Lead Business Architect (12 months FTC)

London, England, United Kingdom

7/14/2025

Overall Summary

At Close Brothers we look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. We celebrate diversity, promote inclusivity and are open to discuss flexible work options to help you balance your work and home life.

Join the Close Brothers Central Functions - IT Team as a Lead Business Architect where you will be responsible for translating strategy into target operating models utilising repeatable industry standard techniques, and also providing formal design governance, assuring any business change activity is in line with intended design.

Our ideal team member will have exceptional communication skills and the demonstrable ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organisation; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualisations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the target operating model design and development for a discreet operating division of the Bank
• Develop the business architecture required to deliver the agreed target operating model, for the assigned business area, based on a situational awareness of business motivations.
• Contribute to senior level discussions advising on all aspects of the operating model
• Apply a structured business architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views of the business unit
• Define the business outcomes, targets and measures used to define the successful implementation of the target operating model, including traceability through the organisation, to provide effective governance
• Maintain the target operating model, describing the primary business functions of the assigned business unit, and distinguish between customer-facing, supplier-related, business execution and business management functions
• Complete analysis of the current and target state to support the definition of the business model, capability model and transition states
• Define the strategic, core and support processes across the organisation
• Identify and describe external entities such as customers, suppliers and external systems that interact with the business
• Define the data elements shared between this business unit and other units in the enterprise, and the relationships between those data elements and processes, people, systems, and other data elements
  
  
  
  

WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE:

• A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance
• Strong understanding of finance
• The ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies.
• The ability to apply architectural principles, methods, and tools to business challenges
• The ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and drawings, and articulate their collective relevance to the organization and to high-priority business issues
• The ability to visualize and create high-level models that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture
• Extensive experience planning and deploying either business or IT initiatives
  
  
  
  

IT IS NOT ESSENTIAL BUT IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU:

• Have a degree education
• Industry recognised business architecture accreditations
  
  
  
  

We are an inclusive organisation and committed to ensuring our recruitment process is as accessible as possible to everyone. We will make adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. If you need the job description or application form in an alternative format or would like to discuss the recruitment process with us, please email us at [email protected] or request a call back.

About Us

At Close Brothers we support employees to balance their work life priorities and in this role you will be able to enjoy a mixture of hybrid working.

Close Brothers is a leading UK merchant banking group providing lending, deposit taking and securities trading. We employ approximately 3,000 people, principally in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Close Brothers Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250.

To find out more about Close Brothers, please visit our careers page: https://www.closebrothers.com/careers

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https://www.closebrothers.com/life-close-brothers#374017299-899295541

To find out more about our benefits:

https://www.closebrothers.com/employee-benefits

To find out more about our commitment to creating an inclusive environment:

Our Responsibility - Diversity and inclusion ¦ Close Brothers Group

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