Business Architect

• Location: Watford, Leavesden Park (with occasional travel to business locations)
• Job Type: Full-time
• Security Clearance: Required

A new exciting permanent opportunity has become available for a Business Architect, who will be accountable for designing and evolving assigned business capabilities. This role involves defining current operations, future needs, and shaping change initiatives to achieve desired outcomes. The Business Architect will hold design authority for assigned capability domains and ensure the long-term integrity and direction of these capabilities.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Capability Design & Target State Ownership: Define and maintain the current and target state for assigned capability domains, ensuring they have a documented, coherent, and up-to-date architecture.
• Design Authority: Act as the named Design Authority, providing architectural review and sign-off on change proposals, assessing alignment with the target state, and surfacing design conflicts and risks.
• Capability Road mapping: Translate strategic priorities into clear capability evolution plans, maintaining live roadmaps that reflect investment decisions and priorities.
• Change Alignment: Provide architectural input to business cases and change proposals, ensuring initiatives are scoped to deliver genuine capability improvement.
• Cross-Domain Integration: Ensure designs are coherent across process, data, and technology stakeholders, resolving design overlaps and conflicts in a principled and documented manner.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Design Facilitation: Facilitate design workshops and architectural sessions with senior stakeholders, translating complex concepts into clear, accessible language.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Essential Experience: Business architecture, operating model design, strategy, or enterprise transformation roles; defining capabilities and high-level process architecture; working across process, data, technology, and people; acting in a design authority or architectural review capacity; working with senior leaders on strategic and operational decision-making.
• Desirable Experience: Construction, infrastructure, or asset-intensive sectors; formal qualification in business or enterprise architecture (e.g., TOGAF, BIZBOK).
• Skills: Accomplished in business architecture and capability modelling, value stream design, strategic analysis, stakeholder engagement, systems thinking, and governance design. Competent in business case and investment analysis and identifying opportunities for innovation and automation.

Key Behaviours:

• Communicate openly, act with integrity, develop yourself and others, improve and innovate, empower your customer to succeed, and deliver performance.

Other Requirements:

• Willingness to work flexibly across the organisation, with an expectation of three days a week in Watford.

To apply for the Business Architect position, please submit your CV to be immediately considered.