Business Architect - Digital

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead engagements with business stakeholders to define project concepts, clarify scope, assess impacts, and identify initial risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Capture, evaluate, challenge, and prioritise business requirements in consultation with senior management, ensuring alignment with business strategy.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external delivery partners to develop solution options and evaluate these against business and user needs.
• Prepare robust business cases and investment proposals, articulating clear, tangible benefits and identifying opportunities for maximising value.
• Act as the custodian of business requirements throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring solutions remain aligned with agreed outcomes.
• Apply knowledge of emerging trends, best practice, and innovative solutions to drive continuous improvement in business operations.
• Support business acceptance of new processes and systems, including walkthroughs, testing, and readiness activities.
• Ensure all projects adhere to the delivery assurance principles and governance standards.
• Relevant qualifications and experience in one or more business architecture disciplines: process management, business analysis, management information, or IT system development.
• Experience delivering business architecture solutions that remove duplication and improve operational efficiency.
• Familiarity with ONR licence conditions and cyber/nuclear security requirements relevant to IT-enabled change.
• Experience of formal project management approaches (e.g., PRINCE2, EDF Project Way) and tools.
• Experience of procurement activities (RFI, ITT) and evaluation processes.
• Proven experience in developing investment cases for large, complex programmes.
• Knowledge & Skills
• Essential
• Strong understanding of business architecture change within complex, evolving environments.
• Expertise in b usiness process analysis and design, including use of modelling and collaboration tools.
• Advanced stakeholder management and facilitation skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels.