Business Architect

• Based on site in Cheadle (SK8 3GW
  ) - Monday to Friday
• 26 days holiday, and a day off for your birthday (increasing with service to 30 days), plus bank holidays
• Free access to company holiday homes
• Buy & sell holidays
• Discretionary annual bonus plus an additional Shared Reward Bonus
• Life assurance and Critical illness cover
• Travel season ticket loans and Ride to work scheme
• Free local gym access
• Local bar / restaurant discounts

We’re Together. For over 50 years, we’ve helped thousands of people, businesses and professionals unlock their property ambitions with our common-sense approach to mortgages and secured loans.

• Based on site in Cheadle (SK8 3GW
  ) - Monday to Friday
• 26 days holiday, and a day off for your birthday (increasing with service to 30 days), plus bank holidays
• Free access to company holiday homes
• Buy & sell holidays
• Discretionary annual bonus plus an additional Shared Reward Bonus
• Matched pension contribution
• Health cash plan plus Private medical insurance
• Life assurance and Critical illness cover
• Travel season ticket loans and Ride to work scheme
• Free local gym access
• Local bar / restaurant discounts

• We take the time to understand our customers and our door is always open, so we can often help when other lenders can’t or won’t. Based in Cheadle, Cheshire, our 900 colleagues help our customers throughout the UK, backed by the power of a £7.8 billion loan book.

This role sits within a growing Enterprise Architecture function and has been created to help meet increasing demand across the business. As part of the AI Team, you will have the opportunity to get involved in exciting AI and automation initiatives from day one, working on programmes that are helping to shape the organisation's future. Operating at a portfolio level as the Business Architecture representative within the wider Architecture and Design team, you will play a key role in ensuring strategic priorities, transformation initiatives and emerging technologies are aligned to business outcomes.

While this is not a technical AI specialist role, it offers a unique opportunity to influence how AI and automation are adopted across the organisation through effective business architecture practices. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you will lead strategic discovery activities, capability assessments, operating model design and transformation planning, helping to answer the "so what?" behind the strategy and translating vision into target capabilities, operating models and actionable transformation roadmaps.

Day-to-day, you will assess business capabilities and organisational maturity, identify inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement, and develop structured solutions that support the transition from the current state to a future target operating model. You'll play a key role in bringing greater rigour and consistency to how change is shaped across the organisation, engaging confidently with senior leaders, including Executive and C-suite stakeholders, to influence decisions, drive alignment and support strategic decision-making.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys combining strategic thinking with hands‑on delivery in an environment where business and enterprise architecture capabilities are still evolving. You will have the chance to contribute to the ongoing expansion and maturity of the Enterprise and Business Architecture function, helping shape the practice from the ground up while gaining exposure to some of the organisation's most visible and impactful AI, automation and business transformation initiatives.

• Develop and maintain business architecture artefacts, including capability models, value streams, and target operating models aligned to strategic and change objectives
• Translate business strategy into business architecture outcomes, identifying capability gaps, investment priorities and transformation roadmaps
• Lead strategic discovery activities to understand business challenges, opportunities, risks and future‑state requirements
• Conduct stakeholder analysis and engagement across business and technology teams, including senior leadership and Executive…