Business Architect

EMPLOYMENT TYPE - Ongoing Full time
LOCATION - ACT
AFP BAND & SALARY - Band 08 ($127,101.00 - $138,349.00)
JOB REFERENCE NUMBER - 14986
This advertisement is to fill current vacancies and create a merit list for future ongoing or non-ongoing vacancies arising over the next 12 months.
Did you know?
The mission of the Australian Federal Police is to provide dynamic and effective law enforcement to the people of Australia. It provides policing throughout Australia in relation to the prevention and detection of crimes against the Commonwealth, its laws and integrity, and community police services to the Community of the ACT.
Working for the AFP provides you with a diverse and rewarding career. Whether you immerse yourself in a position on the frontline, or provide critical operational or professional support, the work you do makes a big impact on the people of Australia.
We recognise your contribution to our workforce and offer generous remuneration and conditions including:
Six weeks (30 days) of paid annual leave per year + additional paid Christmas stand down
4 extra days of mandatory rest leave per year
18 days of paid personal leave per year
Generous superannuation of 15.4%
18 weeks paid Parental Leave for Primary Caregiver (and 11 weeks for Secondary Caregiver) + additional unpaid leave entitlements for up until 24 months from the child’s date of birth or placement
Generous salaries and incremental salary progression governed by the AFP Enterprise Agreement
Flexible and hybrid working arrangement that provides work/life balance
Health & wellbeing services - with a focus on early intervention, education and prevention
Access to ongoing training and professional development opportunities
What is the role?
CIO Command provides critical integrated, secure and effective information and communications systems and services to the AFP.
CIO Command supports the management of the AFP appointees, resources and business activities.
**This work may include**:
Ensuring outputs are achieved within the strategic direction of the AFP;
Developing team members and fulfilling a guiding, mentoring and advisory role;
Leading a range of corporate support tasks;
Providing and maintaining secure and effective information systems and networks (nationally and internationally) to deliver information at the right time and in the right format to serve operational and management requirements;
Supplying advice, services, and work-products to business areas seeking to improve or enhance their business processes;
Maintaining information management standards that meet government requirements; and
Maintaining currency in information technology processes and technical knowledge through ongoing professional development
AFP appointees contribute to the achievement of outcomes in accordance with the regulatory framework, the AFP Code of Conduct and the AFP Governance Instruments. It is expected that the successful applicant will deliver on the core responsibilities and meet any requirements of the position as outlined below.
The Enterprise Architect role is responsible for the creation and maintenance of models that describe the AFP's future state and enables its evolution. This typically involves the interpretation of business goals and drivers; the translation of business strategy and objectives into target architectures; the strategic assessment of current capabilities; the identification of required changes in capabilities; and the description of relationships between people, organisation, service, process, data, information, technology and the external environment.
The CIO Command Enterprise Architecture team is a major point of contact within CIO Command for AFP business areas when they are considering new opportunities.
What will you do?
**As a Business Architect you will**:
Engage with executive level stakeholders to understand their vision, define strategies and solutions, and undertake business architecture activities;
Work with the Principal Architect to deliver business strategy and transformation, with IT solutions delivering a more robust enterprise, solutions-based approach to achieving the goals and requirements of the business and the AFP Technology Strategy;
Analyse complex business architecture problems and developing intent outcome maps, strategies, and road maps;
Work with and across the AFP architecture domains to ensure strong alignment and collaboration;
Develop conceptual designs;
Support Commands through their development of business cases for technology investment;
Provide knowledge/skills transfer to the community of practice.
SFIA Skill Band 8
BSMO (Business Modelling) 4
BPRE (Business process improvement) 5
ITSP (Strategic Planning) 5
TEC (Specialist Advice) monitoring 5
EMRG (emerging technology monitoring) 4
SCTY (Information security) 3
REQM (Requirements definition and management) 4
INAS (Information assurance 5
UNAN (User experience analysis) 4
STPL (Enterprise and business architecture) 5
CNSL (Consultancy) 5