SPM Business Architect

🧩 Shape the Future of Public Services as a Business Architect – SPM

📍 Location: Edinburgh ( Hybrid)

📆 Contract: 12 Months-Potentially Extendable

💷 Day Rate – up to 750 Outside IR35

💼 Sector: Public Sector | Social Services | Transformation

Are you an experienced Business Architect with deep expertise in IBM Social Programme Management (SPM)? This is a fantastic opportunity to play a lead role in one of the UK’s most significant social transformation programmes.

You'll work across business and technology teams to design, guide, and align SPM business architecture with enterprise strategy—bringing clarity, structure, and innovation to national services that impact lives every day.

🔧 Key Responsibilities:

Lead the development of SPM business architecture across a major transformation programme

Work with senior stakeholders and the SPM Design Lead to identify and prioritise business capability needs

Design business architecture models aligning systems, products, and operations

Ensure SPM solutions align with enterprise architecture standards and financial objectives

Evaluate project impacts and risks, and present architecture recommendations to senior leaders

Drive capability planning and integration into business strategies and delivery roadmaps

Lead initiative scoping, planning, and alignment across programme teams

Own and deliver improvements to core business processes with a hands-on approach

✅ Essential Skills & Experience:

✔️ Significant hands-on experience architecting IBM Social Programme Management (SPM) solutions, ideally within public sector settings

✔️ Proven expertise in SPM business analysis, solution design, architecture, integration, and production support

✔️ Strong track record of leading SPM-focused projects and driving programme outcomes

✔️ Experience working on enterprise-scale Agile projects/programmes

✔️ Excellent stakeholder management and the ability to communicate technical strategy to both technical and non-technical audiences

✔️ Experience collaborating across architecture domains and translating strategic plans into action

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