Lead Business Architect

Job details

A SFIA 6 Business Architect is a high calibre and high performing candidate for a business architectural role. The role forms part of a multi-disciplinary team focussed on developing endtoend solution design to support the Department of Health Disability and Ageing. Architects are expected to set and translate vision into tangible actions lead and inspire a connected and engaged workforce influence stakeholders resolve complex issues and deliver outstanding digital and ICT enabled capabilities.

A SFIA 6 Business Architect is expected to build and maintain effective working relationships across senior executive business owners and IT delivery areas and proactively provide support to section staff for complex work items.

Key duties and responsibilities

A SFIA 6 employee would generally be required to undertake work that is very complex or sensitive and operate under broad direction. They exercise a considerable degree of independence and perform a leadership role. Employees at this level exercise sound decision making and judgement to produce high level policy advice.

SFIA 6 employees engage in complex problem solving and issues management and may coordinate and undertake detailed or sensitive projects that impact on strategic political or operational outcomes for the agency. Employees also responsible for actively managing key stakeholder relationships within and outside the agency and may manage one or more work teams.

• Take responsibility for the achievements of own and team outcomes monitor progress and follow through to deliver quality outcomes.
  
• Recommend strategic directions for area of responsibility and consider wider agency implications when making decisions.
  
• Consider and effectively manage competing priorities and strategic directions when achieving team planning and project outcomes in line with agency goals and objectives.
  
• Implement change and manage ambiguity in the workplace.
  
• Provide a significant contribution to innovation and business improvement strategies.
  
• Work with a level of independence under broad direction with a concurrent need to resolve issues and deliver quality outcomes.
  
• Communicate and make decisions that are based on professional judgement evaluating risks and in the context of a complex and changing environment.
  
• Work with a focus on research analysis and judgement to manage complex issues.
  
• Promote the agencys business objectives through key strategic relationships with range of stakeholders.
  
• Plan and monitor work processes direct and coordinate quality assurance practices and set performance indicators.
  
• Build capability in a team environment through coaching others providing performance feedback conflict resolution and encouraging career development.
  
• Proactively undertake activities to ensure continued development of knowledge and expertise
  
• Develop business capability models value streams and operating models.
  
• Map how strategy processes people data and systems connect.
  
• Provide a holistic view of how the business actually works.
  
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of different types of business and operating models.
  
• Demonstrated experience in aspects of designing and constructing business processes functions organisational structures and business architecture artefacts (e.g. value chain patterns).
  
• Demonstrated comprehensive knowledge of facilitation and organisation change management.
  
• Demonstrated strong analytical and conceptual skills; ability to create original concepts and theories for a variety of projects.
  
• Have experience leading multi-disciplinary high-performance work teams.
  
• Have experience developing and monitoring delivery of efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems.
  
• Have some knowledge of finance accounting and valuation within government.
  

KPIs:

Performance will be measured against the above.

Reporting:

The following reporting will be required throughout the duration of the engagement:

• Weekly timesheet completion
  
• Weekly status reports; and
  
• Ad hoc reporting (as requested).
  

The seller must ensure that the Labour Hire worker performing the services during the term of this contract facilitate an effective transfer of skills and knowledge to the buyer to enable full use of services and deliverables and associated documents.

Technical skills

Have a minimum of 4 years of direct responsibility for one or more of the following: strategy formulation/translation business process management service design business transformation and business re-design change management program management. Demonstrated knowledge of existing and emerging technology capabilities and how they might apply practically to business solutions and designs.