Business Architect

Job Title: Business Architect

Function: Strategy & Business Architecture

Location: Hybrid - with 2-3 days a week in any of our offices (Nottingham, Alfreton, Daresbury, Wakefield, Sheffield or London)

Contract type: Permanent

Salary: £65,920 with the potential to rise to £77,553 over 3 years

Closing Date: 15th September 2026

NHS Supply Chain currently has an opportunity for a Business Architect to join our team during an exciting period of transformation, working to make it easier for the NHS to put patients first and to deliver against our strategic objectives.

This role is helping NHS Supply Chain to achieve its ambitions. Having recently reshaped our 10-year Strategy and being in the middle of a multi-year operating model change, the Business Architect will have a key role to play in helping the organisation bridge the gap between strategy and execution. This is a role for a skilled Business Architect with a passion for the business side of change to influence the NHS of tomorrow.

Every day you will

• Collaborate with business leaders to understand strategic priorities and translate them into actionable architectural views
• Collaborate with team members and support the team through mentoring and leadership as we develop and build the practice
• Refine and iterate the capability, organisation, operating, information, and value stream models to reflect current and future states
• Develop business architecture views and roadmaps that guide investment decisions and enable change initiatives
• Ensure alignment between business strategy, operational needs, and transformation programme scope
• Facilitate conversations across business units to identify impacts, dependencies, and opportunities for optimisation and transformation
• Provide clear, structured insights that help stakeholders understand how the business delivers value and how it can evolve
• Inform and shape how a significant national organisation transforms to meet its challenges.

Why This Role is Different

This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of business architecture in the NHS by:

• Contributing to the development of a business architecture practice during a time of significantorganisational transformation
• Joining a dynamic change and architecture team with a culture of development, learning and high-performance
• Helping to embed business architecture as a strategic discipline that informs planning and decision-making
• Influencing how the NHS delivers value to patients, staff, and communities across the country
• Working closely with senior leaders and executive stakeholders to align strategy, operations, and transformation programmes, and shape enterprise-wide change
• Shaping models and roadmaps that guide investment decisions, enable change, and support long-term outcomes

What can we offer you?

We want to reward you for your passion, enthusiasm, and hard work so we offer much more than a competitive salary:

• Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.
• We recognise our employees' hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and colleague recognition awards.
• We are dedicated to your development, through in-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
• A focus on your well-being offering 1 day of paid well-being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%)
• Access to our Flexible Benefits Scheme, where you can choose from a variety of benefits such as Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, and additional pension contributions that suit you.
• 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community.
• Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.

NHS Supply Chain, who are we?

Our role is to support the NHS to save lives and improve health. We are a part of the NHS family, and our role is to source, deliver and supply healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales.

We serve every NHS Trust and operate a national network of distribution centres, managing relationships with more than a thousand suppliers and delivering more than 8,000,000 orders each year to more than 17,000 locations. Doing all of this on behalf of the NHS gives NHS staff more time to focus on their main priority of providing excellent patient care.

What skills will help you thrive in this role?

• Demonstrable experience working as a Business Architect, including responsibility for developing and maintaining business architecture artefacts such as capability models, value streams, information models and target operating models.
• Deep understanding of, and experience applying, relevant methodologies (essential), with qualifications in these methodologies being desirable, including Business Architecture Guild, SAFe, TOGAF
• Experience working closely with change and portfolio management teams to shape investment roadmaps and support transformation delivery
• Experience working with senior and executive stakeholders, communicating clearly and guiding decision making
• Experience working in complex and ambiguous environments, balancing strategic thinking with practical delivery
• The ability to work independently, turning theory into practical deliverables that work for the business and deliver value
• The ability to engage with diverse stakeholders across the NHS system, translating complex architectural concepts into clear, business-relevant insight, keeping complexity behind the scenes to enable confident, informed decision-making.

Your Inclusive Commitment

At NHS Supply Chain, we are committed to building an inclusive environment where difference is not only valued, but celebrated, giving everyone the opportunity to thrive in their career. Developing our people is key to our success, so if this role sounds like the right next step in your career but your experience doesn't match perfectly with the job advert, we encourage you to still apply.

We reserve the right to close any vacancy from further submissions when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. SCCL is a company Registered in England and Wales, with company number , to act as the management function of the NHS Supply Chain.

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