Business Architect

EDF Energy; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

EDF Energy is seeking a Business Architect in the Digital & IT Operations group to support the Architecture Lead in delivering strategic business architecture initiatives. You will analyse and translate business needs into operating models, facilitate workshops, and drive collaboration across departments.

The role focuses on diagnosing requirements, scoping complex programs, and ensuring alignment with strategy and governance, with potential hybrid or flexible working options in a large energy

Qualifications

• Experience delivering Business Architecture solutions that improve efficiency.
• Knowledge of business process analysis, modelling and design techniques.
• Experience of formal project management methods and IT delivery.

Responsibilities

• Support the Business Architecture Lead in formulating and delivering architecture projects.
• Diagnose, scope and manage pipelines of work within assigned area.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to define objectives, scope and risks.

Skills

Business architecture change

Process analysis

Workshop facilitation

Stakeholder management

Strategic analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Requirements elicitation

RFI/ITT experience

Financial modelling

Negotiation & influence

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

PRINCE2 certification

Tools

Modelling tools

Visio (or equivalent)

Job description

About the Role

An exciting and rewarding opportunity has arisen based at Aztec West, Bristol for a Business Architect in our Digital & IT Operations department.

The Opportunity

The Business Architect is responsible for supporting the Business Architecture Lead in formulating, directing, and the delivery of Business Architecture projects undertaken by HPC.

You will have a deploying expert business analysis skill, broad business knowledge and specialist expertise to create solutions that deliver an effective and efficient business operating model.

Pay, Benefits & Culture

In addition to a very competitive salary we offer a competitive benefits package, including a company pension scheme, and a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.

Here, we do right by each other and everyone's welcome. We're on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We'd like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.

We're a disability confident employer and we'll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.

We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That's why we support you to pursue a career that's unique to you. Because success is personal.

What you'll be doing

The Business Architecture function is delivering a range of architecture services to HPC and within this context, the Business Architect will focus on diagnosing, scoping, delivering the pipeline of work in their assigned area, keeping the Business Architecture Lead aware of progress and activities.

Knowledge & Skills

• Knowledge of successful business architecture change in complex and evolving environment.
• In depth knowledge of business process analysis and design techniques, including the use of modelling and collaborative tools.
• Strong workshop facilitation and interview skills, including negotiation, influence, mediation, and conflict management skills.
• Extensive knowledge of standard methods and techniques, with the ability to select the appropriate approach for a particular assignment.
• Strong proven strategic investigative and analytical skills using a variety of analysis techniques.
• You will identify interfaces between organisational departments and functions and integrate / align procedures and systems across functions.
• Drive collaborative working between departments to identify the integrated and best solution.
• Translate plans into meaningful objectives for people, ensuring activities are aligned and people are clear about how they personally contribute.
• Engage with relevant stakeholders as the key contact to develop the initial project concept, elaborating the primary business objectives, clarifying the scope and impacts of the proposed change and identifying the initial risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies that affect the successful outcome of the project
• Consult with senior management and other key stakeholders to capture, evaluate, challenge and prioritise business requirements and success measures
• Collaborate with 3rd party delivery partners to identify the best solution options including structured evaluation and appraisal of options that ensure user-friendly and efficient solutions
• Develop robust mandates and investment cases for business architecture projects.
• Challenge suggested benefits, translate intangible benefits into tangible benefits and identify additional benefits to maximise the extracted value of the proposed change
• Act as custodian for the business requirements through the project lifecycle to ensure consistency with the defined solution and delivery of the identified business outcomes
• Use knowledge of current and emerging trends to enable continuous business improvement that employ the latest best practice methods and best in breed technical solutions
• Support business acceptance of developed solutions, including process and system walkthrough and business acceptance testing
• Manage the projects adherence to core delivery assurance principles

Who you are

You will have relevant qualifications and experience in one or more of the Business Architecture disciplines of process management, business analysis, data and management information or IT system development.

Experience delivering Business Architecture solutions that eliminate duplication and improve efficiency of business operations.

Experience of formal project management techniques, such as Prince2, plus associated tools and processes, including planning and estimating.

Experience of Request for Information (RFI) and Invitation to Tender (ITT) activities, including the creation and use of an evaluation score card.

Excellent communication, presentation, and written skills, with relevant experience of influencing decision making of senior executives, business managers and third parties at a strategic level.

Experience of developing business cases for large complex business change programmes, including financial and numerical modelling and appraisal skills.

Prior experience working in Nuclear, asset intensive and/or Safety Critical industries.

Closing date for applications is Monday November 2nd

Interviews will be held mid to the end of November

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