Business Architect

Legal & General supports the savings, protection and retirement needs of around 14 million people, through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses.

Our Retail division helps people enjoy a more colourful retirement, both directly and through their employers, including Lifetime Mortgages, Retirement Interest Only Mortgages and financial advice on our range of lending products.

We are the UK’s number one individual life insurer, and also provide Group Protection products for employers – all helping people to plan for the unexpected. We support home buying through our Mortgage Club – the UK’s largest – and our award-winning Surveying Services team. And our fintech team finds and supports socially useful start-ups and scale-ups working in the workplace, home, insurance and wealth areas.

Joining us means helping create brighter financial futures for all our customers. 

We are seeking a talented Business Architect to provide comprehensive architecture support across our retail business, aligned with our integrated roadmap of business priorities and technology delivery. The successful candidate will ensure that architecture reviews, standards, and delivery plans are effectively produced, tracked, and managed. Additionally, the Business Architect will contribute to the evolution of methodologies, processes, tools, and techniques, maximising value in delivering effective architecture plans. This role is crucial in driving appropriate intake and delivery pipelines in alignment with our Technology Strategy architecture plans.

What you'll be doing:

• Developing and documenting business models that illustrate the interaction of processes, systems, and organisation to deliver products and services to customers and intermediaries, along with the underlying business capabilities and requirements.
• Assessing the impact of change and actively engage in developing business and IT requirements and solutions, ensuring the integrity and effectiveness of the business models are maintained.
• Communicating effectively with all stakeholders to ensure the implications of change are understood, issues are identified, and solutions are agreed upon.
• Maintaining the business model in an accessible and usable format, ensuring it is the definitive source of information about business operations and reflects changes driven by market forces, business and IT developments, or new legislation and regulation.
• Embedding the principles of Conduct Risk into daily operations to ensure good customer outcomes.
• Designing and performing all business processes and internal controls to deliver good customer outcomes and demonstrate effective management of Conduct Risk.

Who we're looking for:

• Architecture, TOGAF, Analysis, Prince2, Project management and/or Agile qualifications
• Portfolio and architecture management and analysis experience with track record of effective management & reporting
• Experience of facilitating and shaping opportunities to drive preparation of suitable business cases and Portfolio plans in line with structured business frameworks across complex geographical / functional matrix organizations.
• Proven track record of architecting business opportunities to drive portfolio plans for delivery of large, complex, change and technology initiatives with technology appreciation and awareness
• Track record of building effective relationships to ensure approved agreed delivery plans and proven background in adapting to trends and openness to new ideas
• Ensuring analysis to support business prioritisation and planning confidence across all levels with technical and non-technical audiences
• Demonstrated ability to work independently focusing on priorities, and managing a high-volume of tasks, deadlines, requirements, and decisions with strong organisational skills and attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to successfully engage and influence a broad range of individuals across various internal and external businesses and support functions

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes  
• Generous pension contribution  
• Life assurance   
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only) 
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday 
• Competitive family leave 
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice 
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online   
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.