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 you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard Manage Mentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
• You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

Why you should consider Capgemini:

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask.  When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts.  We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible.  It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future.  By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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