Senior Business Architect – Systems Transformation Lead

ASCO - Workforce Solutions; Aberdeen City; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

ASCO - Workforce Solutions is seeking a Senior Business Architect to lead cross-system design and business architecture activities. You will define design principles, map current and target states, and drive requirements with multidisciplinary teams to deliver aligned solutions.

You will oversee delivery planning, governance, vendor engagement and go-live readiness, ensuring consistency with group requirements and future business development.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience in business architecture across multiple systems and projects.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain programme design principles across system implementations.
• Lead process discovery, current and target state mapping, and requirements capture.
• Oversee business analysis, UX/UI design and solution development.
• Manage cross-system interfaces and sequencing with solution architects.
• Represent business architecture at design authority and ensure consistency.
• Own standards, templates, traceability and QA for business analysis.
• Lead system delivery planning, milestones, risks and change control.
• Chair delivery meetings and resolve blockers within tolerances.
• Lead requirements and design approval, vendor selection and testing.
• Oversee go-live readiness and phased implementation.
• Develop and maintain Group-wide business architecture capability.

Skills

Business architecture

Design principles

Stakeholder management

Cross-system delivery

Agile and Waterfall

TOGAF

Vendor management

Education

Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

ERP knowledge

Job description

ASCO - Workforce Solutions is seeking a Senior Business Architect to lead cross-system design and business architecture activities. You will define design principles, map current and target states, and drive requirements with multidisciplinary teams to deliver aligned solutions.

You will oversee delivery planning, governance, vendor engagement and go-live readiness, ensuring consistency with group requirements and future business development.