Head of Architecture Business Architecture/Applications/SAAS

Head of Architecture Location: London (Onsite 5 days a week)Employment Type: Permanent, £145K - £166K

Are you a business applications architect with a passion for aligning enterprise systems with business strategy? A leading logistics organisation is seeking a Head of Architecture to lead the evolution of its technology and business architecture landscape

About the Role

This is a senior leadership role at the intersection of business strategy, enterprise architecture, and operational excellence. You will define and drive a cohesive architecture vision that supports the organisation's strategic goals, future operating model, and technology roadmap.

The ideal candidate will champion business architecture as a core capability - ensuring that business processes, capabilities, and systems evolve to support scalable growth, efficiency, and transformation.

A new permanent position within the business, you will shape, recruit and lead a small but high-impact team focused on architecture and operational systems, while working closely with business and technology leaders to align on delivery and transformation priorities. This is not a back office architecture position: you'll be partnering closely with the business ensuring that their requirements are met with best in class technology solutions that deliver genuine commercial impact. The business has been through, and continues to experience, significant technical change, and this position is key to the successful adoption of the business applications delivered to the internal stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Business & Technology Strategy Alignment

• Define and evolve the business architecture - including capabilities and operating models - in line with organisational goals.
• Translate strategic objectives into actionable architecture roadmaps.
• Collaborate with business leaders to model future-state capabilities and identify areas for process, system, or structural transformation.

Strategic Technology & Architecture Leadership

• Define and own the enterprise architecture vision, ensuring alignment with business goals and future scalability.
• Serve as a key advisor to senior stakeholders, translating business strategy into actionable technology roadmaps.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as a strategic advisor to senior stakeholders, influencing priorities and investment decisions through the lens of business architecture.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment on transformation programs and enterprise initiatives.
• Ensure architecture supports compliance, business continuity, and risk management needs.

Risk, Governance & Vendor Oversight

• Ensure compliance with architecture principles, security policies, and regulatory frameworks.
• Oversee vendor relationships, ensuring alignment with technology strategy and value delivery.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Proven experience in enterprise and business architecture leadership within a complex, fast-moving environment.
• Strong capability to bridge business strategy and technology, with deep understanding of business capability mapping, operating model design, and value stream analysis.
• Expertise across integration architecture, SAAS, and modern enterprise systems.
• Confident communicator and influencer at the executive level, with a track record of shaping architecture to deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Familiar with enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, BIZBOK) and modelling tools such as ArchiMate, Sparx, or similar.
• Ideally a background in business analysis or application management, prior to establishing a substantial track record in architecture.

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.