Lead Business Architect

Salary: National – ranging from £70,500 - £99,700 and London from £78,300 - £115,200 per annum

Would you like to be part of the Strategy & Architecture team that is responsible for the architecture that enables us to deliver the FCA’s outcomes?

The Lead Business Architect role sits within Technology - Strategy & Architecture - Enterprise Architecture Consulting, that is responsible for the overall architecture for the FCA’s business divisions. The role will lead business architecture activity on significant projects, programmes and strategic initiatives of high complexity, adding value to a wide range of business and technology stakeholders across FCA.

Engagements will include working with specific divisions and Change Delivery teams. The products & services generated must both cohere with strategic enterprise stands and meet the business customer’s needs while ensuring fit and integrity across other divisions.

What you will be doing

• Provide an approach and framework to help the business divisions identify how they want to run their business to deliver the FCA’s vision and their strategic objectives, applying the appropriate strategic analysis models and methods to deconstruct a problem to identify, clarify and articulate change

• Translate business strategy into a practical business architecture products & services that achieve FCA outcomes, aligning with supervision, policy, enforcement or market oversight, risk, or general counsel etc.)

• Provide recommendation & assurance to senior stakeholders (including SLT) and various Design Authorities to resolve cross-divisional impacts, and ensuring a standard approach and quality of design work across the organisation

• Identifying opportunities for business innovation and shape design proposals for executing them; driving innovation within the business where this delivers quick wins and business benefit and is in the boundary of the business architecture roadmap

• Own and deliver business aligned consistent architecture products, e.g. business architecture roadmap, capability model and value maps, Target Operating Models (TOMs), high level designs, impact and risk assessments in accordance with agreed standards, which detail the key components the organisation needs, the scale of the change and the transition required to achieve its target state and deliver its strategic and business goals

What you will get from the role

• The Technology division and Business Architecture community is ambitious, with a forward-thinking approach to Business Architecture. The Technology Division is focused on the professional development of colleagues throughout their careers with us. We are committed to establishing a culture of inclusion that enables diversity to underpin our ways of working

• An opportunity to work with many FCA front line teams, partner organisations and teams across our Data, Technology & Innovation division

• A chance to work in cross functional/cross divisional teams passionate about delivering value continuously

• Delivering an architecture that enables the FCA to provide real value to consumers, financial services industry, financial markets and to UK plc

Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifecycle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash.

Core benefits that you will receive as standard are

• 28 days holiday per year plus bank holidays

• Private healthcare with Bupa

• A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach age 35)

• Life assurance of eight times your basic salary

• Income protection

We support hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations.

The skills and experience you’ll have

Minimum

We are a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, should they meet the minimum criteria for a role.

• Experienced business architect either in professional services, financial services, or the public sector / regulated environment

• In-depth experience of designing target operating models for large/medium organisations and guiding business areas through the development and execution of their strategy through business architecture

• Experience with formal Architecture methodologies (e.g. TOAGF, BizBoK)

Essential

• Expertise in architectural frameworks and concepts, methodologies and approaches i.e. capability maps, value chain analysis, value creation and business models and experience in the use of enterprise architecture tooling

• Good facilitator, drawing out problems, involving and gaining commitment from the relevant stakeholders in the business with credibility and gravitas to establish trust, gaining consensus and buy-in, orchestrating engagement and collaboration with senior management

• A proactive and creative thinker, whilst grounded in the use of analysis tools and frameworks to solve problems and innovate. Able to work with imperfect information in an environment of uncertainty whilst still maintaining high standards, producing outputs that consider regulatory and organisational change requirements, whilst aligning to FCA divisional and enterprise strategies

• Provide oversight and guidance of work of other business architects

• Exceptional communication skills, able and willing to describe and negotiate complex and detailed solutions with a variety of stakeholders

About the FCA

The FCA regulates the conduct of 50,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found here.

The FCA's Values & Diversity

Our ambition is to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.

The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisations. Given this, we particularly welcome applications from women, disabled and minority ethnic candidates for our Technical Specialist Regulatory role.

Flexible working

We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we won’t judge you for asking.

Multilocation

As part of the FCA’s on-going commitment to develop our national presence, most of our vacancies are now open to working in our Edinburgh, Leeds, or London offices. This means that as part of the application process you will be able to select your preference of which office location you would like to work from.

Useful information

Applications for this role close on at midnight on Sunday 31st December 2023

This role is graded as Technical Specialist - Regulatory

Got a question?

If you are interested in learning more about the role, please contact:

For internal applicants, please contact Mandeep Ubhi Mandeep.Ubhi@fca.org.uk

For external applicants, please contact Asha Gladis Asha.Gladis@fca.org.uk

What to expect from our assessment and selection process

The assessment process consists of a competency based interview and case study.

Application support

We want to remove any possible barriers and are committed to providing a wide range of reasonable adjustments so that you can keep the focus on your conversations and be at your best.

If you have an accessibility requirement, disability, or condition that means you might require changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter to discuss this further. Our aim is to make your application as easy and comfortable as possible, and your recruiter will be happy to work with you to make any necessary arrangements where possible.