Business Architect

Job Title:

Business Architect

Function:
Strategy, Change and In Hospital Services

Location:

Hybrid – with 2-3 days a week in any of our offices (Nottingham, Alfreton, Daresbury, Wakefield, Sheffield or London)

Contract type:
Permanent

Salary: £65,920 with the potential to rise to £77,553 over 3 years

Closing Date:
Friday 12th June, 2026

NHS Supply Chain currently has an opportunity for a Business Architect to join our team during an exciting period of transformation, working to make it easier for the NHS to put patients first and to deliver against our strategic objectives.

This role is helping NHS Supply Chain to achieve its ambitions. Having recently reshaped our 10-year Strategy and being in the middle of a multi-year operating model change, the Business Architect will have a key role to play in helping the organisation bridge the gap between strategy and execution. This is a role for a skilled Business Architect with a passion for the business side of change to influence the NHS of tomorrow.

• Collaborate with business leaders to understand strategic priorities and translate them into actionable architectural views
• Refine and iterate the capability, organisation, information, and value stream models (core domains) as well as the extended domains to reflect current and future states
• Maintain and evolve the Target Operating Model to support strategy execution and transformation planning
• Develop business architecture views and roadmaps that guide investment decisions and enable change initiatives
• Ensure alignment between business strategy, operational needs, and transformation programmes
• Facilitate conversations across business units to identify impacts, dependencies, and opportunities for optimisation and transformation
• Provide clear, structured insights that help stakeholders understand how the business delivers value and how it can evolve

• Contributing to the development of a business architecture practice in a nationally significant organisation during a time of significant organisational transformation
• Joining a dynamic strategy and architecture team with a culture of development, learning and high-performance
• Supporting the refinement of core and extended business architecture domains
• Helping to embed business architecture as a strategic discipline that informs planning and decision-making
• Influencing how the NHS delivers value to patients, staff, and communities across the country
• Collaborating with senior leaders to align strategy, operations, and transformation programmes
• Shaping models and roadmaps that guide investment, enable change, and support long-term outcomes

• Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.
• We recognise our employees' hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and colleague recognition awards.
• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays
• We are dedicated to your development, through in-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
• A focus on your well-being offering 1 day of paid well-being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%)
• Access to our Flexible Benefits Scheme, where you can choose from a variety of benefits such as Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, and additional pension contributions that suit you.
• 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community.
• Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.

• Significant experience of Business Architecture in practice and understanding (essential) and qualifications in (desirable) of relevant methodologies (eg. Business Architecture Guild & BizBOK, SAFe, TOGAF)
• Experience of Target operating model and service design
• The ability to work intensely to achieve and exceed difficult standards
• Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently, turning theory into practical deliverables that work for the…