Business Architect (Hybrid - Temp to Perm)

Our client, an established UK organisation with a national footprint and a multi-year growth and change agenda, is seeking a superb Business Architect to design the business change it will take to get there. This is the work that comes before delivery: turning strategic intent into a defined set of changes, and making sure every major investment starts from a clear problem, a clear outcome and a credible view of the value. You will take initiatives from idea to investment decision, framing the problem or opportunity, laying out the options and putting a value on the outcomes before a programme is stood up. You will author the design the organisation builds from: business capability models, current and future state assessments, target operating models spanning people, process, technology, data and governance, and the roadmaps and blueprints that tie them to the investment portfolio. You'll map end-to-end customer experiences across physical and digital channels, work as one design team with Enterprise Architecture so that business and technology change are specified together, define the benefits at the outset and track them through to post-implementation review, and run the executive workshops and decision papers that let senior leaders choose with confidence. This is a contract-to-permanent appointment: an initial contract at a day rate, converting to a permanent position for the right person, with the permanent salary agreed...