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

• 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.

Career Development

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 technology projects. We specialise in delivering complex projects to limited timescales. Our customers include a wide range of public sector organisations such as the Home Office, the Ministry of Defence, HM Treasury, the Ministry of Justice, Police Forces, Fire Services and the NHS. We are a digital consultancy, working primarily for the UK Public Sector and Critical National Infrastructure organisations. Fundamentally our work is focused on making our clients more efficient, effective and secure. We aim to nurture a diverse workforce through inclusive working practices, promoting equality in our recruitment activities, and by employing candidates on the basis of merit. We are keen to continue to improve diversity within our organisation and the industries in which we work, and hope to employ individuals who share that view.

Working Arrangements

Hybrid working model, with an office base in Guildford, Surrey and access to our other offices in London, Swindon and Cheltenham. Typical working week might involve 2-3 days working at clients’ premises or other locations and the remainder at home or at one of our offices. Some projects may require up to 5 days per week on-site with colleagues. The practicalities of some project work means that individuals may need to stay away from home during the working week. Team-based project environment with opportunities to participate in internal initiatives.

Benefits

• 25 days of paid leave per annum plus 8 UK bank holidays
• Participation in a discretionary bonus scheme
• Participation in our stakeholder pension scheme
• Participation in cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Electric Car leasing Scheme