Business Architect

Overview

In this role you will shape the future-state business architecture for a next-gen digital wealth platform. You’ll translate business objectives into capabilities, value streams, and operating models, working alongside business, product, and tech teams. You will map customer and advisor journeys, enable seamless data and service integration, and support delivery planning for a major digital transformation. This opportunity lets you influence how clients and advisors experience wealth management at scale, contributing to outcome-driven architecture and cross-functional execution.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the business architecture for the digital wealth platform
• Translate objectives into capabilities, value streams and operating model requirements
• Develop artefacts such as capability maps, value streams, process models, customer journeys, operating models and service definitions
• Maintain linkages between business requirements, capabilities, products and technology solutions
• Contribute to future-state operating model design for wealth management, private banking and advisory services
• Identify opportunities for process simplification, standardisation and digitisation
• Map end-to-end client and advisor journeys across digital channels; work with product/UX to define business requirements
• Support programme discovery, mobilisation and delivery planning; conduct impact assessments and transformation planning
• Engage stakeholders and facilitate workshops; align architecture outputs across groups
• Collaborate with Enterprise, Solution and Data Architects to ensure requirements are reflected in designs and integrations

Key requirements

• Experience as a Business Architect or Senior Business Analyst in financial services transformation programmes
• Strong understanding of business architecture methods and artefacts
• Experience developing business capabilities, value streams, target operating models, customer journeys and transformation roadmaps
• Experience supporting digital platform implementations or business transformations
• Ability to connect business objectives with practical delivery requirements
• Strong stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills
• Experience working across business, product and technology teams

• Stakeholder management
• Workshop facilitation
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Business architecture methods and artefacts
• Capability maps
• Value streams

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