Join us as a Business Architect

• We'll look to you to contribute to the definition and articulation of strategic direction, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and target operating models
• You'll be collaborating with key stakeholders to shape strategic capabilities, business outcomes and investment case
• This is a chance to support the development of architectural capability across the bank, sharing knowledge, and helping embed strategy-led thinking and business design principles

What you'll do

As a Business Architect, you'll play a key role in shaping and communicating the strategic direction of the business, working closely with stakeholders to define opportunities, articulate value, and support execution.

You'll build compelling business cases and propositions to influence stakeholders and secure investment. This will include working closely with deal teams and business leaders to turn strategy into actionable initiatives, produce clear strategic documentation to support senior decisions, and lead market research to translate trends and opportunities into impactful strategic narratives.

Your other key responsibilities will include:

• Developing and shaping business strategies and operating model thinking, ensuring alignment to organisational goals
• Creating compelling storytelling and highly visual presentations to communicate complex ideas simply and effectively to senior stakeholders
• Supporting design reviews for key delivery programmes, ensuring alignment to desired business outcomes and long-term direction
• Validating solution quality, identifying architectural risks, and escalating significant findings to appropriate stakeholders
• Monitoring emerging technologies within your domain, identifying potential opportunities or risks and raising them for consideration within the architecture governance framework

The skills you'll need

To excel in this role, you'll need a strong blend of strategy, business architecture, and storytelling capability, with the ability to operate confidently in ambiguous and fast-paced environments.

You'll have proven ability to create clear, compelling strategic narratives and documentation for senior audiences. You'll bring strong experience in market research and insight synthesis, with the ability to translate trends into actionable strategies.

Furthermore, you'll need:

• Strong experience of developing high-quality, visually engaging presentations that clearly communicate key messages
• Experience of collaborative decision-making processes, partnering with business and technology colleagues to shape strategy and define outcomes
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills, with the ability to guide decision-making and align stakeholders
• Exposure to AI-driven initiatives or technology-enabled transformation is desirable, along with strong commercial awareness and an understanding of lending businesses

Hours
35

Job Posting Closing Date:
13/07/2026

Ways of Working:Remote First