Business Architect- Wealth Management

London- (Hybrid)
X3 days on-site per week
emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm Specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector, we power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication in delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

An exciting opportunity for a Business Architect to provide end-to-end architectural support across the Wealth Management business.

The role will ensure alignment between business priorities and technology delivery, focusing on optimising operating models, driving transformation initiatives, and embedding structured architecture practices.

This role will play a key part in ensuring business models are robust, adaptable, and aligned with regulatory, client, and operational expectations.

The role:

• Design and document business models illustrating the interaction of processes, systems, and functions that underpin the delivery of wealth products and services to clients and intermediaries. Define underlying business capabilities and associated requirements.
• Assess the business impact of change and support the development of clear business and IT requirements. Ensure alignment of solutions with architectural and operational integrity.
• Communicate with key internal stakeholders to ensure clarity around the impact of change, resolve issues, and gain consensus on future state design and implementation.
• Maintain business models and architectural artefacts in a structured, accessible format. Ensure models reflect changes from regulatory updates, market evolution, business strategy, or technology advancements.
• Embed Conduct Risk principles in architectural design and process review to ensure fair and appropriate outcomes for wealth clients.
• Support governance processes including architecture reviews, standards, and delivery pipelines to ensure alignment with strategic goals. Contribute to continuous improvement of architecture tools, templates, and methodologies

Key Skills and Experience:

• Extensive experience in Wealth Management, Private Banking, or Investment Platform architecture and/or business transformation
• Strong knowledge of operating model design, process mapping, and capability modelling (e.g. BPMN, ArchiMate)
• Architecture or delivery qualifications such as TOGAF, BCS, SAFe, Prince2 or Agile delivery certifications
• Experience working across large-scale transformation or change programmes with clear understanding of IT-business alignment
• Demonstrable ability to shape and structure complex business problems and prepare business cases or roadmap proposals
• Comfortable engaging technical and non-technical audiences across all levels of the organisation
• Track record of managing multiple priorities with a high level of autonomy and attention to detail

Our people
The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle.

We pride ourselves on;

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.
• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.
• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model
• Investing in employees' growth through ongoing training and development
• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise
• Providing an transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients' most pressing business challenges, and build lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction
• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs
• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation

Interested?
At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds.

If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately, our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals that are looking to further their career and explore their full potential.

"emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin"