Business Architect, Wellcome
£62.4-78k
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office (Euston Road, London)
Global charitable foundation for science research
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Global charitable foundation for science research
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£62.4-78k
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office (Euston Road, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
Wellcome's mission is to support science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone.
Role
Who you are
- This role is for you if you enjoy solving complex organisational problems and turning ambiguity into clear, practical design
- You may have experience in business architecture, operating model design, transformation or organisational change
- You will be comfortable working across teams, facilitating conversations, influencing stakeholders and creating structured outputs that help people make better decisions
- You will enjoy this role if you want to work on organisation wide challenges, combine design with practical delivery, and help a mission-driven organisation improve how it operates
- Experience in business architecture, operating model design and/or transformation within a complex organisation
- Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, with experience turning complex organisational challenges into practical recommendations
- Experience developing or applying business architecture artefacts such as capability models, operating model views, value chains or organisational structures
- Experience supporting or delivering cross-functional transformation activity, working collaboratively with senior stakeholders and delivery/change teams
- Strong facilitation, communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to support effective decision-making
What the job involves
- We are building a new Business Architecture and Process capability at Wellcome, a team focused on helping the organisation work better and deliver change well
- Success in this role will have the potential to amplify the impact we have through our inspiring mission, towards a healthier future for everyone
- We are looking for a Business Architect to help shape how Wellcome operates, using business architecture, operating model design and transformation insight to turn agreed priorities into sustainable organisational change
- You will join the Business Architecture and Process team within Operations, reporting to the Head of Business Architecture and Process
- This is a newly establishing team with an organisation wide remit. Its purpose is to help Wellcome understand how the organisation works today, define how it needs to work in future, and support the changes needed to get there
- The team works closely with colleagues across multiple teams, from Operations and Strategy Development, to Organisational Planning and People
- Together, we help ensure Wellcome has the operating models, capabilities, structures, processes and ways of working needed to deliver agreed priorities effectively and sustainably
- This is an exciting opportunity to join at the start of building a new capability, with the chance to influence how Wellcome designs, organises and delivers across the organisation
- You will help Wellcome design and embed practical, sustainable operating models and ways of working that support delivery of our mission
- Combining strong analytical thinking, business architecture and transformation capability, you will assess organisational challenges, develop clear insights, shape future-state designs and support targeted transformation activity
- You will work across teams to ensure changes are well-designed, implementable and sustainably embedded
- Develop business architecture insight by analysing organisational processes, structures, systems, capabilities and ways of working to identify opportunities to improve effectiveness and efficiency
- Design future-state operating models by developing practical operating model views, capability models, value chains and organisational design artefacts that support agreed priorities
- Support targeted transformation by helping to translate future-state designs into practical action and ensuring changes lead to sustainable operating models, capabilities and ways of working
- Manage organisational complexity by identifying interdependencies, assessing impacts and supporting the sequencing and coordination of change activity
- Collaborate across Wellcome by working closely with a range of teams to align on priorities and approaches
- Embed learning and continuous improvement by capturing lessons from transformation activity and strengthening how Wellcome designs and delivers in the future
- Contract type: Permanent
Application process
- Closing date: 21 July 2026
- To apply for this role, please submit an updated CV
- Interview dates: 1st stage (w/c 3 August 2026) online/remote
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The Wellcome Trust was originally founded in 1936 to fund medical research and has since grown into the UK’s largest private scientific research fund, and one of the wealthiest charities in the world. Disbursing over £1 billion in funds a year, it has provided funding to numerous medical research projects in its focus areas of mental health, climate & health and infectious diseases. These include the Cancer Genome Project and the Ebola Emergency Initiative.
Wellcome's 2022 decision to divest itself of its shares in fossil fuels has also relieved it of a persistent source of controversy, as this was potentially hindering the credibility of its climate change research. Wellcome has since partnered with the World Economic Forum to collect data on how climate change is affecting health worldwide.
The company is also moving to adjust to a more global role. The majority of its funding has historically been allocated to UK firms, but as climate change and infectious diseases know no borders, neither does research into solutions to these problems. ln 2019 it established an office in Berlin to strengthen its scientific links in the EU and to allow it to more easily fund important research outside of the UK.
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Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Holiday – 25 days’ holiday a year plus bank holidays (and we usually close between Christmas and New Year)
- Pension (defined contribution plan) – you contribute at least 3% and we pay in 15% of your salary
- Income protection – to maintain your income if you have a prolonged illness or disability
- Life assurance – four to six times your basic salary if you’re a member of our pension plan
- Interest-free travel season ticket loan
- Private medical insurance – we pay the cover, you pay the tax (and you can pay to add dependants)
- Gym and fitness classes – free membership to on-site gym and subsidised fitness classes and treatments
- Employee assistance programme – free, independent 24/7 help and advice for work-related issues as well as problems affecting your home life
- Mental health support – our network of mental health first aiders can be a first point of contact, or help while you're receiving professional help
- Health assessments (free and voluntary) – after you’ve been here for one year, then every two years after that
- Occupational health – annual eye tests and flu jabs, as well as job-related vaccinations
- Flexible working – we make every effort to support flexible working, including flexible working hours and remote working (we respect people's different working preferences and the need for a healthy work-life balance)
- Flexi-leave scheme – you can buy or sell up to five days of your holiday entitlement a year
- Staff social club – a range of sports teams and fun events throughout the year
- Volunteering – we give you up to four days' paid leave a year to contribute to our local community
- Give As You Earn – allows you to make tax-free donations to the charities you care about
- Cycle-to-work scheme – we offer at least 25% discount on bikes and cycling equipment and we have secure cycle storage, lockers and showers
- Subsidised restaurant and cafe
- Wellcome Collection discounts – 20% off food, drink and gifts from our cafe, restaurant and shop
- Discounts through Perkbox – shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, phone insurance and gift cards
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Jeremy Farrar
(Director)Has been Director of the Wellcome Trust since 2013. Before that was Director of Oxford Clinical Research Unit, working on research and clinical trials for diseases in Vietnam.
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