Lead Business Architect

N Consulting Ltd; London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in London is seeking a Lead Business Architect for a 12-month FTC. You will lead the design and development of the target operating model and contribute to senior discussions. The ideal candidate will have strong finance knowledge and the ability to recognize structural issues within organizations. This role offers an opportunity to drive significant change in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Broad view of the business and understanding of strategy and processes.
• Strong finance understanding.
• Ability to recognize organizational structural issues.

Responsibilities

• Lead target operating model design.
• Develop business architecture for the assigned area.
• Contribute to senior level discussions regarding operating model.

Skills

Business architecture

Finance knowledge

Organizational structure recognition

Architectural methods application

Documentation synthesis

High-level modeling

IT initiative deployment

Job description

Role: Lead Business Architect; Location: London, UK; Duration: 12 months FTC.

Responsibilities

• Lead the target operating model design and development for a discreet operating division of the Bank
• Develop the business architecture required to deliver the agreed target operating model, for the assigned business area, based on a situational awareness of business motivations.
• Contribute to senior level discussions advising on all aspects of the operating model
• Apply a structured business architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views of the business unit
• Define the business outcomes, targets and measures used to define the successful implementation of the target operating model, including traceability through the organisation, to provide effective governance
• Maintain the target operating model, describing the primary business functions of the assigned business unit, and distinguish between customer-facing, supplier-related, business execution and business management functions
• Complete analysis of the current and target state to support the definition of the business model, capability model and transition states
• Define the strategic, core and support processes across the organisation
• Identify and describe external entities such as customers, suppliers and external systems that interact with the business
• Define the data elements shared between this business unit and other units in the enterprise, and the relationships between those data elements and processes, people, systems, and other data elements

Qualifications

• A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance
• Strong understanding of finance
• The ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies
• The ability to apply architectural principles, methods, and tools to business challenges
• The ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and drawings, and articulate their collective relevance to the organization and to high-priority business issues
• 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 either business or IT initiatives