Business Architect - Manchester Hybrid Working

Oliver James Associates Ltd.; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading reinsurance organisation in Manchester is seeking a Business Architect to spearhead the development of business architecture strategy during a period of significant transformation. This pivotal role involves collating insights from various units, mapping out capabilities, and ensuring effective implementation of operational targets, supporting the Ambition 2030 vision.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a regulatory or insurance environment.
• Prior exposure to large complex organisations.
• Strong knowledge of business architecture frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Develop business architecture strategy to influence technology landscape.
• Support change team in shaping significant deliverables.
• Liaise with process managers to ensure traceability of models.

Skills

Business Architecture Strategy

Capability Assessments

Enterprise Thinking

Business Case Development

Governance Principles

Job description

Business Architect - Manchester Hybrid Working

Salary : £95,000

Office attendance - 3 days a week in Manchester.

Our client are a globally recognised reinsurance organisation and are going through an exciting growth period, we are looking for a Business Architect to develop business architecture strategy and target operating models.

This role will enter an exciting time with numerous large scale transformations.

Essential Experience: Experience working in a regulatory or insurance environment.

• Work under direction Lead Business Architect to develop a business architecture strategy which will support and enable our extensive growth plans, to achieve Ambition 2030 vision and which will influence the technology architecture landscape
• Work with colleagues across the business to undertake capability assessments and map out capability diagrams for required functions
• Support the change team to scope and shape significant deliverables, ensuring the team is applying strategic principles and enterprise thinking when delivering change
• Work at the initiation stage of initiatives to 'shape' new change initiatives, define business capability needs, benefit drivers and business case.
• Work with the business units to identify outcomes, targets and measures used to define the successful implementation of the target operating model
• Liaise with process Managers and Business Analyst's to ensure traceability of Target Operating Models and Business Capability Models in to Business Process Maps and Business Requirements documents.
• Work with the Lead Business Architect to embed a Business Architecture framework which will drive and apply appropriate governance, design principles and business processes
• Undertake feasibility studies to support launch of new Products, Business Models and / or Technology platforms.

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