Job Description
Business Architect – Wealth Management / Investment Management / Consulting
£125,000 per annum Plus Bonus and Benefits
Our client is a leading integrated wealth management and professional services group and are currently seeking a talented individual to join their Business Architect team in London. The team is responsible for their transformation agenda and requires an experienced and dynamic Strategy Architect to identify and develop value propositions in line with their strategic priorities. Working across multiple functions and domains, you will be someone who can easily adapt, assimilate, and extrapolate to add value. They are a market leading integrated Wealth Management firm, with ambitious growth plans. You have an opportunity to help shape the future of wealth management.
Key Responsibilities:
* Working with others in the Platform Strategy & Architecture function, based on group strategic needs, complete client, competitor & market trends analysis to identify & develop value propositions.
* Able to generate or take ideas and concepts, mature design to enable launch of new products & services to market.
* Apply data & systems thinking to OpModel transformation.
* Enable growth & cost saving opportunities through client and proposition segmentation.
* Help define front to back performance goals and metrics for the proposed designs and solutions.
* Able to quickly understand and document problem statements, value chains and OpModels using industry frameworks & standards, working high to low, including but not limited to policy, procedures and processes at whole org or division level.
* Create and maintain a repository of business architecture design collateral, including blueprints and patterns, to support a federated design community.
* Independently own design problems and high impacting incidents, front to back without support, engaging, stakeholders, SMEs, product managers, BAs, Technology Architects to achieve the required outcomes.
* Identify and define client & business requirements for change roadmaps.
* Work with the other domain architects to explore specific solutions and define the scope of the projects.
* Review prototypes, solutions, and project scope to ensure client and colleague needs will be met.
* Lead and facilitate the Design Authority forum and ensure client and colleague needs are met by proposed change and solutions.
* Provide thought leadership and oversight to Business Analysts and Service Designers, identifying value add options and solutions.
* Excellent engagement with stakeholders and able to run workshops independently and coordinate as part of a wider team.
Key Skills and Experience Required:
* Wealth and Financial Services strategy consultancy experience from reputable firms such as Bain, Booz Allen, Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey, PwC, KPMG, Deloitte, Accenture or EY.
* FS practitioner or SME level domain knowledge in Wealth and Asset Management.
* Experience working in Wealth or Asset Management or experience as a business architect in a tier one Financial Services firms more broadly.