Senior Business Architect

QBE Europe is currently recruiting an experienced Senior Business Architect to join a growing transformation team in our London office. In this role you will lead the definition and maintenance of business architecture designs, collaborating with stakeholders to ensure alignment with strategic principles and architectural designs. The role involves providing direction, guidance, and advice to Business Architects and other change personnel, as well as partnering across the organisation to drive the co-design and governance of business architecture, identify high-impact initiatives, and support the execution of long-term strategies through the creation of value for the organisation.

Your new role:

• Work with business leaders and SMEs to align business strategy to identified business capabilities through the development of business architecture models (such as value streams, service blueprints, organisational design and process architecture).
• Collaborate with Data and IT functions to ensure alignment of data and technology designs with future business design.
• Provide executive insight to shape change based on business strategy for the enterprise.
• Gain insights from customers, partners, and competitors to inform strategic decision-making.
• Shape the early stages of programmes and projects to ensure alignment with strategic direction.
• Develop and maintain business architecture roadmaps to align strategic change planning and long-term investment decisions.
• Ensure business design governance processes are followed within programmes and projects.
• Drive and foster a culture of continuous improvement, motivation, collaboration, and empowerment within the team and drive improvements in the methodology, frameworks, and processes for the Business Architecture function.
• Provide coaching and development to team members in business design skills and business knowledge.

About You:

• Experience of developing the maturity of business architecture capability, including business design governance, stakeholder engagement and communications, methodology improvements and general practice management.
• Experience communicating with executive-level stakeholder groups, advising on business, operating, and IT strategy alignment through business architecture.
• Experience working in a complex commercial environment with substantial investment in transformational change.
• Significant experience developing business designs (including business model and operating model design) through business architectures (including customer, proposition & distribution, journeys & service blueprints, organisational design, capability definition), principles, policies, and roadmaps.

Why QBE?

At QBE, we want our people to feel rewarded and inspired to perform at their best, that’s why we have created “At My Best”. It’s our connection, our way of showing we have your back. We understand that one size doesn’t fit all and that priorities can change depending on your life stage. That is why our blend of wellbeing initiatives and benefits offer flexibility to suit what matters most to you. It’s in the culture of our business, our QBE DNA, to support our people.

We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner. We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future – helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage.

QBE aims to build a workplace that is fair and inclusive because we want to attract and retain the best people to do the job, we have adopted flexible working across the company and welcome this conversation.

With more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we’re big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate, and kind.

To find out more about why you should work for QBE, visit our careers website.

At My Best - QBE Benefits:

You are more than your work – and QBE is more than a workplace, which is why we provide you with the benefits, support and flexibility to help you concentrate on living your best life personally and professionally.

• 30 days holiday a year with the option to buy up to 2 additional days.
• Flexible working - balancing work and life is important so our flexible working opportunities are open to all, this can include part-time, job share and compressed hours.
• Pension – you are automatically enrolled into the QBE pension plan, which entitles you to receive employer contributions of 10% of your basic salary.
• Private medical insurance – we fund fully comprehensive private medical cover for you and all the family.
• Family friendly policies – we offer 26 weeks leave at full pay regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation or how you become a parent.
• Short term remote work abroad - you can request up to 20 days per year to work remotely from certain locations abroad.
• Sustainable investing - we believe sustainable integration is important for long term financial, environmental, and social outcomes.
• Cycle-to-Work – benefit from regular exercise whilst making your commute greener and cheaper, select and bike and/or accessories up to the value of £5,000.

To find out more visit our Reward Page.

QBE Awards:

Some of the awards QBE are proud to have won, been a finalist for, and shortlisted for include AXCO Global Insurance Awards 2024 Winner: Network Management of the Year and Insurance Business UK 5-Star Cyber Awards.