Stevenage
We are looking for a Lead Business Architect to join the Group Enterprise Architecture function of MBDA. This is a great opportunity to work at the intersection of business strategy, transformation, innovation, solution development and governance to shape the future of the company. The role is a leader within the Enterprise Architecture team and a key partner to Business & Digital Excellence functions.
Salary
Circa £80,000 depending on experience.
Dynamic (hybrid) working
2 days per week on-site due to workload classification.
Security Clearance
British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship. Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. All successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS) after the offer stage, managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.
What we can offer you
- Company Bonus: up to 35% of base salary
- Monthly car allowance: £575 per calendar month
- Pension: maximum total contribution up to 14%
- Flexible working arrangements welcomed
- Enhanced parental leave: up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, with enhancements for paternity, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
- Facilities: subsidised meals and free car parking
- Private Medical Insurance: standard enrolment into company‑funded Private Medical Insurance
The opportunity
The Enterprise Architecture team combines business and technical expertise with practical experience, positioning us as trusted advisors across the company. By maintaining close alignment with the business objectives, our architected approach ensures critical improvements, transformations and technology efforts are coordinated, effective and value driven, underpinning a strong, secure, scalable and efficient foundation for the company.
Key responsibilities
- Partnering with leaders amongst Business & Digital Excellence functions
- Partnering with leaders amongst the MBDA UK business for national specific architectural activities
- Providing the data‑driven foundation for prioritising decisions on areas that maximise business value
- Ensuring key transformations, improvements and technology decisions directly support and enable the overarching goals and drivers of the business
- Eliciting clear business needs and requirements from which data, application and technology architectural choices can follow and ultimately provide clear input to solution development activities
- Supporting the development of solutions, their implementation and governance
- Managing a small team of architects
What we’re looking for from you
Technical skills
- Business architecture modelling
- Requirements elicitation, prioritisation & trade‑off
- Familiarity with architecture frameworks
- Relevant professional qualification
Soft skills
- Leadership
- Line management
- Strategic & analytical thinking
- Stakeholder management
- Communication skills
Desirable experiences
- Business analysis or architecture background
- Enterprise or IT architecture background
- Project management
- Experience working in an international setting
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