Business Architect
Company: Together
Role summary
Business Architect is a role at Together in Stockport, England, United Kingdom (on-site). Posted 2026-08-19. Experience level: 5-10.
- Job title
- Business Architect
- Company
- Together
- Location
- Stockport, England, United Kingdom
- Work arrangement
- on-site
- Category
- Healthcare Support
- Experience level
- 5-10
- Date posted
- 2026-08-19
You’ll love this opportunity if you enjoy bridging the gap between high-level business goals and technical execution within a fast-paced team. It’s a perfect fit for someone who thrives on designing scalable organizational structures and wants to see their strategic vision have a direct, tangible impact on the company's growth.
Job description
Company Description
Benefits of working at Together
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
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Company Description
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.
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 950 colleagues help our customers throughout the UK, backed by the power of a £8 billion loan book.
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Job Description
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.
The detail of what you'll be doing :
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 stakeholders.
Facilitate workshops and discussions to build alignment, shape decision-making and drive consensus on strategic outcomes
Ensure business initiatives are supported by the appropriate expertise, engaging business stakeholders, subject matter experts as well as data, technology and change specialists as required to inform decision-making and shape successful outcomes
Contribute to the development and maturity of the Enterprise and Business Architecture practice, including methods, standards, governance and communities of practice
Qualifications
If you feel you have a combination of the following skills and experience, then we want to hear from you!
Essential skills & experience
Significant experience of developing and delivering best practice when it comes to understanding and capturing business requirements
An experienced facilitator - able to synthesise complex business problems into actionable instructions for delivery teams
Significant Business Architecture experience within a complex organisation, ideally in a regulated environment
Proven ability to translate strategy into target operating models, capabilities and transformation roadmaps
Strong expertise in capability modelling, value stream mapping, process architecture, people architecture and connecting to other architecture domains
Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation and influencing skills, including engagement with Executive and C-suite stakeholders
Comfortable challenging constructively, navigating ambiguity and operating effectively in evolving or less mature architecture environments
Able to break down complex initiatives into deliverable outcomes, pragmatic roadmaps and actionable change plans
Passionate about both the modelling and practical application of architecture, ensuring business architecture delivers tangible business value
Delivery-focused, striking a pragmatic balance between architectural design, governance and execution
If you feel you have some of the skills mentioned above, but not all,