Business Architecture Architect

Sasso Consulting (Pty) Ltd

Johannesburg

On-site

ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Sasso Consulting (Pty) Ltd in Centurion, Gauteng, is seeking experienced Business Architecture Architects to develop and optimise enterprise business architecture frameworks, operating models, and value streams within complex environments.

You will translate strategy into structured models, align business objectives with processes and technology, and collaborate with senior stakeholders to drive large-scale transformation.

Qualifications

Relevant degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Business Management or related field.
5-8+ years of experience in business/enterprise architecture or transformation.
Proven ability to model current-state and target-state architectures.
Strong knowledge of TOGAF and BIZBOK frameworks.
Experience with value stream mapping and capability assessments.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain enterprise business architecture frameworks, principles and roadmaps.
Translate strategy into structured architecture models and operating models.
Engage senior stakeholders to validate target architectures and governance.
Map capabilities to processes, applications and information requirements.
Lead architecture workshops and collaboration with transformation teams.

Skills

Business Architecture

Enterprise Architecture

TOGAF

BIZBOK

Capability Mapping

Stakeholder Engagement

Architecture Workshops

Operating Model Design

Value Stream Mapping

Strategic Planning

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Architecture modelling tools

Job description

Business Architecture Architect

Location: Centurion, Gauteng (provisional - to be confirmed)
Positions Available: 5
Salary: Market-related
Employment Type: To be confirmed

Job Overview

We are seeking experienced and highly skilled Business Architecture Architects to develop, maintain and optimise enterprise business architecture frameworks, operating models, business capabilities and organisational transformation strategies within complex enterprise environments.

The successful candidates will be responsible for translating organisational strategy into structured business architecture models, ensuring alignment between business objectives, operating processes, organisational capabilities, information requirements and technology investments.

This role requires extensive expertise in business architecture, enterprise architecture, business capability modelling, operating model design, value stream mapping, strategic planning and enterprise transformation.

The ideal candidates will have proven experience developing business architecture frameworks, conducting business capability assessments, defining current-state and future-state operating models and supporting large-scale business transformation initiatives.

Candidates must demonstrate the ability to work with senior business stakeholders, enterprise architects, technology leaders and transformation teams to establish a clear architectural view of how an organisation operates and how its capabilities must evolve to achieve strategic objectives.

This is a specialist architecture role requiring practical experience designing and maintaining enterprise business architecture, rather than general business analysis, project management or process documentation alone.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Business Architecture Development

Develop, implement and maintain enterprise business architecture frameworks, principles, standards and methodologies.
Define and document the organisation's business architecture landscape.
Translate organisational strategy and business objectives into structured architecture models.
Develop business architecture blueprints to guide enterprise transformation.
Establish relationships between business capabilities, value streams, processes, organisational structures and information requirements.
Maintain current-state and target-state business architecture models.
Identify architectural gaps, dependencies and improvement opportunities.
Ensure business architecture aligns with enterprise architecture principles.
Support the development of business architecture roadmaps.
Promote consistent business architecture practices across the organisation.

Business Capability Modelling and Assessment

Develop and maintain enterprise business capability maps.
Identify and classify core, supporting and strategic business capabilities.
Conduct business capability maturity and performance assessments.
Evaluate the effectiveness of existing business capabilities.
Identify capability gaps affecting organisational performance.
Define target-state capabilities aligned with strategic objectives.
Support prioritisation of business capability investments.
Map business capabilities to applications, processes, information and organisational functions.
Develop capability improvement roadmaps.
Support capability-based planning and investment decisions.

Business Operating Model Design

Analyse existing organisational operating models and business structures.
Develop current-state and future-state target operating models.
Define relationships between people, processes, technology, information and governance.
Identify operating model inefficiencies and structural weaknesses.
Recommend improvements to organisational operating models.
Support operating model redesign and business transformation initiatives.
Define operating model principles and architectural requirements.
Evaluate the impact of proposed organisational changes.
Collaborate with business leaders to validate target operating models.
Ensure operating model designs support organisational strategy and operational effectiveness.

Value Stream Mapping and Business Process Architecture

Identify and document enterprise value streams.
Map value streams to business capabilities and organisational outcomes.
Develop high-level business process architecture models.
Analyse relationships between business processes, capabilities and value delivery.
Identify inefficiencies and opportunities for process optimisation.
Support enterprise process standardisation and transformation.
Collaborate with business process management specialists and business analysts.
Maintain architectural alignment between business process models and enterprise capability models.
Support prioritisation of process improvement and automation initiatives.
Ensure process architecture supports target operating models.

Business Strategy and Architecture Alignment

Engage with senior stakeholders to understand organisational strategy and priorities.
Translate strategic objectives into business architecture requirements.
Identify business capabilities required to support strategic initiatives.
Evaluate the architectural impact of new business strategies.
Support strategic planning and business transformation programmes.
Develop business architecture recommendations to support investment decisions.
Identify dependencies between strategic initiatives and enterprise capabilities.
Support portfolio planning and prioritisation.
Ensure proposed business changes align with enterprise architecture standards.
Present business architecture insights to senior management and governance forums.

Enterprise Architecture Integration

Collaborate with enterprise architects, solution architects, data architects and technology architects.
Ensure alignment between business architecture and application, data and technology architectures.
Map business capabilities to supporting enterprise applications and systems.
Identify technology dependencies affecting business capabilities.
Support the evaluation of technology investments from a business architecture perspective.
Contribute to enterprise architecture repositories and architectural documentation.
Participate in architecture governance and design review activities.
Identify gaps between business requirements and technology capabilities.
Support the development of integrated enterprise architecture roadmaps.
Ensure architectural consistency across business and technology transformation initiatives.

Business Transformation and Change Impact Analysis

Support enterprise transformation and organisational change programmes.
Assess the impact of proposed changes on business capabilities and operating models.
Identify architectural dependencies and transformation risks.
Develop transition-state business architecture models.
Support business transformation planning and implementation.
Collaborate with programme managers and change management teams.
Evaluate transformation initiatives against target-state architecture.
Support benefits identification and business value assessment.
Recommend improvements to transformation sequencing and prioritisation.
Monitor alignment between implemented changes and approved business architecture.

Architecture Governance and Standards

Develop and maintain business architecture principles, standards and modelling conventions.
Establish governance processes for business architecture development and maintenance.
Ensure architecture models are accurate, consistent and appropriately maintained.
Support enterprise architecture governance forums.
Review business initiatives for alignment with approved architecture principles.
Maintain architectural decision records and documentation.
Identify deviations from target-state architecture.
Recommend corrective actions and architectural improvements.
Support compliance with relevant enterprise governance frameworks.
Promote continuous improvement of business architecture practices.

Stakeholder Engagement and Architecture Communication

Engage with executives, business unit leaders, enterprise architects and transformation stakeholders.
Facilitate business architecture workshops and capability mapping sessions.
Present business capability assessments and target operating models.
Translate complex architecture concepts into clear business recommendations.
Build consensus around future-state architecture and transformation priorities.
Provide architectural guidance to business and technology project teams.
Support strategic decision-making through structured architecture analysis.
Maintain effective communication between business and IT stakeholders.
Develop architecture presentations, reports and executive-level recommendations.

Minimum Requirements

Relevant degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Business Management, Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Computer Science or a related discipline.
Typically 5-8+ years of relevant professional experience in business architecture, enterprise architecture, business transformation or a closely related discipline.
Proven hands‑on experience developing enterprise business architecture models, frameworks and deliverables.
Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining business capability maps.
Practical experience designing current-state and target-state operating models.
Strong understanding of business architecture principles, frameworks and methodologies.
Experience with enterprise value stream mapping and business capability assessment.
Experience aligning business strategy with organisational capabilities, processes and technology.
Proven involvement in large-scale business transformation or enterprise architecture initiatives.
Experience developing business architecture roadmaps and transformation recommendations.
Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.
Familiarity with Business Architecture Guild principles and BIZBOK guidance would be advantageous.
Experience working with enterprise architecture modelling tools.
Strong stakeholder engagement and executive-level communication skills.
Ability to facilitate architecture workshops and strategic planning discussions.
Excellent analytical, conceptual modelling and problem‑solving abilities.
Experience working within complex enterprise environments.