Colleague Digital Experience Senior Business Architect

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In this role, you will act as a key contributor to shaping how HR services and digital tools come together to create a simple, consistent, and effective colleague experience. You will use analytical, architectural, and problem‑solving skills to maintain a clear view of the HR application landscape, assess how tools and processes interact, and provide insight that enables joined‑up, end‑to‑end experience design.

You will support HR journey teams by analysing usage, duplication, and improvement opportunities across the ecosystem identifying where simplification, modernisation, or emerging technologies such as AI can add meaningful value. Through structured capability mapping and business maturity assessment, you will help define what HR needs to deliver today while informing the strategic direction for the future.

You will also play a vital role in ensuring that change across HR is well understood, well governed, and aligned to an enterprise view. You will assess the impact of proposed changes on capabilities, applications, and cross‑journey dependencies, clearly outlining risks, alignment considerations, and recommendations to enable informed decision‑making. Acting as a connector across HR, you will map how capabilities and applications work together to deliver colleague experiences, identify gaps or inconsistencies, and champion opportunities to strengthen experience principles across all journeys.

Additionally, you will support horizon scanning by monitoring market, HR, and technology trends particularly developments in AI to help shape future direction and guide HR’s evolving digital and experience landscape.

• Analytical skills with the ability to simplify complex problems.
• Experience in HR, business analysis, business architecture, or experience/journey design.
• An understanding and passion for improving experiences through metrics and insight — including listening data, process analysis, and evidence‑based decision making.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to explain concepts in business‑friendly language.
• Confidence working with processes, capabilities, and application landscapes.
• An understanding of how digital tools and emerging technologies influence colleague experience.

• Exposure to enterprise or solution architecture principles.
• Experience with journey mapping, service design, or HCD.
• Familiarity with impact assessments or cross‑journey change analysis.

To collaborate with stakeholders and use data and MI to identify process optimisation opportunities for capacity creation in relevant business areas.

• Development and implementation of strategies to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of banking operations, using data‑led insights.
• Participation in projects and initiatives to improve performance and optimisation efficiency and effectiveness.
• Development of reports and presentations on performance and optimisation and communicate findings to internal senior stakeholders.
• Identification of industry trends and developments, and collaboration with stakeholders across the bank to provide recommendations for change and improvement within performance and optimisation processes.
• Development and implementation of analytics and reporting performance and optimisation to mitigate risks and maintain efficient operations.
• Identification of capacity creation in operations using data and Management Information.

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as…