Senior Business Architect

Notting Hill Genesis; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent annual leave

Generous pension

Enhanced maternity/paternity pay

Employee assistance

Health cash plan

Staff discounts

Cycle to work

Life Assurance x4

Job summary

Notting Hill Genesis is seeking an experienced Senior Business Architect in London to lead the change agenda and translate strategy into a clear, resident-focused operating model. You will shape capabilities, TOM, and design principles while building a high-performing team of architects.

The role is hybrid with 2–3 days in the office and reports to the Head of Strategic Planning and Transformation. You’ll drive governance, adoption and continuous improvement across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level, with significant experience (8+ years) shaping and delivering organisational transformation and change in a large organisation
• Proven business architecture experience in an organisation of similar size and complexity, including capability modelling, value streams and operating model design, plus experience leading and developing a team of business architects
• Significant housing sector experience, with a strong understanding of social housing operations, regulatory requirements and sector-specific challenges
• Certification or equivalent training in business/enterprise architecture, e.g. Certified Business Architect (CBA), BCS Professional Certificate in Business Architecture, TOGAF or BIZBOK
• Experience with enterprise architecture repositories and modelling tools
• Familiarity with change and delivery frameworks

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain NHG’s business capability model, defining capability taxonomies and levels to inform priorities aligned to our strategy
• Shape the Target Operating Model (TOM), linking strategy to end-to-end customer journeys, data, processes and enabling technology
• Lead value-stream mapping and options analysis across NHG, proposing pragmatic roadmaps that balance value, risk cost and time to benefit.
• Lead the design work on projects and programmes entering our transformation and change portfolio, from current-state analysis , through to the target operating model, and the change required.
• Define and steward business architecture principles and guardrails, running or contributing to design authorities, embedding NHG’s service design standards and maintaining the business architecture repository so our design knowledge stays discoverable and in-house
• Contribute to business cases and portfolio planning with capability-based impact assessments, benefits logic, success measures and dependencies
• Build, lead and coach a team of Business Architects, allocating the team against portfolio priorities and evolving methods, templates and playbooks

Job description

What You’ll Do

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Business Architect to lead the team driving forward our change agenda by turning NHG’s strategy and vision into a clear, customer-centred blueprint for how we operate. Working with leaders across the business, our Senior Business Architect will build and maintain the operating model, business capability model, value streams and design principles that guide where and how we invest in transformation. You’ll make sure our design solutions are viable, efficient and focused on better outcomes for residents, while leading and developing a team of Business Architects. This is a hybrid role, with two to three days a week in our main office, reporting to the Head of Strategic Planning and Transformation.

How You’ll Do It

• Own and maintain NHG’s business capability model, defining capability taxonomies and levels to inform priorities aligned to our strategy
• Shape the Target Operating Model (TOM), linking strategy to end-to-end customer journeys, data, processes and enabling technology
• Lead value-stream mapping and options analysis across NHG, proposing pragmatic roadmaps that balance value, risk cost and time to benefit.
• Lead the design work on projects and programmes entering our transformation and change portfolio, from current-state analysis , through to the target operating model, and the change required.
• Define and steward business architecture principles and guardrails, running or contributing to design authorities, embedding NHG’s service design standards and maintaining the business architecture repository so our design knowledge stays discoverable and in-house
• Contribute to business cases and portfolio planning with capability-based impact assessments, benefits logic, success measures and dependencies
• Build, lead and coach a team of Business Architects, allocating the team against portfolio priorities and evolving methods, templates and playbooks

The ideal candidate

We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation.

Pending confirmation of legislative changes, this role may require a qualification to demonstrate competence. If not already qualified, there may be an expectation to study towards a professional qualification.

As our Senior Business Architect, you’ll bring:

Essential

• Educated to degree level, with significant experience (8+ years) shaping and delivering organisational transformation and change in a large organisation
• Proven business architecture experience in an organisation of similar size and complexity, including capability modelling, value streams and operating model design, plus experience leading and developing a team of business architects
• Significant housing sector experience, with a strong understanding of social housing operations, regulatory requirements and sector-specific challenges

Desirable

• Certification or equivalent training in business/enterprise architecture, e.g. Certified Business Architect (CBA), BCS Professional Certificate in Business Architecture, TOGAF or BIZBOK
• Experience with enterprise architecture repositories and modelling tools
• Familiarity with change and delivery frameworks

What’s in it for you?

Once you join us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You’ll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential.

Benefits include:

• Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
• Generous pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
• Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations
• Health cash plan
• Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more
• Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Life Assurance x 4 annual salary

All About Us

Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 65,000 existing homes and we employ around 1,800 employees.

For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit:

We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments.

To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit: