Business Architect

Assystem are looking for a Business Architect to join us in Leiston, Suffolk, supporting one of our major infrastructure projects. The role will focus on coordinating site connectivity initiatives across multiple construction and operation workstreams, and the successful candidate will have experience working alongside facilities management, site operations and construction delivery teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary interface between site operations, Digital & IT, suppliers and programme delivery teams.
• Support the mobilisation of connectivity services into new buildings, compounds and operational areas.
• Engage with facilities, construction, logistics and contractor teams to understand site requirements and constraints.
• Ensure appropriate governance, assurance and approval activities are completed.
• Support investment cases, project documentation and programme reporting where required.
• Coordinate supplier activities and ensure delivery commitments are understood and tracked.
• Escalate blockers and delivery risks proactively.
• Maintain stakeholder alignment across operational and project teams.
• Support operational transition and handover activities for connectivity services.

Experience:

• Experience coordinating complex infrastructure, facilities, telecommunications, networking, or connectivity projects.
• Experience with physical hardware fit design, planning, procurement, and installation for the above activities
• Experience working on large site mobilisation programmes
• Experience working alongside:
  • Facilities Management teams
  • Site Operations teams
  • Construction delivery teams
  • Network and telecommunications engineers
  • Infrastructure or IT operations teams
  • Internet, and Telephony Service providers and contractors

Profile:

• Highly organised and proactive.
• Comfortable working on a live construction site.
• Strong at coordinating people and analysing requirements.
• Confident challenging suppliers and driving actions to completion.
• Able to build relationships quickly across operational and technical teams.
• Pragmatic, delivery-focused and comfortable dealing with ambiguity.

Additional information

🌟 Join us at Assystem and be part of a global team delivering some of the most exciting and complex engineering projects in the world. This is your chance to shape the UK’s energy future while developing your expertise in a unique environment.

Benefits include:

🏡 Hybrid Working Opportunity
🕒 Flexible working hours
🛡️ Pension scheme (8% company contribution / 4% personal contribution)
🏖️ 25 days’ paid annual leave + bank holidays + option to buy or sell days
💼 Professional fees reimbursed
💰 Employee referral scheme
🤒 Competitive Sick Pay – Support when you need it
🏥 Income Protection & 3x Salary Death-in-Service Cover
💪 Free Digital Gym Access – Expert-led fitness classes
📞 24/7 Employee Support Line – Mental health, financial & legal help

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We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.