Job Description

Details

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Reference number

421751

Salary

81,000 - 91,000
Standard Cabinet Office rules on pay will apply to civil servants appointed on level transfer or promotion. Their salary will increase to the minimum of the SCS PB1 range or by a promotion award of up to 10% more than their current basic salary excluding all allowances (whichever is the greater). Individuals appointed on level transfer will retain their existing basic salary excluding all allowances.
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
GBP

Job grade

SCS Pay Band 1

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

HO - Capabilities and Resources Group - COO Group

Type of role

Senior leadership

Strategy

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

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Location About the job Benefits Things you need to know Apply and further information

Location

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London

About the job

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Job summary

The Deputy Director, Business Architecture is a pivotal senior leadership role within the Home Office's Chief Operating Officer Group. Reporting to the Director of Strategy, the postholder will shape and drive the Department's future operating model, ensuring that transformation is underpinned by coherent, agile, and resilient business architecture. This role is central to delivering strategic alignment across the organisation, supporting the Home Office's mission to protect the public and keep citizens safe.


You will lead a team of approximately 25 staff and collaborate with senior leaders across strategy, policy, delivery, finance, and digital. You will also engage with external partners and cross-government stakeholders to ensure the Home Office is equipped to meet evolving public service demands.

Job description

Key responsibilities include:

The Job Holder will be expected to:

Develop and maintain the Home Office's organisational strategy, underpinned by business architecture principles, to support long-term transformation and capability development. Build and lead a business architecture function that enables strategic alignment across people, technology, infrastructure, and delivery systems. Collaborate with senior stakeholders across the Department and wider government to shape and deliver a coherent future operating model. Support the Strategy Director in advising the Executive Committee and senior leaders on transformation priorities, capability planning, and organisational design. Lead the development of tools, frameworks, and professional standards for business architecture across the Department. Work alongside colleagues in policy, analysis, and delivery to ensure strategic decisions are informed by robust assessments of impact and feasibility. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and inclusion across the Strategy Directorate and wider transformation community. Represent the Strategy Directorate in Cross-cutting programmes and fiscal planning, ensuring alignment with departmental priorities and long-term goals. Play a leading role in the Department's response to the cross-government Productive and Agile State initiative. Define and track success indicators for business architecture initiatives, including delivery milestones, stakeholder satisfaction, and measurable impact on organisational performance.

Person specification

Essential criteria

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate their knowledge, experience, capability and behavioural approach to a high standard against the following key criteria:


A proven track record of leadership in a large, complex organisation, with experience delivering transformation and organisational change. Strong strategic thinking skills, with the ability to see the big picture and translate vision into actionable plans. Demonstrated ability to lead high-performing teams and foster a collaborative, inclusive, and outcomes-focused culture. Excellent problem-solving and delivery skills, with sound judgement and the ability to manage competing priorities. Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with experience building consensus across diverse groups. Experience developing and implementing organisational strategies, operating models, or business architecture frameworks. A commitment to public service values and a passion for improving outcomes for citizens. Demonstrated experience within government or comparable public sector environments Experience in the technology sector, preferably with AI expertise or experience. A strong commitment to inclusive leadership and advancing diversity, aligned with the Civil Service Diversity & Inclusion Strategy.

Benefits

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Alongside your salary of 81,000, Home Office contributes 23,465 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.Learning and development tailored to your role An environment with flexible working options A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Things you need to know

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Selection process details

Online Application

Please follow the Job Advert instructions on the Civil Service Jobs website to apply online, no later than

23:55hrs on Friday 29th August.

Provide some basic

personal information

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A

CV -

setting out your career history, highlighting specific responsibilities and achievements that are relevant for this role, including details where budgets and numbers of people managed, relevant achievements in recent posts, together with reasons for any gaps within the last two years; A

Statement of Suitability -

(limited to 1250 words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the essential criteria in the person specification.

Diversity Monitoring -

as part of the online application process, you will be asked a number of diversity-related questions. If you do not wish to provide a declaration on any of the characteristics, you will have the option to select 'prefer not to say'. See the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy: 2022 to 2025 (HTML) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) for more information.

It is essential that in your written application you give evidence, using examples, of proven experience. These responses will be developed and discussed with candidates invited for interview. Failure to submit both a CV and Supporting Statement will mean the panel only have limited information on which to assess your application against the criteria in the person specification.







Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.




As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .



See our vetting charter .
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:


UK nationals nationals of the Republic of Ireland nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020 Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.



We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

Apply and further information

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Contact point for applicants

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Job contact :

Name : DG COO Team Email : DG-COO@homeoffice.gov.uk
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Recruitment team

Email : SCSRecruitment@homeoffice.gov.uk

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint you should contact SCSRecruitment@homeoffice.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Home Office you can contact the Civil Service Commission.


Complaints should be sent in writing to:


Civil Service Commission, Room G8, 1 Horse Guards Road, London, SW1A 2HQ.