Business Architect

This is a fantastic opportunity to drive our Business Architecture ways of working. You will spearhead the holistic experience across our end-to-end customer journey; and enable us to translate that experience into business and technology change. This is fundamental to our strategic direction, providing seamless experiences and enabling us to grow. 

To achieve this you'll work across teams, bringing together Customer Experience, Business Analysis and Architecture as part of our Design Centre of Excellence. 

This role fundamentally enables us to connect our strategic direction with our underlying operating model by driving out a clear understanding of our customer journeys, pain points and the potential data and technology enablers that improve outcomes and experiences. 

This is a Swindon based role with a requirement to be in the office two days a week.

The benefits

• Salary – £65,000 - £95,000 depending on experience
• Bonus scheme - on target bonus – 15%
• Pension scheme - contribute up to 5% of your salary and Openwork will match you and put in an extra 5%
• Critical illness cover
• Income protection - 1x salary
• Death in service - 4x salary
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days
• A range of other flexible benefits to include private medical insurance, dental insurance and much more.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Support design work for projects and programmes ensuring alignment with strategy.
• Communicate complex information about the organisation to stakeholders.
• Drive a clear understanding of the intersection between business ways of working and technology enablement.
• Create and maintain architectural models, target states and views embodying the key principles that describe the organisation's future state, and that enable its evolution.
• Collate a holistic view of the partnership in parallel with our wider architecture practice comprising business, data, application, Integration and hosting expertise.
• Provide insight and keep up to date with enabling technologies that can realise strategy.
• Capture and prioritise market and environmental trends, business strategies and objectives, and identify the business benefits of alternative strategies.
• Provide assurance that the correct design, delivery and where used, development processes are being followed and governance is in place.
• Support preparation of business cases, budget tracking and forecasting.
• Identifying ways of improving efficiencies in the delivery process.

• Background in fast moving project environments.
• Track record of delivering Business Architecture enabled outputs and outcomes.
• Good understanding of Business and Enterprise Architecture frameworks, such as BIZBOK and TOGAF.
• Excellent analysis skills and attention to detail.
• Strong Stakeholder management skills.
• Financial services experience highly beneficial.
• Track record in maturity Business Architecture ways of working, including governance and deliverables.
• Familiarity and use of architectural languages, such as BPMN and ArchiMate and associated architecture modelling tools, such as Archi and Orbus IServer.

We're a dynamic, fast paced, and growing business with huge ambition. This is all made possible by the brilliant people who are part of The Openwork Partnership family. We're investing heavily in our colleagues, continuously striving to give them the platform to develop personally and professionally and reach their full potential.

We’re also very proud of our culture, as one of the Best 100 Large Companies to work for in 2022. The Openwork Partnership values, and respects individuality and we are committed to building an inclusive culture and environment which truly recognises and celebrates our colleague’s individual differences and identities – just like our financial advice, for us, it’s personal. We believe everyone can make a difference and your race, religion, disability, and gender will never be a barrier. At Openwork, we have a strong ethic of care for each other where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will bring your best self to work if you are trusted to choose when, where and how you do it.