Business Architect

We are looking for a Business Architect for a permanent role in Sandton.

POSITION INFO:

Key Performance Areas

Center of Excellence:

• Develop a business architecture strategy based on a situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations.
• Build, implement, maintain and establish a Business Architecture Center of Excellence.
• Develop, implement, maintain and establish all associated frameworks, standards, methods, processes, governance and Ways of Work for the Business Architecture capability.
• Provide tooling and training to Business Architects and Business Analysts.
• Ensure repositories are established, implemented, maintained and Ways of Work established around the use of repositories.
• Develop a Community of Practice.
• Ensure that the capability stays relevant within the context of the company and the industry.
• Ensure alignment into the broader Enterprise Architecture framework.

Value Management:

• Provide Value Stream Mapping in pre-project.
• Provide Value Chain Modelling across the portfolio of delivery within the context of the company.
• Define, implement and establish Value Generation principles across the BACoE.
• Provide and help senior business leaders vision the direction of their roadmaps.
• Offer Business roadmaps services in pre-project to ensure that all business cases have a business defined roadmap which informs delivery.
• Build, implement, maintain and establish Capability Modelling.
• Develop, implement, maintain and establish Business Process Architecture framework and standard that is rolled out, trained, supported and assured across the BACoE.
• Develop, implement, maintain and assure a suitable Reference Architecture.
• Develop, implement, maintain and assure a suitable Traceability and Reusability model.
• Enable the Interdependency Management model.
• Reporting that enables the BACoE and EPMO leadership team.
• Cost management to improve our own value generation for the BACoE.
• Continuous Improvement initiatives in line with the BACoE strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Honours Degree: Commerce or STEM fields of study (Essential)
• A master’s degree: A related field of studies (Advantageous)
• Advanced Business Analysis Diploma / Certification
• BPMN practitioner or certified process professional
• TOGAF Certified Business Architect or relevant Business Architecture certification
• BACOE (Business Architecture center of excellence trained and certified)

Professional Status

• Accreditations
• Registrations
• Legal Appointments
• Memberships

Experience Required

• Multiple sectors within Financial Services.
• Experience in practicing Enterprise-Wide Business Architecture within a PMO construct.
• Experience in Value Modelling, Capability Modelling, Process Modelling, Value Stream Mapping and building proven architectures that guide value driven decisions.

Please call us on 0100300127.

NB: Should you not hear from us within 6 weeks,