Associate Business Architect

Salary: £31,373 (National Framework) or £36,775 (London Framework – if you are London office based or homebased and live within the boundary of the M25) – There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £553 per annum for those working from home
Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week or compressed hours/job share will also be considered
Contract: Permanent
Location: Home-based with regular meetings in London, Newcastle or Leeds
Closing date: Sunday 30th June 2024 at 11.59 pm

About Us

We’re the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and work to improve health and adult social care in England.

Through the dedication of our expert team, we monitor health and social care services to provide England with a safe and compassionate care system. We recognise when services perform well, encourage improvements, and take action over poorer care where necessary.

One of our main commitments is to become a truly inclusive organisation and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To do so, we work with various networks, including the Disability Equality Network, Race Equality Network, and LGBT+ Equality Network.

We’re now looking for an Associate Business Architect to join our team on a full-time, permanent basis.

The Benefits

- 27 days’ annual leave, rising with service to 32.5 days, plus 8 Bank Holidays
- NHS pension scheme, with around a 14% employer contribution
- Free employee assistance service 24 hours a day
- Discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics and fleet cars
- Discounted gym vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Internal reward scheme where you could win a voucher or two!
- Equipment for homeworking

Why this could be a great role for you…

This is an incredible opportunity for a high-calibre individual with experience creating operating models and business design artefacts using a mix of tools to join our essential organisation.

Your expertise will help shape innovative solutions that ensure we can continue to improve the quality of support provided to those most in need, ensuring safe, effective and compassionate care.

What’s more, we’ll support you to enhance your skills in Business Architecture as you work closely with experienced managers and mentors in an open and supportive environment.

So, if you're passionate about improving health and social care in England and want to play a pivotal role in shaping our Business Architecture, apply now!

What you will bring…

To be considered as our Associate Business Architect, you will need:

- Experience creating operating models and business design artefacts using a mix of tools
- Experience applying structured thinking to business problems and documentation
- Experience working with different levels of seniority to capture key information and synthesise it into an architectural format
- Experience providing guidance and knowledge building using internal reference sources
- Experience maintaining a structured repository of information
- Experience applying change and configuration control to a complex set of documents or artefacts
- Experience advocating for Business Architecture and the knowledge library
- Experience promoting the use of methods and techniques to create artefacts

What you’ll be doing…

As our Associate Business Architect, you will address business scenarios that impact our Operating Model by applying architectural methods to advise and guide business initiatives.

Communicating Business Architecture frameworks, principles and techniques, you will promote their use for developing Business Architecture and for its content.

You will also support the Product and Service Design Team in maintaining the library of artefacts that underpin the Target Operating Model (TOM) and how they link to our strategy, organisation structure and technology architecture.

Additionally, you will:

- Promote the use of artefacts to the wider organisation
- Develop artefacts to different levels of abstraction
- Carry out design assurance assessments
- Shape business designs, solution concepts and logical requirements
- Maintain the library in a way that is accessible to the organisation
- Provide a custodian, assurance and configuration management service for our architectural artefacts

Next steps…

If you require any support or assistance with the recruitment process, please get in touch with our team or include a note in your application.

We know diverse teams allow for a more creative and productive environment and therefore encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, gender/sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability, ethnicity or sexual orientation.

So, if you’d like to join us as an Associate Business Architect, please apply using the button shown.

Other organisations may call this role Business Change Consultant, Business Process Consultant, Business Systems Architect, Solutions Architect, Business Architect, Business Improvement Architect, or Business Solutions Architect.