Business Architect

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The Business Architect plays a vital role in shaping the business processes, governance, and strategic alignment. The incumbent will be expected to align strategic decisions, goals and objectives linked to services and products. He / she creates alignment across suppliers, business partners, organizational capabilities, and IT, including organization wide initiatives. The primary focus is to develop and end to end integrated view of the enterprise using a cohesive framework and industry practices. The Business Architect works closely with IT to align business and technical requirements. He/ she must have the ability to work with employees at different levels; from senior leaders, executives, and business unit managers to outline business plans. The role plays a key part in achievement of strategic imperatives, goals, and delivery of business value.

**Job Description**:
**Responsibilities**:

- Develop a business architecture strategy based on a situational awareness of various business scenarios and insights.
- Capture the tactical and strategic enterprise wide goals that provide traceability through the organization and are mapped to metrics that provide ongoing governance.
- Describe the primary business functions of the enterprise and distinguish between customer-facing, supplier-related, business execution and business management functions.
- Define the set of strategic, core and support processes that transcend functional and organizational boundaries; identify and describe external entities such as customers, suppliers, and external systems that interact with the business; and describe which people, resources and controls are involved in the processes.
- Define the data shared across the enterprise and the relationships between those data.
- Capture the relationships among roles, capabilities and business units, the decomposition of those business units into subunits, and the internal or external management of those units.

Skills and Qualifications
- A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of strategy appreciation, processes, capabilities, technology, and governance
- The ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies, and cross-silo redundancies
- The ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and drawings, and articulate their collective relevance to the organization and to high-priority business issues
- Experience using model-based representations that can be adjusted as required to collect, aggregate, or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business
- The ability to visualize and create high-level models that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture
- Extensive experience planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives
- Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques
- Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations
- The ability to act as liaison conveying information needs of the business to IT and data constraints to the business; applies equal conveyance regarding business strategy and IT strategy, business processes and work flow automation, business initiatives and IT initiatives, and benefit realization and service delivery
- Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus
- Strong situational analysis and decision-making abilities
- Relevant Business Management Degree (Postgraduate preferably)

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology
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