Senior Business Architect

HSBC; Chester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

HSBC in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Business Architect within the UK Change Execution team to drive enterprise architecture that links business strategy to cohesive designs. You’ll report to the Head of Business Architecture & Design and guide architecture across key change programmes.

You will translate strategy into epics and features, influence senior stakeholders, and support agile value streams to optimise delivery. This role requires strong commercial insight and leadership.

Qualifications

• Experience in business strategy, business architecture and design or transformation/technology delivery roles.
• Strong knowledge of the UK market with banking context (retail/commercial).
• Ability to translate strategy into coherent designs and capability maps.
• Experience using AI to enhance processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and apply a business architecture framework to operationalise key business outcomes using an agile value stream methodology.
• Oversee and support the execution of architecture initiatives.
• Shape operating model changes to align with change programmes and delivery roadmaps.
• Translate strategic initiatives into a coherent design.
• Identify common capabilities and convergence of value streams for delivery.
• Support Business Architecture Tooling implementation.
• Contribute to group business architecture framework development.
• Provide judgment and expertise across the area of responsibility.

Skills

Business architecture

OKRs

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

AI usage

Analytical thinking

Strategic thinking

Communication skills

Job description

If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC, and fulfil your potential - whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or an exciting new direction, we offer opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

We’re one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with a network that covers more than 50 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We’re currently seeking an experienced professional to join our UK Change Execution team in the role of Senior Business Architect. UK Change Execution is a division of the HSBC UK COO organisation that enablestransformational change in HSBC UK, guided by our strategic ambitions and delivered through an agile way of working.

You’ll play a key role acting in an Enterprise Architecture capacity. This is a leadership role in the UK Change Execution team, directly reporting to the Head of Business Architecture & Design. You will deliver the linkage from Business Strategy to cohesive designs for business plans. This is done by defining and using standard and consistent language to describe HSBC and how it operates.

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you’ll have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

In This Role You’ll

• Lead and apply a business architecture framework to help operationalise key business outcomes using an agile value stream methodology, including defining clear business objectives, OKRs, and expressing these outcomes through delivered epics and features
• Oversee and support the execution of architecture initiatives
• Understand and shape the business operating model changes to achieve the vision and work closely with the primary change programmes. This includes understanding of change roadmaps to ensure that architecture, technology, and transformation services are optimized for delivery
• Translate the key strategic initiatives into a coherent design
• Support integration of businesses and tech strategy through identification of common capabilities and convergence of key delivery value streams and optimised customer journeys
• Support Business Architecture Tooling implementation
• Contribute to group business architecture framework development
• Provide judgment and expertise across all aspects of area of responsibility

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

• A background in either Retail Banking / Wealth or Commercial Banking is recommended but must have a strong knowledge of the UK market
• Proven experience working in business strategy, business architecture and design or broader experience in Transformation or Technology delivery roles
• Ability to grasp complex business and technology problems and design solutions to address these; understanding of technical design of digital capabilities across the layers of the technology stack
• Demonstrable experience analysing the current state of an organisation, design future-state operating models, and define capability maps and value streams to ensure technology and process changes align directly with overarching business goal
• Proven experience using AI to help enhance processes
• Analytical skills to derive insight from large amounts of imperfect data and information
• Ability to take a commercial stance when evaluating architecture decisions
• Ability to influence a large and diverse set of stakeholders, including at an executive committee level

Opening up a world of opportunity.

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic background or age. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best. We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

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