BUSINESS ARCHITECT 4 MONTHS 750 - 850 p/d INSIDE IR35 HYBRID - 2 DAYS p/w: NEWPORT/TITCHFIELD/DARLINGTON Concept IT, are currently looking for a Business Architect to join one of our central government clients on a contract basis to lead the Business Architecture for programmes and projects across the organisation. In this role, you will: Understand and apply business architectural principles, techniques, and tools to business challenges. Ensure design work from projects and programmes align with strategy. Ensure business change is implemented effectively to meet strategy. Aggregate and disaggregate complex information from across your organisation. Communicate complex information about the organisation to stakeholders. SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED Business architecture frameworks, principles and techniques in your organisation. Advise and guide the organisation to inform the implementation of its strategy. Share the value of business architecture with the organisation. Produce clear multidimensional views of your organisation to support decision making. Mediate between people and mend relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels. Manage stakeholder expectations and host or moderate discussions about high risk and complexity, even within constrained timescales. Speak on behalf of and represent the community to large audiences inside and outside of government. Provide advice and recommendations to stakeholders based on your significant specialist knowledge and experience. Lead the definition of guidance and inform how the organisation approaches delivery. Make decisions characterised by medium levels of risk and complexity and recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase. Build consensus between services or independent stakeholders. Build capability in methods and tools, ensuring they are adopted consistently and used effectively. Influence stakeholders and manage relationships effectively. Build long-term strategic relationships and communicate clearly and regularly with stakeholders. Demonstrate a good understanding of business issues, events and activities, and their short to long term impact. Support defining principles, patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements. Effectively focus on outcomes rather than solutions Help to develop, maintain or update strategy in response to feedback and findings. Define strategies and policies, providing guidance to others on working in the strategic context. Evaluate current strategies to ensure business requirements are being met and exceeded where possible.