Architect at Actica, you will have the opportunity to provide support to a wide range of high-profile UK public sector and defence organisations. Your help will enable them to get the maximum benefit from their technology investments, and in doing so play a key role in nationally critical projects which make a real difference to people’s everyday lives.

You will use your architecture skills across a range of consulting projects and clients to provide high-value strategy, business analysis, technology and procurement consultancy to ensure any solution aligns with business strategy and aspirations. With expertise in using architectural practices across business and solution domains to enable large, complex businesses to plan, design and implement transformation programmes and projects, you will help clients to make informed decisions that provide real benefit.

Candidates must be eligible and willing to gain high level UK Security Clearance to apply for this position.

Key Responsibilities

Working either individually or as part of a larger Actica team, you will undertake a number of consultancy assignments, which could include:

• Providing architecture services in complex transformation programmes to enable alignment and drive coherent delivery based on value streams;
• Developing baseline and transition architectures to support the client's strategic and/or implementation planning of ICT services within a business change programme;
• Developing architecture views to describe all aspects of a client's organisation, such as its business, applications and data architecture;
• Developing and assuring high-level solution designs.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

The following attributes and areas of experience are essential for this role:

• Experience in using enterprise or business architecture frameworks and practices such as TOGAF to enable a large, complex business to plan, deliver and govern change;
• Experience producing architecture documentation, such as options assessments, suitable to engage business stakeholders in both informal and formal governance settings;
• A flexible, consulting mindset. The fast-moving nature of the ICT environment, together with the need to resource multiple, ad-hoc assignments, requires our consultants to be quick thinkers, proactive and self-motivated and have the ability to apply a structured approach to often unfamiliar subject matter;
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation and written communication skills.

The following desirable attributes and areas of experience will make you particularly suited to this role with Actica:

• Experience in the public sector, defence or financial services, preferably within the ICT context on enterprise solutions;
• Consulting experience in the public sector or defence;
• Architectural expertise in one or more of business, solutions or service architecture domains.

Almost all of our roles require a high degree of technical skill. That being said, we are consultants and therefore a wide and varied background is preferable as the capability to adapt quickly to change is often required.

You might not feel that your skills precisely match the requirements of this job specification; however, we encourage you to apply if this is a role that appeals to you. We require individuals with a broad skillset, so there may be other aspects of your experience which are equally important to us, but that are perhaps not listed in this specific role specification.

All candidates must be eligible and willing to gain UK Security Clearance to apply for this position

You will be given the opportunity to further your career in consulting, specialising in the application of a broad range of methodologies and technical specialisations to a wide range of business problems.

A career mentor will be on hand to provide support and guidance throughout your journey with Actica. You will also work with a performance and development manager who will conduct reviews with you to set career objectives and identify appropriate training courses should these be needed

About Actica:

Actica Consulting is a growing digital consultancy that works on some of the most nationally critical…