Business Solutions Architect (Consultant) in Guildford

As a Business Solutions Architect at Actica, you will be supporting a range of high‑profile UK public sector and defence organisations. Your work will enable them to maximise the benefit from their technology investments, and play a key role in nationally critical projects that make a real difference to people’s everyday lives.

You will use your architecture skills across consulting projects and clients to provide high‑value strategy, business analysis, technology and procurement consultancy, ensuring solutions align with business strategy and aspirations. With expertise in architectural practices across business and solution domains, you will enable large, complex businesses to plan, design and implement transformation programmes and projects, helping clients make informed decisions that bring real benefit.

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

• 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.

• Essential attributes and areas of experience for this role include:
• 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.

• Desirable attributes and areas of experience that will make you particularly suited to this role with Actica include:
• 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.

We encourage candidates who may not feel their skills precisely match the requirements of this role to apply. We require individuals with a broad skillset, so there may be other aspects of your experience that are equally important.

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.

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.

• 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