Senior Business Architect

Job Description Job Title: Business Architect Location: Hybrid – (Birmingham or London and Remote) with travel to client sites as required Permanent Our Technology Division has been trusted for over a decade to deliver critical digital and business transformation projects globally. We support organisations across the full delivery lifecycle, from defining business requirements and strategic operating models to delivering change, technology-enabled solutions, and operational excellence.Every TXP engagement follows robust solution and project governance, and we offer standardised “as a service” capabilities where appropriate.We believe architecture must be business-driven, outcome-focused, and human-centred. Our collaborative architecture practice blends skills across business, data, applications, and technology, providing the governance, tools, and support needed for meaningful impact and professional growth.The Business Architect will assist with or lead pre-sales, discovery, operating model design, and business transformation initiatives across our client portfolio. This role involves a mix of home working, office collaboration, and travel to client sites as required.You will embody our company values - CARES:Client Focus: Building trusted relationships and delivering solutions that meet and exceed client expectations.Adaptability: Navigating change with agility and supporting teams through transformation.Responsibility: Owning outcomes and ensuring delivery against contractual commitments.Excellence: Driving high standards across delivery, governance, and client engagement.Success: Celebrating achievements and fostering a culture of growth and recognition.Key Responsibilities Business Architecture & Operating Model Design

• Lead or contribute to the design of Target Operating Models (TOMs), including capabilities, processes, organisational structure, governance, skills, and supporting technology.
• Develop business architecture artefacts such as capability maps, value streams, information flows, and future-state operating models.
• Ensure alignment between business strategy, transformation objectives, and solution architectures.

Strategy & Value Delivery

• Focus on delivering client value by ensuring business solutions drive measurable outcomes.
• Engage with clients to understand their challenges, goals, and constraints, and shape strategic options that address them.
• Support the development of operational reporting strategies, including KPI frameworks, performance measures, and decision-support requirements.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with executive and senior stakeholders to shape strategies, prioritise capability changes, and define transformation roadmaps.
• Facilitate workshops, discovery sessions, and strategic design conversations.

Governance & Delivery Support

• Provide business architecture guidance during discovery, design, and delivery phases.
• Support requirement definition and ensure that technology and process solutions align with the intended business outcomes.
• Work closely with project, change, and technical teams to ensure detailed designs reflect business intent.

Pre-Sales & Internal Practice

• Support sales and marketing efforts by reviewing opportunities, shaping proposals, and differentiating our messaging.
• Contribute to the evolution of TXP’s Practice, including frameworks, methods, tools, and best practices.
• Lead or support Proof of Concept engagements for business design and process initiatives.

Skill and Experience  Business Architecture Expertise

• Strong experience designing Target Operating Models, capability frameworks, and business transformation blueprints.
• Experience defining operational reporting strategies, KPIs, and enterprise performance measurement.
• Familiarity with business architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, BIZBOK) and methods for strategic analysis.

Consulting & Delivery

• Proven experience delivering business architecture or transformation initiatives in complex environments.
• Ability to translate strategic objectives into actionable change roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of digital transformation and how technology enables business value.

Stakeholder Management

• Excellent engagement skills, including working with senior executives (CxO level) and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas simply and persuasively to both business and technical audiences.

Additional Desirable Experience

• Experience supporting or collaborating with solution, data, or enterprise architects.
• Understanding of modern reporting platforms and performance management concepts (e.g., Power BI, Fabric, advantageous but not essential).
• Experience working in consulting, public sector, or regulated industries is beneficial.

Personal Characteristics

• Purposeful and outcomes-driven, with a passion for delivering meaningful business value.
• Strong planner and communicator with excellent facilitation skills.
• Pragmatic, commercially aware, and comfortable working in ambiguity.
• Emotionally and intellectually intelligent with strong relationship-building abilities.
• Enjoys working with clients, gaining trust, and shaping solutions that help them succeed.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Relevant architecture or business analysis certifications (e.g., TOGAF, BIZBOK, Lean Six Sigma) are advantageous.

Benefits: •  25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). •  An additional day of paid leave for your birthday (or Christmas eve). •  Salary sacrifice, matched employer contributed pension (4%). •  Life assurance (3x). •  Access to an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP). • ...