Business Architect, Enterprise Architecture & Design

Business Architect - Enterprise Architecture & Design, Dublin

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Date: 9 Feb 2026

Location: Dublin, IE, IE

Company: Allied Irish Bank

Location/Office Policy: Central Park, Dublin 18 with Hybrid Working (3 days in office)

• Are you interested in shaping the future of AIB and supporting the implementation of the Group’s transformation strategy?
• Are you comfortable translating strategic and complex challenges and working collaboratively across teams to define business requirements and design strategic solutions?
• Are you a self-starter looking to be part of a dynamic high-performing team?

About the Role:

This role sits within the Enterprise Architecture & Design team which leads the development and governance of the bank’s business architecture, ensuring alignment between strategic objectives, regulatory obligations, and operating models. You will be expected to collaborate with senior stakeholders to translate business vision into coherent capability maps, processes, and operating models. The team drives enterprise-wide consistency and transformation by applying TOGAF-aligned methods to guide change initiatives and optimise business performance. This role requires both technical & business expertise, analysing business strategy to design future state business architecture models which drive the data and technology architecture models. 

Key accountabilities:

• Develop business requirements that translate business strategy into business & technology blueprints, bringing end-to-end thinking to align business processes, technology, data and people.
• Collaborate effectively with group wide stakeholders to document current state “As Is” and design the target “To Be” business processes, operating model and organisation blueprints.
• Develop data led evidence to underpin design decisions
• Identify opportunities to use digital, technology & data capabilities to remove business and technology friction, cost and complexity.
• Act as a trusted advisor to programmes and tribes and actively manage design and solution issues that may arise through change lifecycle.
• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to design, promote & implement Group transformation.

What you Will Bring:

• A motivated self-starter, with a minimum of 8 years’ experience as a Senior Business Analyst / Business Architect, with exposure to different roles.
• Third level degree, preferably in a system analysis & design, technology or engineering discipline.
• TOGAF architecture qualification an advantage but not essential.
• LeanIX experience would be an advantage but not essential.
• Broad technical aptitude, with experience breaking down business requirements and working with organisation stakeholders to translate these into technical and business components and capabilities.
• Problem solving and analytical thinking to understand issues and recommend solutions.
• A proven team player, building trust with colleagues, sharing knowledge and seeking opportunities for cross functional collaboration. Experience in leading and coaching staff.

Why Work for AIB

We are committed to offering our colleagues choice and flexibility in how we work and live and our hybrid working model enables our people to balance their time between working from home and their designated office, subject to their role, the needs of our customers and business requirements.

Some of our benefits include;

• Market leading Pension Scheme
• Healthcare Scheme
• Variable Pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Family leave options
• Two volunteer days per year

Please click here for further information about AIB’s PACT – Our Commitment to You.

Key Capabilities

Technical Capabilities:

• End to End thinking - Takes a whole systems approach to analyse business issues and implements holistic solutions, ensuring that linkages between structure, people, process and technology are made.
• Business Analysis - Conducts structured analysis to translate complex banking objectives, regulatory requirements, and stakeholder needs into clear, actionable architectural insights that guide strategic decisions.
• Design Thinking - Approaches problem-solving from a human-centered perspective, understands users, and iterates through a process of observation, ideation, prototyping, and testing.
• Stakeholder Management - Cultivates and maintains business relationships, partnerships and alliances internally, externally and virtually with key stakeholders.

Behavioural Capabilities:

• Eliminates Complexity
• Vision & Purpose led

If you are not sure about your suitability based on any aspects of the role advertised, we encourage you to please contact the Recruiter for this role, Sarah Lyons, at careers@aib.ie for a conversation.

AIB is an equal opportunities employer, and we pride ourselves on being the first bank in Ireland to receive the Investors in Diversity Gold Standard accreditation from the Irish Centre for Diversity. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees. Should you have a reasonable accommodation request please email the Talent Acquisition team at careers@aib.ie

Disclaimer:

Unsolicited CV’s sent to AIB by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this position. AIB operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our recruitment partners.

Application deadline: Monday 23rd February 2026

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