Lead Business Architect
Hiscox
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • New Zealand
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About the role
- Develop and maintain business capability maps, value streams, and operating models that inform technology decisions.
- Ensure technology solutions support strategic objectives, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency.
- Partner with Solution Architects to validate that designs meet both functional and non-functional business requirements.
- Define and own business architecture principles, embedding them in solution design and delivery.
- Contribute to data architecture discussions, ensuring consistency in data models and integration patterns.
- Support API strategy and interoperability between business systems and platforms.
- Ensure alignment with Lloyd’s market standards and industry transformation programmes such as Blueprint Two.
- Shape target operating models for transformation programmes, ensuring alignment with Group Technology standards.
- Develop and maintain outcome-based roadmaps linked to measurable business KPIs.
- Identify capability gaps and propose technology-enabled solutions to close them.
- Provide impact analysis for major technology changes across business processes and systems.
- Lead adoption of new operating models, ensuring business readiness and stakeholder engagement.
- Provide cost-benefit analysis and input into investment decisions for transformation initiatives.
- Influence budgeting and prioritisation to ensure architectural initiatives deliver maximum business value.
- Work closely with Product Managers to ensure business capability models complement product roadmaps, enabling coherent delivery across the portfolio.
Requirements
- Strong background in business architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, BIZBOK) and enterprise modelling tools.
- Experience in data modelling, integration patterns, and API-driven architectures.
- Deep understanding of London Market processes and regulatory requirements.
- Ability to translate strategic objectives into actionable technology initiatives.
Benefits
- great employee benefits that take care of your mental and physical wellbeing
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
business architecture frameworksTOGAFBIZBOKdata modellingintegration patternsAPI-driven architecturesoperating modelsimpact analysiscost-benefit analysismeasurable business KPIs
Soft Skills
stakeholder engagementinfluencecollaborationstrategic thinkingcommunicationleadershipproblem-solvinganalytical skillsadaptabilitybusiness readiness