Strategic Business Architect

Salary: £45,000 - 45,000 per year

• Proven experience working within the public sector or a similarly regulated environment
• Experience operating at a strategic level and working with senior stakeholders in complex organisations
• Strong background in business architecture, organisational design, or transformation
• Experience in business process modelling and the implementation of business and ICT initiatives
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts clearly
• Ability to influence and challenge constructively at senior levels
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities
• Project management certification, such as PRINCE2, or equivalent experience
• Degree in IT, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience
• Business Analysis qualification or equivalent experience

• Lead comprehensive stakeholder engagement to understand current practices, identify strengths and areas for improvement, and gather insight to guide consolidation, redesign, or realignment of processes and ways of working across the Service
• Work with strategic leaders to translate organisational insight, evidence, and strategic priorities into a coherent strategic vision, the Community Risk Management Plan, strategy, and a clearly defined target state for the Service
• Work closely with the Project Management Office to assess and strengthen the Services change portfolio, including evaluating cross-departmental interactions, identifying interdependencies, and supporting improved governance approaches
• Analyse organisational needs and translate them into clear, actionable requirements that inform change design, ensuring solutions are evidence-based, strategically aligned, and deliver measurable value to the Service
• Translate strategic priorities into coherent, delivery-focused change programmes by defining the required capabilities, processes, structures, and outcomes
• Play a key role in developing and delivering the Community Risk Management Plan, ensuring organisational design, capabilities, and processes are aligned to risk-based evidence and strategic intent
• Support the Annual Delivery Planning process, ensuring each ADP is deliverable and aligned to strategic objectives and the Community Risk Management Plan
• Provide expert business architecture insight to senior leaders and decision-making forums, clearly communicating organisational impacts, dependencies, and options to support effective strategic and operational decision-making
• Collaborate with ICT, Digital, and Data functions to ensure technology, data, and digital solutions are aligned to business capabilities and support the Services strategic and operational requirements

• ICT
• Support
• Architect

We are a leading Fire and Rescue Service in the East Midlands, based at Joint Headquarters, Sherwood Lodge, Arnold, Nottingham. We offer a permanent Grade 7 role working 37 hours per week with a salary of £44,075 to £48,226 per annum. We provide agile working, family-friendly flexibility, part-time working considerations, 26 days of annual leave plus bank holidays and a Christmas concessionary day, a wide range of health and wellbeing support including Bupa membership, a dedicated Occupational Health team and free gym access, a Blue Light Card for shopping and dining discounts, professional development opportunities, and access to a public service defined benefit pension scheme.

We are committed to keeping communities in Nottinghamshire safe and to supporting meaningful transformation across the Service.