Business Architect - Edinburgh

FDM Group; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consultancy is seeking a Business Architect to support a client in the insurance sector. This role requires at least 6 years of experience in business architecture. You will guide strategic design and operational models, helping organizations achieve targeted outcomes. The position is hybrid based in Edinburgh, with an initial 12-month contract potentially leading to an extension.

Qualifications

• At least 6 years of experience in business architecture or related fields.
• Proven track record in guiding enterprise transformations.
• Strong understanding of operating models and business strategies.

Responsibilities

• Strategically guide the design and realization of business and operating models.
• Identify and guide people, processes, and technology requirements.
• Support organizational change in response to market factors.
• Create business architecture deliverables to clarify strategic intentions.
• Help leaders operationalize new and emerging technologies.

Skills

Business strategy formulation

Enterprise architecture principles

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

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FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Business Architect to work for our client within the insurance sector. This is initially a 12-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in Edinburgh.

Our client is seeking a Business Architect with at least 6 years of experience to join their team. The role holder will proactively and holistically help and guide enterprise executives through transformation and optimisation initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes, and capabilities.

The business architect’s scope of activities includes helping the organisation achieve targeted business outcomes related to growing revenue, optimising costs, and mitigating risks. They focus on developing the business strategy and business architecture of the organisation as a whole, ensuring adherence to strategic design principles and governance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Strategically guide the design and realization of business and operating models
• Identify and guide people, processes, and technology requirements to operationalize the operating models
• Support organizational change and investments in response to market/external factors and toward achieving targeted business outcomes
• Create business architecture deliverables that clarify strategic intentions, identify business outcomes, explore implications, impacts, and risks
• Help strategy and business leaders understand, apply, monetize, and operationalize existing, new, and emerging technologies to transform and optimize business and operating models, drive business growth, and organizational transformation
• Support the evolution of enterprise services and help define the strategy for the EA discipline
• Align Business Value Streams, Operations, Change, and IT