Business Architect
Role Overview
Lead the development and maintenance of business architecture artefacts connecting strategy, capabilities, value streams, services, processes, and organisational responsibilities.
Support evidence-based investment, transformation prioritisation, and enterprise-wide alignment with the Enterprise Architecture framework.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role Purpose
Lead the development and maintenance of business architecture artefacts connecting strategy, capabilities, value streams, services, processes, and organisational responsibilities.
Support evidence-based investment, transformation prioritisation, and enterprise-wide alignment with the Enterprise Architecture framework.
Business Architecture Responsibilities
- Develop capability maps, value streams, business service catalogues, and business architecture viewpoints.
- Translate strategic objectives, stakeholder needs, and operating-model changes into architecture requirements and roadmaps.
- Establish traceability across strategy, capabilities, services, processes, applications, and initiatives in the EA repository.
- Validate current-state and target-state models, gaps, dependencies, and priorities with business owners and Business Analysts.
- Support transformation, portfolio decisions, and impact assessments through architecture insights and recommendations.
Governance and Stakeholder Work
- Apply EA governance, modelling standards, and quality controls and contribute to Architecture Review Board materials.
- Facilitate workshops and communicate architecture findings to business and technology stakeholders.
- Contribute to the EA content framework, reference models, principles, KPIs, and continuous-improvement activities.
Qualifications and Experience
- At least 5 years of relevant experience in business architecture, enterprise architecture, business transformation, operating-model design, or a closely related role.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
- TOGAF certification is required or strongly preferred.
- Working knowledge of ArchiMate and BPMN and experience producing business architecture diagrams using EA tools.
- Strong facilitation, analytical writing, stakeholder-management, presentation, and architecture analysis skills.
Knowledge and Tools
- Practical knowledge of capability-based planning and value-stream modelling.
- Ability to model and analyse capabilities, services, processes, information needs, stakeholders, and organisational relationships.
- Experience using EA or process-modelling tools such as Orbus OrbusInfinity, Bizzdesign, or SAP is preferred.
- Arabic native language and very good business English.
- Experience in government, tax, financial services, or large complex organisations is preferred.
Key Deliverables
Business capability map and maturity assessment.
Value streams and business service catalogue.
Current-state and target-state business architecture viewpoints.
Capability-to-process, service, and application traceability.
Business architecture gap analysis, roadmaps, and impact assessments.
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