Business Architect

Job title: Business Architect

About the Role As a Business Architect, you will work at the enterprise level across the Technology organization, aligning business aspirations with technology execution. Reporting to the Director of Business Architecture & Integration, you will drive immediate strategic initiatives while helping to mature and shape the long-term business architecture practice. You will collaborate closely with senior business and technology leaders to proactively guide the enterprise through transformation and optimisation initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes and capabilities - shaping operating models, supporting investment decisions, and creating clear, actionable views of the business to enable transformation. The environment is fast-paced, evolving, and full of opportunity - and you will need to thrive in ambiguity, navigate complex hierarchies, and influence without authority.

What You'll Do

• Support business strategy formulation by identifying opportunities and disruptive forces that impact Springer Nature.
• Design and communicate clear business and operating models that enable strategic execution
• Identify and guide people, processes, and technology requirements to operationalise the operating models
• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to design and maintain business architecture models that align strategic goals with revenue growth, cost optimisation and risk mitigation initiatives
• Clarify strategic intentions, identify business outcomes, explore implications, impacts, and risks for our key strategic and transformation initiatives
• Analyse business capabilities, processes, and organisational structures to identify opportunities for transformation and improved performance across functions
• Support the planning and execution of strategic initiatives by translating business strategies into actionable architectural blueprints, roadmaps, and investment priorities.
• Guide and support prioritisation of initiatives, investments, and capability evolution
• Support organisational change by helping stakeholders understand strategic goals, impacts, and transformation pathways.
• Facilitate collaboration across cross-functional teams, driving shared understanding and customer-centric design.
• Act as an ambassador for business architecture best practices within the organisation.
• Help evolve the BA&I team's role and contribution to broader transformation initiatives.

What We're Looking For

• Experience delivering enterprise-level transformation and robust business architecture capabilities
• Ability to partner with senior business and technology leaders to drive strategy-to-execution
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, and collaboration across cross-functional teams
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and complex hierarchies, with influence without formal authority
• Knowledge of operating models, capabilities, roadmaps, investment prioritization, and change management
• Customer-centric design mindset with a focus on measurable business value
• Passion for driving strategic change and tangible outcomes across revenue, cost, and risk