Strategic Business Architect – Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service

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Are you passionate about shaping how organisations work and driving meaningful transformation? We are looking for a highly skilled Strategic Business Architect to support the delivery of organisational design and transformation initiatives that enable the Service to achieve its strategic objectives.

This role focuses on ensuring that change is well planned, aligned with organisational goals, and delivers real benefits. It is a unique opportunity to influence organisation-wide decision-making, strengthen business planning, and support the delivery of long-term transformation aligned with the Community Risk Management Plan.

You will work across teams to understand current processes, identify improvements, and turn plans into clear, practical actions.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading comprehensive stakeholder engagement to understand current practices, identify strengths and areas for improvement, and gather the insight needed to guide consolidation, redesign or realignment of processes and ways of working across the Service.
• Working with strategic leaders to translate organisational insight, evidence and strategic priorities into a coherent strategic vision, The Community Risk Management Plan, strategy and clearly defined target state for the Service.
• Working closely with the Project Management Office to assess and strengthen Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue’s change portfolio, including evaluating cross departmental interactions, identifying interdependencies, and supporting the development of improved governance approaches.
• Analyse organisational needs and translate them into clear, actionable requirements that inform change design, ensuring that solutions are evidence-based, strategically aligned and deliver measurable value to the Service.
• Translating strategic priorities into coherent, delivery-focused change programmes by defining the required capabilities, processes, structures and outcomes, ensuring improvements support the Service’s long-term goals.
• Provide a key role in developing and delivering the Community Risk Management Plan, ensuring that organisational design, capabilities and processes are aligned to risk based evidence and strategic intent.
• Support the Annual Delivery Planning process, ensuring that each ADP is deliverable and aligned to strategic objectives and the Community Risk Management Plan.
• Providing expert business architecture insight to senior leaders and decision-making forums, clearly communicating organisational impacts, dependencies and options to support effective strategic and operational decision-making.
• Collaborating with ICT, Digital and Data functions to ensure that technology, data and digital solutions are aligned to business capabilities and support the Service’s strategic and operational requirements.

Experience/Qualification

• Proven experience working within the public sector or similarly regulated environments