Lead Business Architect

Location: Hybrid with a flexible base location

London: £70,398 to £87,998 per annum

National: £64,043 to £80,054 per annum

(in exceptional circumstances we would consider a salary of up to 10% above the top of the advertised range)

Hours: 36 hours per week – flexible options considered

Contract Type: Permanent

This is a great opportunity to join our team, Employer of the Year Housing Heroes awards 2025 and Winner 2026 Inspiring Places to Work™ UK & Ireland

Are you passionate about shaping how organisations operate and driving meaningful transformation?

We’re looking for an experienced Lead Business Architect to establish and lead the business architecture discipline at Clarion, playing a pivotal role in connecting strategy, operations, technology and customer outcomes.

This is a rare opportunity to build and embed a business architecture capability from the ground up. As Lead Business Architect, you’ll create and own a comprehensive view of Clarion's business capabilities, processes, services and value streams, providing the foundation for strategic decision-making and change delivery across the organisation. Working closely with senior leaders and architecture colleagues, you’ll translate business, customer and technology strategies into a clear target business architecture and roadmap that supports long-term success.

Acting as a trusted advisor to both executive and operational stakeholders, you’ll help to shape operating model design, identify capability gaps and ensure that change initiatives align with agreed architectural principles and standards. Collaborating as part of a wider architecture community, you’ll bring together business, data and technology perspectives to create a shared vision of how the organisation works and evolves.

We’re seeking a proven leader with strong experience of business architecture within a large and complex service environment. You’ll have successfully developed capability models, process architectures and target operating models that have influenced strategic investment and transformation decisions. Just as importantly, you’ll be able to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels, bringing people together around a common direction and translating complex concepts into practical business solutions.

You will also manage and develop a team of business architecture professionals while also providing leadership and guidance across the wider Change Delivery function. Your coaching, governance and expertise will help raise the quality and consistency of business analysis and process design activity across the organisation.

If you’re looking for an opportunity to shape a growing discipline, influence strategic change and leave a lasting impact across a leading organisation, we want to hear from you now.

With hybrid working, base locations across England and flexible working arrangements this could be the opportunity you’ve been looking for!

Please review the full role profile Lead Business Architect and Behaviours & Mandatory Accountabilities OD level 3 before applying.

Salaries are just the starting point. Here at Clarion, we’re dedicated to rewarding hard work and commitment, and providing benefits that support you and your lifestyle - dive in and find out more here

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Closing Date: Tuesday 17th November 2026 at midnight.

This is a hybrid role with a base location offered at one of our offices across England. Occasional travel required.

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You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy; Clarion are not able to offer visa sponsorship. You are required to reside in England or Wales for the duration of your employment.

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About Us

Clarion Housing Group formed in 2016, following the merger between two of the country’s largest housing associations, Affinity Sutton and Circle Housing Group. With over 125,000 homes we use our strength and scale to create opportunities that change peoples’ lives.

We are also one of the biggest housebuilders in the country and are set to build 50,000 high quality homes of all tenures during the next ten years, as we remain committed to helping to tackle the housing shortage and to prioritising affordable homes.

In addition to new homes, we transform existing communities through sustained regeneration, helping people to access employment and training opportunities and giving young people a better start in life.

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