Business Architect

Job Title: Business Architect

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Alderley Edge / Haymarket

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based 

Closing date: 12th Sept 2025

At Royal London Group, we’re shaping strategy that drives impact.
As a Business Architect, you’ll be at the heart of enterprise transformation—partnering with CIOs, Heads of Change, and senior leaders to design and deliver strategic change across the Group. You’ll guide the development of operating models, align business and technology, and help unlock value from every change investment.

We’re looking for a strategic thinker and an inclusive collaborator who thrives on complexity. You’ll influence enterprise direction, shape architecture across domains, and support transformation programmes that drive growth, optimise cost, and reduce risk.

Responsibilities

Shape Strategy
Define and embed Group-wide business and IT architecture, translating strategic goals into actionable models and investment decisions.

Drive Change
Design future-ready operating models and capabilities, guiding transformation across enterprise domains and programmes.

Champion Innovation
Use design thinking and systems thinking to deliver customer-centric solutions and support continuous improvement.

Bridge Business & Tech
Align business value streams, operations, change and IT to enable agility, resilience, and speed to value.

Lead Governance & Risk
Support architecture governance, risk management and assurance, ensuring alignment with Group strategy and risk appetite.

What you’ll bring

• Proven experience in business architecture, strategy formulation, and operating model design.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills—able to influence at CIO and senior leadership level.
• Expertise in capability modelling, value streams, journey mapping and business process design.
• Familiarity with EA tools and frameworks (e.g. ArchiMate, LeanIX, Orbus).
• Commercial awareness, a growth mindset, and a passion for inclusive collaboration.
• Ability to navigate complex environments and communicate with clarity and impact.

About Royal London 

• We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.    
• Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.  
• We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits   
• Inclusion, diversity and belonging  
• We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.