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Lead Technical Recruiter - Architecture, Delivery and Product

As a Business Architect, you will work across the Home Office to align strategy, transformation, and operations, ensuring critical services keep citizens safe and the country secure. From advising on organisational design in immigration, guiding delivery in law enforcement, to supporting common standards and tooling, you will use frameworks such as Bizbok to enable structured problem-solving, intentional design, and data-driven decisions, maintaining a holistic view across departmental silos.

You will mentor colleagues, share knowledge, and foster collaboration within a supportive architecture community. The role offers full-time or flexible working, with at least 60% office presence where applicable, and welcomes applications from diverse backgrounds, with appointments made on merit through fair and open competition.

Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 31st August 2025

Transform Government with AI

Help deliver the UK government's AI vision while transforming the Home Office. Our Automation and Innovation portfolio is implementing the Government's Generative AI Framework, turning technological potential into reality.

Our work spans Border Security, Immigration, Asylum case management and Counter-Terrorism operations. Develop technology that reunites families, creates safer communities, protects vulnerable people, and improves UK travel experiences.

Public Sector Innovation at Pace

We've delivered millions in efficiency savings by automating routine tasks, allowing colleagues to focus on complex human-centred work. Our solutions create meaningful improvements in public service delivery.

Work with the Digital Innovation Lab, alongside colleagues in the Automation Centre and Data Science and Evaluation teams to:

• Build solutions improving lives nationwide
• Work with diverse AI and automation technologies
• Collaborate with technical experts
• Develop skills at the forefront of public sector innovation

Help build a future-ready Home Office where innovation delivers daily impact. In this role, you will connect business strategy with delivery, using business architecture principles to strengthen public services and national security. You will shape strategies, guide digital transformation, and create a shared language to identify gaps and opportunities. From translating policy into actionable designs to aligning business and technology, you will ensure decisions are informed, user-focused, and future-ready, simplifying complexity to deliver services that are intuitive, integrated, and resilient.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain business architecture artefacts (e.g., capability models, value streams) that clarify complex issues and guide change initiatives.
• Influence portfolio/programme delivery, shaping priorities and aligning solutions with strategic objectives.
• Collaborate with technical architects, ensuring alignment between business needs and technology roadmaps.
• Lead or support workshops on organisational design, capturing insights that inform strategy, solution development, and continuous improvement.
• Manage and update a central knowledgebase of standards, tools, and best practices, promoting consistency across teams.
• Mentor colleagues, sharing business architecture principles and methods to build internal capability.

What you will bring

• Business Architecture Frameworks: Proficiency in recognised standards (e.g., Bizbok) to model capabilities, value streams, and operating models, ensuring clarity and consistency in deliverables.
• Strategic Alignment: Ability to bridge business and IT perspectives, collaborating across departments to translate strategic objectives into cohesive plans and solutions.
• Organisational Change & Delivery: Experience guiding transformation initiatives, risk assessment, and investment decisions, using structured approaches that drive adoption and stakeholder buy-in.
• Analytical Thinking: Skilled at breaking down complex issues, spotting patterns or dependencies, and developing evidence-based recommendations that inform executive-level decisions.
• Stakeholder Management & Communication: Aptitude for presenting nuanced information to varied audiences, fostering consensus, and managing conflicting priorities or constraints.
• Leadership & Mentorship: Demonstrable success in coaching and developing junior colleagues, nurturing collaborative practices, and embedding business architecture best practices across teams.

Additional Information

This role requires SC clearance. To meet national security vetting requirements, you typically need to have been resident in the UK for at least three years. Unfortunately, we cannot offer sponsorship.

Your CV and Personal Statement will both be assessed. Your Personal Statement should clearly evidence your experience against the essential skills, using the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result). Make full use of the word count to create a comprehensive and compelling application - STAR - https://lnkd.in/gs8mx4WN

Useful support on Home Office recruitment process including Success Profiles tips video, Personal Statement tips, Video/Interview tips video - https://lnkd.in/e4rajDjU

If you're a proactive and collaborative Business Architect who’s passionate about shaping strategic capabilities, designing future-ready operating models, and enabling teams to deliver impactful digital services, we’d love tohear from you.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology and Strategy/Planning

• Industries

  Government Administration

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