Business Architect

Job Title: Business Architect

Location: London

About the Job you are considering:

The Business Architect is responsible for translating strategic objectives into business capabilities, operating models, value streams, organisational structures, and transformation roadmaps. The role acts as the bridge between business strategy, enterprise architecture, change delivery, and operational execution.

The Business Architect works with senior stakeholders to understand business priorities, identify capability gaps, assess impacts, and define the target business architecture required to achieve strategic outcomes

Hybrid working:

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Business Alignment

• Translate business strategy into actionable transformation initiatives.
• Develop business architecture artefacts supporting enterprise objectives.
• Align business priorities with change portfolios, programmes, and technology investments.
• Support executive decision-making through impact assessments and option analysis.

Business Capability Architecture

• Develop and maintain enterprise capability maps.
• Assess capability maturity and identify capability gaps.
• Define target capabilities required to support future business objectives.
• Support capability-based planning and prioritisation.

Target Operating Model (TOM)

• Define current-state and future-state operating models.
• Develop transition roadmaps from current state to target state.
• Ensure operating model changes are practical, measurable, and deliverable.
• Assess people, process, governance, technology, and data implications.

Business Process & Value Stream Design

• Analyse and optimise end-to-end business processes.
• Facilitate value stream mapping exercises.
• Identify operational inefficiencies and improvement opportunities.
• Ensure process changes align with strategic outcomes.

Stakeholder Management

• Build trusted relationships with senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Facilitate workshops and strategy sessions.
• Manage conflicting priorities and achieve consensus.
• Present recommendations to governance forums and Design Authorities.

Architecture Governance

• Ensure business architecture artefacts align with enterprise architecture standards.
• Support Architecture Review Boards and governance forums.
• Maintain traceability between strategy, capabilities, roadmaps, and delivery initiatives.
• Provide business architecture assurance across programmes.

Regulatory & Change Impact Assessment

• Assess business impacts arising from regulatory change.
• Support compliance, risk, and operational resilience initiatives.
• Produce impact assessments, business case inputs, and transformation recommendations.
• Ensure change initiatives remain aligned to regulatory obligations.

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• Significant experience as a Business Architect within large-scale transformation programmes.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management.
• Experience producing Target Operating Models (TOMs).
• Experience in business capability modelling.
• Process analysis and business design experience.
• Experience working in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.

Desirable

• Financial Services, Regulatory, Banking, Insurance, or Public Sector experience.
• Experience working alongside Enterprise, Solution, Data, and Technology Architects.
• Business transformation and organisational design experience.

Frameworks & Tools

The FCA requirements specifically reference practical application of:

• BIZBOK
• TOGAF
• Capability-Based Planning
• Business Capability Modelling
• Value Stream Mapping
• ArchiMate
• Enterprise Architecture repositories such as Orbus/ABACUS

We are a Disability Confident Employer:

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you):

• You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
  To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
• You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning