At the heart of our not-for-profit organisation is a commitment and a motivation to make the future-saving experience a simple one for our members. We champion fairness and simplicity, not profit-chasing. Imagine a financial adventure where everyone's a winner, fuelled by our exceptional service and brought to life by the fantastic individuals who work for us. We're a diverse employer with a flexible, hybrid working approach, ensuring everyone gets the opportunity to come to work and be the best version of themselves.
What You’ll Be Doing
The Head of Analysis and Architecture is a senior leader responsible for setting and overseeing the organisation’s architectural strategy, ensuring initiatives align with business goals, and leading the analysis and enterprise architecture functions to deliver strategic programmes and change effectively.
- Provide strategic leadership for Analysis and Architecture functions, ensuring alignment with business objectives and the overall change portfolio.
- Define and drive best practices, standards, and processes for analysis and enterprise architecture across the organisation.
- Lead, manage, and develop Business Analysis and Architecture teams, including mentoring and resource planning.
- Oversee technology evaluation and innovation to shape future-state architecture and strategic direction.
- Ensure effective initiation, governance, and delivery of change initiatives in line with quality, scope, and timelines.
- Foster a culture of excellence, continuous improvement, and strong stakeholder engagement across the business.
- Build and maintain senior stakeholder relationships to support successful project delivery and organisational outcomes.
What We’re Looking For
- Ability to define and align architectural and analytical strategies with business goals
- Proven skills in the management of multi-disciplinary teams, influencing senior stakeholders and communicating complex technology issues and concepts in simple terms
- TOGAF certification (or similar)
- Project or programme management certifications (e.g. PRINCE2 or MSP)
- Agile certifications (e.g. Scrum Master)
What you can expect from us:
- Generous pension contributions with an employer contribution of up to 14%
- Real living wage
- Income protection, critical illness cover & death in service insurance
- Employee healthcare
- Parental and adoption leave
- Learning & development opportunities and study support
- Travel season ticket loans
- Volunteering days and charity payroll giving
- Onsite gym
- Social clubs and events
Disability Statement
People's Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to treating all our people (and all who apply for a role at People's Partnership) equally and enabling them to perform at their best and demonstrate what they have to offer. This role may support hybrid working. To make use of this arrangement, employees must have an appropriate home working environment, including a private workspace and reliable, secure high speed internet that enables them to perform their duties effectively. We are a disability committed employer, please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made to our recruitment process (application, selection assessments where relevant, and interview) to enable you to show us the best “you”.
