Lead Business Architect

3 months ago

StratforduponAvon, United Kingdom NFU Mutual Full time

Lead Business Architect


Join our Business Architecture team in our Strategy department
Work with multiple internal functions and projects
Hybrid role with 80% homeworking and 20% in Stratford-upon-Avon

About the role

NFU Mutual is going through an exciting period of transformative change, with many interesting and forward-thinking change programmes in flight within the business such as core systems changes and multichannel reviews, this is a fantastic time to join the organisation.


 We currently have an opportunity for an experienced Lead Business Architect to join NFU Mutual, Which? Insurance Brand of the Year for the 3rd consecutive year, where you’ll work across a range of internal functions and have senior stakeholder engagement. You’ll be part of our strategy department, that works directly with the Chief Executive Officer, to help understand and deliver the strategy of the whole enterprise.


 The role of our Lead Business Architects is to align the organisation to the effective delivery of strategy. This includes the provision of professional business architecture and design authority services to business areas, change programmes and across the organisation and portfolio. This involves shaping, prioritising and governing change initiatives needed for the delivery of company and divisional strategies.


Working alongside fellow Lead Business Architects your role will focus predominately on defining and aligning Target Operating Models (TOMs), working closely with Divisions and HR.


You will also lead and shape critical strategic change elements by supporting the delivery of early thinking, to help understand overall target state implications and drive out clarity on optimum scope and sequencing.



About you

With excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, you will demonstrate a consultancy style approach to your work and interactions. You’ll be a strategic thinker, comfortable with ambiguity, confident in reviewing and understanding technical information, with the ability to translate and present this to a non-technical audience. You’ll be able to prioritise and communicate what is needed and challenge back where necessary. It is desirable that you will have a Business Architecture or Enterprise Architecture qualification e.g. TOGAF


 To be considered for this role, you must also have experience of:



Demonstrable Business Architecture deliverables in a large complex environment
Business transformation and business change life cycle leadership
Developing and working with capability models, operating models, organisational design or process re-engineering
Cross divisional or departmental roadmap development
Developing, implementing & integrating frameworks to capture and share structured thinking, options and recommendations

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.


We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.


We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

Benefits and Rewards

When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:



Salary – Up to £80,000
Annual bonus (up to 25% of salary) 
Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
28 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
Private medical insurance + options to add family members
Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
£20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs
Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies. 

Working at NFU Mutual

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us. We pride ourselves on being “a great place to work” and we're one of only 60 companies across the globe to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2024 award, and one of only 2 companies to receive the award for the ninth consecutive year. We were also named in the LinkedIn Top 25 Companies List 2021, the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK List 2023 and 2024, and were recognised as a certified UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023 and 2024.


We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future.

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