Business Architect - AI-Enabled Markets Transformation

Consult; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 112,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy delivering business and technology services to the financial services sector. We are seeking an experienced Business Architect to drive a major MSS transformation with data at the centre, delivering tangible business outcomes.

This delivery-focused role requires breaking down complex problems into actionable components, defining future-state operating models, and shaping end-to-end workflows in collaboration with technology teams.

Responsibilities

• Get to the root business problem, not just the initial stakeholder request.
• Break down complex challenges into clear, deliverable components.
• Define the target operating model and future-state business architecture.
• Create business blueprints that outline how solutions should operate.
• Partner with Technology Architects to translate business requirements into scalable solutions.
• Shape solution design from a business and user perspective.
• Prioritise and sequence capabilities, processes, data, and functionality.
• Design end-to-end business workflows, including triggers, ownership, and outcomes.
• Map data flows across the Markets business, from source to consumption.
• Identify dependencies across processes, people, data, and technology.
• Structure solutions into modular components for phased delivery.Communicate complex transformation and architecture concepts to stakeholders at all levels.
• Bridge business and technology teams to ensure alignment on outcomes.
• Challenge requirements and solutions to ensure they address the real business need.
• Maintain alignment between requirements, processes, data, and architecture throughout delivery.
• Work closely with Product, Delivery, and Engineering teams to ensure successful implementation.

Job description

Business Architect

Location: Hybrid from London

Rate: £700 Per Day Inside IR35

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm Specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector, we power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication in delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

We need an experienced Business Architect to support a major transformation in MSS business, with data at the centre. This is a delivery role. We're not looking for someone whose main output is architecture documents, capability maps or theoretical target operating models. We need someone who can take a complex, unclear business problem, work out what's really needed, break it into pieces that can be delivered, and create the business blueprint that helps technology teams build the right solution.

• Get to the root business problem, not just the initial stakeholder request.
• Break down complex challenges into clear, deliverable components.
• Define the target operating model and future-state business architecture.
• Create business blueprints that outline how solutions should operate.
• Partner with Technology Architects to translate business requirements into scalable solutions.
• Shape solution design from a business and user perspective.
• Prioritise and sequence capabilities, processes, data, and functionality.
• Design end-to-end business workflows, including triggers, ownership, and outcomes.
• Map data flows across the Markets business, from source to consumption.
• Identify dependencies across processes, people, data, and technology.
• Structure solutions into modular components for phased delivery.Communicate complex transformation and architecture concepts to stakeholders at all levels.
• Bridge business and technology teams to ensure alignment on outcomes.
• Challenge requirements and solutions to ensure they address the real business need.
• Maintain alignment between requirements, processes, data, and architecture throughout delivery.
• Work closely with Product, Delivery, and Engineering teams to ensure successful implementation.

Our people

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle.

Interested?

At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds.

If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately, our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals that are looking to further their career and explore their full potential.

“emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin”