Job Description
This Business Architect role supports a high-profile migration policy programme, focused on the integration and migration of policies, customers, processes and capabilities within a large-scale Financial Services transformation.
The position requires a seasoned professional who can shape and maintain the business architecture, define future-state operating models, and ensure alignment between strategic objectives and delivery activities.
You will work closely with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams to provide clarity, direction and governance across a complex change landscape.
Responsibilities
- Define, maintain and continuously refine business architecture artefacts across the migration programme.
- Develop and clearly articulate current-state and target-state business operating models to support strategic decision-making.
- Map business capabilities, end-to-end processes, customer journeys and organisational impacts to inform design and delivery.
- Support the assessment of migration impacts across customers, products, servicing models and operational teams.
- Work closely with Programme Leadership, Business Analysts, Solution Architects and Change teams to ensure strong alignment between business outcomes and delivery activities.
- Facilitate workshops and stakeholder engagements to drive consensus, clarify requirements and enable effective decision-making.
- Identify business risks, dependencies and opportunities throughout the migration journey and provide recommendations to address them.
- Provide architectural governance and constructive challenge to ensure strategic consistency and coherence across workstreams.
- Support executive-level communications and decision forums with clear, concise and actionable recommendations.
- Translate strategic objectives into practical business outcomes, ensuring that proposed solutions are both feasible and value-driven.
Essential Skills
- Proven experience operating as a Business Architect within large-scale transformation programmes.
- Strong background in Financial Services, ideally in Life & Pensions, Insurance, Wealth or Investments.
- Experience supporting large migration, integration, separation, platform replacement or business transformation initiatives.
- Demonstrable experience defining target operating models, business capabilities and business architecture frameworks.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including regular engagement with senior leaders and executive stakeholders.
- Ability to influence, challenge and provide clear direction across complex delivery environments.
- Experience translating strategic objectives into practical, measurable business outcomes.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
- Previous experience supporting policy administration, customer migration or book transfer programmes.
- Experience within Life & Pensions organisations, particularly involving legacy system transformation.
- Knowledge of regulatory and operational considerations within UK Financial Services.
- Familiarity with recognised business architecture methodologies and frameworks.
- Strong, credible and confident communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Naturally influential style with the ability to establish authority through expertise and professionalism.
- Collaborative approach with strong emotional intelligence and the ability to build effective relationships.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and able to drive clarity across multiple stakeholder groups.
- Pragmatic and delivery-focused mindset, balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
- Expertise in business architecture and migration strategy, with the ability to manage diverse stakeholder interests.
Why Work Here?
You will join a major transformation programme where your expertise directly shapes strategic outcomes and long-term business capabilities.
The environment values professional credibility, constructive challenge and collaborative problem-solving, giving you the opportunity to work closely with senior stakeholders and influence key decisions.
You can expect to operate in a culture that encourages clear thinking, practical delivery and continuous improvement, while offering exposure to complex, high-impact change in the UK Financial Services sector.
Work Environment
You will work within a structured change environment alongside Programme Leadership, Business Analysts, Solution Architects and Change teams, using established business architecture frameworks and methodologies.
The setting is professional and delivery-focused, with a strong emphasis on governance, stakeholder engagement and cross-functional collaboration in a large Financial Services organisation.