Hybrid Lead Business Architect

at Hiscox

• Job title: Lead Business Architect
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, New Zealand

About the role

• Lead Business Architect ensuring technology investments align with business capabilities in London Market. Collaborate with stakeholders to define frameworks and guide transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• 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