Strategic Business Architect

Strategic Business Architect Grade 7 (£44,075 – £48,226 per annum) 37 hours per week Permanent Joint Headquarters, Sherwood Lodge, Arnold, Nottingham NG5 8PP Join Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service – We’re Hiring Now! 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 • Experience operating at a strategic level, working with senior stakeholders in complex organisations • Strong background in business architecture, organisational design, or transformation. • Experience in business process modelling and implementation of business and ICT initiatives • Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts clearly • Ability to influence and challenge constructively at senior levels • Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making capabilities • Project management certification (e.g. PRINCE2) or equivalent experience • Degree in IT, Business or related discipline, or equivalent professional experience • Business Analysis qualification or equivalent experience To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification. Why Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service? • Agile Working – We are very proud to offer employees the ability to mix office working with working from home to provide flexibility to help with your work life balance. • Flexibility – We are family friendly and are open to considering different working patterns which help you provide a better service to our community while supporting your home life. We are also open to part time working. • Annual Leave - 26 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays and a Christmas concessionary day. • Health and Wellbeing – As a Service we provide a wide range of Health and Wellbeing support to all our employees which includes a membership to Bupa and a dedicated Occupational Health team who are there to support you. Also, all employees receive free access to a gym. • Blue Light Card enabling discounts on shopping and eating out • Development – You will have access to both formal and informal professional development opportunities which will help you advance your career. • Pension – Access to a public service defined benefit pension scheme. If you feel you have the skills and experience we are looking for and want to play an integral part in keeping Nottinghamshire communities safe, then we look forward to hearing from you. Further Information We are proud to be an equal opportunities’ and ‘Disability Confident’ employer, and we are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce. We welcome applications from all parts of our communities and particularly those who are currently under-represented in our workforce. We are also proud of being recognised as a ‘Gold’ employer for our Armed Forces Covenant commitments. NFRS is committed to the safeguarding and protection of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and or neglect and operates a safer recruitment process. The successful candidate will be subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service check and a Police Vetting check. Applicants must have had 3 years continuous residency in the UK to be eligible for a Police Vetting check. Please note that CVs will not be accepted in place of application forms. Closing date: 17th of July 2026 Interview date: 3rd and 6th of August 2026