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.
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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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We are Clarion - the country’s largest housing association. We provide a home to 360,000 people nationwide. We build more than 2,000 new homes a year and through Clarion Futures (our charitable foundation) we provide opportunities for our residents to thrive – supporting people into work, improving neighbourhoods and focusing on sustainability.
We exist because there is a housing crisis in our country. There simply aren’t enough affordable and suitable places for people to live. You might have experienced this yourself, or have friends and family who have.
We believe having a home to call your own is fundamental to being able to access the right opportunities in life. That is why our mission is to provide homes for those who need them most,
We’re all driven by this shared purpose at Clarion. We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to build a better future, and we’re relentless in pursuing it.
