Lead Business Architect

Big Red Recruitment; Stratford-upon-Avon; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is hiring a Lead Business Architect to drive strategic initiatives across finance, sales, and operations. This hybrid role involves working closely with senior leaders to transform enterprise strategy into actionable programs while collaborating with IT architects and delivery teams. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in business architecture and exceptional stakeholder engagement skills.

Benefits

Generous pension

Performance bonus

Qualifications

• Strong experience in business architecture in large matrixed environments.
• Proven ability to influence and present at executive levels.
• Experience with capability mapping and organisational design.

Responsibilities

• Translating enterprise strategy into business-aligned roadmaps.
• Leading strategic workshops with senior leaders.
• Mapping business capability models for optimisation.

Skills

Business architecture

Stakeholder engagement

Critical thinking

Job description

We’re hiring a Lead Business Architect to join a central strategy function driving major change across a complex organisation. Working closely with the executive team and senior stakeholders, you’ll play a pivotal role in turning strategy into actionable programmes that span finance, sales, customer operations, and beyond.

What you’ll be doing:

• Translating enterprise strategy into business-aligned roadmaps and initiatives.
• Shaping and prioritising complex change across a large portfolio.
• Designing and aligning target operating models (TOMs) with senior leaders.
• Mapping business capability models and identifying opportunities for optimisation and transformation.
• Partnering with IT architects and delivery leads to align enterprise-wide architecture.
• Leading strategic workshops, influencing senior leaders, and facilitating business-wide design conversations.

What sets this role apart:

• Embedded within the Strategy team, you’ll operate close to the CEO and leadership group.
• Work across multiple change domains, from digital transformation to operational restructure.
• Collaborate with a team of experienced business architects, all influencing business-wide delivery.

What we’re looking for:

• Strong experience in business architecture, ideally within a large, matrixed environment.
• Proven ability to shape strategic intent into prioritised deliverables and operating models.
• Experience with capability mapping, organisational design, or complex change roadmaps.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement skills, able to facilitate workshops and present confidently at exec level.
• A naturally curious mindset with strong critical thinking, empathy, and the ability to manage ambiguity.

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of TOGAF or similar frameworks.
• Understanding of technical architecture and how it aligns with business transformation.
• Background in insurance, financial services, or other regulated environments.

The role:

• Hybrid working, 1-2 days per week in Stratford-upon-Avon
• £80,000–£90,000 per annum (depending on experience)
• Benefits package including generous pension, bonus, and more

We are an equal opportunity recruitment company. This means we welcome applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of race, sex, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age.

We are particularly invested in Neurodiversity inclusion and offer reasonable adjustments in the interview process. Reasonable adjustments are changes that we can make in the interview process if your disability puts you at a disadvantage compared with others who are not disabled. If you would benefit from a reasonable adjustment in your interview process, please call or email one of our recruiters.