
Business Architect
Job Description
Join us as a Business Architect
This Business Architect role is a valuable opportunity to collaborate with a range of key business stakeholders, engaging a wide network across the bank
You’ll be defining the intentional architecture for your assigned scope, making sure that the business operating model and it’s aligned business capabilities best supports enterprise and its long-term strategy
We’ll look to you to cover motivation, process, organisation, location, business objects, business capabilities and relationships to produce the operating model
What you'll do
In this high-profile role, you’ll define, create and maintain business architect models, roadmaps and outcomes, using architecture strategies to ensure alignment to adjacent and higher-level models. You’ll be analysing our business strategy and the wider business environment, identifying the capabilities that the business must provide and support over the long term, and translating these into business and customer outcomes. And, with exceptional communication skills, you’ll gain agreement and buy-in among key stakeholders.
You’ll also be:
Coordinating business design and aligning that to platform teams across the wider teams
Influencing the development of business strategies at a team-wide level, identifying transformational opportunities for the businesses and technology areas associated with both new and existing technologies
Assessing portfolio and product backlogs, to maintain adherence to business strategies and capabilities, influencing stakeholders and authorities when needed
Using a broad and deep knowledge of financial services, other organisations and technology trends, raising opportunities and threats to encourage discussion and thinking for the future
Researching, understanding and keeping up to date with industry thinking, best practice, technology and customer trends
Managing the repository of business architecture models, business capability models, roadmaps, standards and outcomes
The skills you'll need
We’re looking for someone with experience of defining capabilities and roadmaps for complex enterprises, coupled with a background of working with business solution vendors, technology vendors and products within the market. You’ll need to have an excellent understanding of Agile and contemporary methodologies with experience of working in an Agile team.
Additionally, we’ll need you to have excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate complex concepts with colleagues up to senior leadership level.
We’ll also expect:
An understanding of industry capability frameworks including a knowledge of Agile P3M
Experience of defining, measuring and articulating business capabilities
A background of developing, syndicating and communicating architectures, designs and proposals for action
Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills
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