Lead Business Architect

DSIT • Full-time • United Kingdom • £67.61k / year • 4h ago

Job summary

Our Lead Business Architects play a leading role in the oversight, coordination, design and development of the NCA’s key capabilities and business architecture. They use their expert knowledge and experience to direct the work addressing high level and complex business scenarios. As a Lead Business Architect, you will be working with internal and external senior stakeholders, business leads and colleagues in Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) and other enabling functions to deliver our mission and strategy. You will lead and direct the application of architectural principles, methods and tools to business scenarios. You will use architectural methods to form a view of the whole enterprise in a way that is easily understood by stakeholders, and will provide overall direction, guidance and definition of business architecture to support strategy.

This role aligns to Lead Business Architect within the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework.

If you would like to find out more about this role and the application process we will be holding a virtual opening evening via MS Teams on Wednesday 17th September 2025 at 6.00pm.

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Job description

The Enterprise Design Authority for Business (EDA-B) provides strategic, architectural and design expertise and direction for the National Crime Agency. EDA-B works with all areas of the NCA to make sure initiatives are aligned to strategies, mission priorities and relevant Operating Models as appropriate.

This role sits within the EDA-B team, which works across the Agency to develop and establish mechanisms for aligning the enterprise, technological solutions and technology architectures to the NCA's strategic direction. The role will work closely with Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) through the Architecture Community of Practice that aligns all architecture domains across the Agency. DDaT are at the heart of everything we do within the NCA, enabling the Agency to lead the UK s fight against serious and organised crime (SOC). The pace of change within the digital and tech world means we need to be agile and innovative in how we respond to threats while exploiting the opportunities this presents.

We are responsible for defining and delivering our data and technology strategy, policy and architecture, building and sustaining resilient services which are critical to our mission success. We work closely with our operational teams to help them do their job in the most effective and efficient way, understanding their challenges and combining this with emerging technologies/techniques to obtain and exploit data in innovative ways to ensure we stay ahead of the criminals who are committing some of most serious crimes and inflicting harm to our society.

Are you ready to join the team?