Merge pull request #67 from DFE-Digital/business-architect-JDs

Added Business Architect & Lead Business Architect JDs

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+title: Business architect
+weight: 75
+layout: listing
+---
+
+# Business architect
+
+As a business architect, you will work with roles such as business strategists, policy leads and product owners plus Enterprise, Solution and Technical Architects, to ensure business strategies align with operational and technological capabilities, working either within or across delivery portfolios. You will support the development and deployment of business architecture in your team and the wider organisation. You will also support and guide other business architects.
+
+## The role
+
+A business architect uses their extensive knowledge and experience to address business scenarios, creating business capability maps, value streams, business models, organisation and information maps to facilitate the understanding of what a business does and how a business operates with the goal of improving business functions delivering value for their organisation and users.
+
+A business architect communicates the issues and recommends next steps creating and overseeing the development of business architecture artifacts and aligning business goals with Technology strategies.
+
+Your main responsibilities will include:
+
+- Supporting executive level work and managing the business architecture practice
+- Guiding others in using appropriate business architectural tools and methods
+- Understanding and applying business architectural principles, techniques, and tools to business scenarios
+- Creating business architecture artefacts, including abstract representations of the organisation, and knowing when to apply them
+- Developing standard and scalable models to collect, aggregate, or disaggregate complex information
+
+## Skills you need
+
+It is essential that you can demonstrate the following skills and experience in your application and at the first stage interview:
+
+- Applying and developing business architecture frameworks, principles and techniques in an organisation
+- Advising and guiding an organisation to inform the implementation of its strategy
+- Sharing the value of business architecture with an organisation 
+- Producing clear multidimensional views of an organisation to support decision making
+- Providing advice and recommendations to stakeholders based on your significant specialist knowledge and experience
+- Leading the definition of guidance and informing how an organisation approaches delivery
+- Making decisions characterised by medium levels of risk and complexity, and recommending decisions as risk and complexity increase
+- Building consensus between services or independent stakeholders
+
+In addition, the following essential criteria will also need to be demonstrated at the second interview stage. You will need to show that you can:
+
+- Mediate between people and mend relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels
+- Manage stakeholder expectations and host or moderate discussions about high risk and complexity, even within constrained timescales
+- Speak on behalf of and represent the community to large audiences inside and outside of government
+- Build capability in methods and tools, ensuring they are adopted consistently and used effectively
+- Influence stakeholders and manage relationships effectively
+- Build long-term strategic relationships and communicate clearly and regularly with stakeholders
+- Demonstrate a good understanding of business issues, events and activities, and their short to long term impact
+- Support defining principles, patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements
+- Effectively focus on outcomes rather than solutions
+- Help to develop, maintain or update strategy in response to feedback and findings
+- 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
+
+It is desirable that you demonstrate the following:
+
+- Experience of business analysis
+- Experience of systems thinking abilities, seeing the big picture
+- Advanced listening and interrogating skills, asking questions to extract valuable business information
+
+Please note that desirable criteria will only be considered to make an informed decision in the event of a tie.
+
+## Selection process
+
+### Application
+
+Candidates should complete the advertised Civil Service Jobs application by submitting a completed application form and CV, explaining how they meet the essential criteria specified under the Selection Criteria heading in the advert.
+
+CV details need to be included in the template within the application form which is accessible through the Civil Service Jobs advert. Emailed CVs will not be considered.
+
+### Sift
+
+Applications will be sifted by a panel who will look further at the evidence provided. The CV will be assessed in-line with the essential criteria listed in the advert.
+
+Depending on the number of candidates who meet the minimum pass mark at sift, you may be invited to a first stage interview.
+
+### First stage interview
+
+Longlisted candidates may be invited to attend a preliminary interview, which will be conducted via telephone, typically involving a commitment of up to 1 hour. The interview will consist of a series of questions to further assess the essential criteria listed in this advert.
+
+As interviews will be conducted via telephone, please ensure that you are in a suitable location to hear and answer the questions.
+
+If successful, candidates will then be invited to a second interview, which will be conducted via a video call.
+
+### Second stage interview
+
+At this interview, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of the essential skills, specified as being assessed at the second stage interview, under the **Selection Criteria** heading.
+
+Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview.
+

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+title: Lead business architect
+weight: 70
+layout: listing
+---
+
+# Lead business architect
+
+As a lead business architect, you will provide strategic direction and leadership for the business architecture capability. Working with stakeholders you will set the vision for business architecture ensuring all business architecture activities align with business strategic goals. You will provide essential support and guidance for all other business architects.
+
+## The role
+
+A lead business architect uses their expert knowledge and experience to direct work addressing high level and complex business scenarios, leading the development and deployment of business architecture in the wider organisation, supporting and leading all other business architects.
+
+Your main responsibilities will include:
+
+- Be accountable for outputs produced by business architects
+- Lead and direct the application of architectural principles, methods, and tools to business scenarios
+- Use architectural methods to form a view of the whole enterprise in a way that is easily understood by stakeholders
+- Work with and influence stakeholders at executive levels
+- Provide overall direction, guidance, and definition of business architecture to support business and more general architecture strategy
+- Develop and maintain a strong business architecture capability through coaching, mentoring, and training
+
+## Skills you need
+
+It is essential that you can demonstrate the following skills and experience in your application and at the first stage interview:
+
+- Simplifying complex business architecture frameworks into clear actions
+- Developing business architecture maturity in an organisation, such as through a community of practice
+- Leading or guiding others in using best practice for business architecture, such as industry standards
+- Identifying strategic misalignment within an organisation and making recommendations for improvement
+- Providing advice and recommendations to stakeholders based on your significant specialist knowledge and experience
+- Leading the definition of guidance and informing how an organisation approaches delivery
+- Making decisions characterised by medium levels of risk and complexity, and recommending decisions as risk and complexity increase
+- Building consensus between services or independent stakeholders
+
+In addition, the following essential criteria will also need to be demonstrated at the second interview stage. You will need to show that you can:
+
+- Mediate between people and mend relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels
+- Manage stakeholder expectations and host or moderate discussions about high risk and complexity, even within constrained timescales
+- Speak on behalf of and represent the community to large audiences inside and outside of government
+- Set direction and give others the means and authority to advise on the best methodologies and tools for the work, ensuring they are adopted consistently
+- Assess the effectiveness of different approaches (such as Agile or plan-driven) and recommend tools to support organisational collaboration and build capability
+- Direct the strategy towards stakeholder relationships
+- Set stakeholder objectives and ensure that they’re met
+- Influence important senior stakeholders and provide mediation
+- Demonstrate a strong understanding of business issues, events and activities and their short to long term impact
+- Define principles, patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements
+- Effectively focus on outcomes rather than solutions and activities
+- Develop, maintain or update strategy in response to feedback and findings
+- Lead the design and implementation of strategy, directing the evaluation of strategies and policies to ensure business requirements are being met
+
+It is desirable that you demonstrate the following:
+
+- Experience of business analysis
+- Experience of systems thinking abilities, seeing the big picture
+- Excellent listening and interrogating skills, asking questions to extract valuable business information
+
+Please note that desirable criteria will only be considered to make an informed decision in the event of a tie.
+
+## Selection process
+
+### Application
+
+Candidates should complete the advertised Civil Service Jobs application by submitting a completed application form and CV, explaining how they meet the essential criteria specified under the Selection Criteria heading in the advert.
+
+CV details need to be included in the template within the application form which is accessible through the Civil Service Jobs advert. Emailed CVs will not be considered.
+
+### Sift
+
+Applications will be sifted by a panel who will look further at the evidence provided. The CV will be assessed in-line with the essential criteria listed in the advert.
+
+Depending on the number of candidates who meet the minimum pass mark at sift, you may be invited to a first stage interview.
+
+### First stage interview
+
+Longlisted candidates may be invited to attend a preliminary interview, which will be conducted via telephone, typically involving a commitment of up to 1 hour. The interview will consist of a series of questions to further assess the essential criteria listed in this advert.
+
+As interviews will be conducted via telephone, please ensure that you are in a suitable location to hear and answer the questions.
+
+If successful, candidates will then be invited to a second interview, which will be conducted via a video call.
+
+### Second stage interview
+
+At this interview, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of the essential skills, specified as being assessed at the second stage interview, under the **Selection Criteria** heading.
+
+Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview.
+