Senior Business Architect

Contract Type:
Permanent, Full-Time, 35 hours

Salary:
Starting from £78,544 per annum (London weighted salary) or £68,571 per annum (Regional salary), dependant on experience

Grade: 12

Reporting Office:
London, Stratford or Manchester, Trafford

Persona:
Agile Worker: 20% - 40% of contractual hours to be worked from reporting office/working location (hybrid working)

Closing Date: 23 rd August 2026 at 11pm

Interview Dates:
Interviews will take place on 1 st September

Benefits include:
Excellent pension plan (up to 6% double contribution), 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays, Westfield Health Cash Plan, non-contributory life assurance, up to 21 hours volunteering paid days, lifestyle benefits, Employee Assistance Programme and many more …

Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.

With effect from February 2026, L&Q reserve the right to not shortlist applications from candidates with 3 or more unsuccessful applications within the last 24 months.

We have recently established a new Business Design and Architecture team at L&Q, which forms a core part of our Group Transformation and Change team. This new function provides critical support and expertise to our multi year, multi million pound investment in transforming L&Q. Our transformation and change portfolio spans full operating model change across the Group. It’s service design led, and will deliver transformation to ways of working, process, team structures, systems, data and reporting, enabling organisational performance, efficiency and agility, and setting L&Q up well for the future.

A key part of our new Business Design and Architecture team is a dedicated Business Architecture practice. This team will provide full architectural capability across all disciplines, supported by discipline experts in these spaces; process, people, technology, data and information. The team will focus on ensuring that our as-is business architecture is understood and used as a robust baseline for change, and that our future architecture is codified to enable our organisation to be agile and efficient when change is required in future;

in effect, helping to systemise change and deliver operational excellence in all that we do as an organisation.

We are looking for a Senior Business Architect to join our new Head of Business Design and Architecture, and to begin the work to develop the new practice, which will ultimately be at least 7 architects strong, supported by a range of professional service partners to augment our internal team when needed, adding capacity and expertise across our work. This is a fantastic and exciting opportunity for someone that relishes working in the business architecture space but who also loves the prospect of forming and building high performing teams from scratch.

The role holder will work to create a strong, high performing practice, developing common approaches, methods and ways of working.

• Leading a cohort of Business Architects, and supporting them to be the best they can be. Building the team, managing performance, overseeing delivery, and developing the team to grow their experience, develop their skills and careers.

• Working with the Head of Business Design and Architecture and other leaders, developing a strong, high performing practice, creating consistent ways of working, methodologies and delivery approaches. Developing and then leading the application and continuous improvement of business architecture tools, including service patterns and business journey blueprints. Working with delivery teams to ensure these tools are fully adopted to ensure we are delivering to target outcomes and future proofing change at L&Q.

• Providing the architectural input to design and assurance outputs and assurance, ensuring solutions enable delivery of target outcomes and deliverables. Working with Business Analysts, Service Designers, Programme and Project…