Business Architect
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Knowledge & Skills
- Knowledge of successful business architecture change in complex and evolving environment.
- In depth knowledge of business process analysis and design techniques, including the use of modelling and collaborative tools.
- Strong workshop facilitation and interview skills, including negotiation, influence, mediation, and conflict management skills.
- Extensive knowledge of standard methods and techniques, with the ability to select the appropriate approach for a particular assignment.
- Strong proven strategic investigative and analytical skills using a variety of analysis techniques.
- You will identify interfaces between organisational departments and functions and integrate / align procedures and systems across functions.
- Drive collaborative working between departments to identify the integrated and best solution.
- Translate plans into meaningful objectives for people, ensuring activities are aligned and people are clear about how they personally contribute.
- Engage with relevant stakeholders as the key contact to develop the initial project concept, elaborating the primary business objectives, clarifying the scope and impacts of the proposed change and identifying the initial risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies that affect the successful outcome of the project
- Consult with senior management and other key stakeholders to capture, evaluate, challenge and prioritise business requirements and success measures
- Collaborate with 3rd party delivery partners to identify the best solution options including structured evaluation and appraisal of options that ensure user-friendly and efficient solutions
- Develop robust mandates and investment cases for business architecture projects.
- Challenge suggested benefits, translate intangible benefits into tangible benefits and identify additional benefits to maximise the extracted value of the proposed change
- Act as custodian for the business requirements through the project lifecycle to ensure consistency with the defined solution and delivery of the identified business outcomes
- Use knowledge of current and emerging trends to enable continuous business improvement that employ the latest best practice methods and best in breed technical solutions
- Support business acceptance of developed solutions, including process and system walkthrough and business acceptance testing
- Manage the projects adherence to core delivery assurance principles
Who you are
- You will have relevant qualifications and experience in one or more of the Business Architecture disciplines of process management, business analysis, data and management information or IT system development.
- Experience delivering Business Architecture solutions that eliminate duplication and improve efficiency of business operations.
- Experience of formal project management techniques, such as Prince2, plus associated tools and processes, including planning and estimating.
- Experience of Request for Information (RFI) and Invitation to Tender (ITT) activities, including the creation and use of an evaluation score card.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and written skills, with relevant experience of influencing decision making of senior executives, business managers and third parties at a strategic level.
- Experience of developing business cases for large complex business change programmes, including financial and numerical modelling and appraisal skills.
- Prior experience working in Nuclear, asset intensive and/or Safety Critical industries.
- Closing date for applications is Monday November 2nd
- Interviews will be held mid to the end of November
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- Knowledge of successful business architecture change in complex and evolving environment.
- In depth knowledge of business process analysis and design techniques, including the use of modelling and collaborative tools.
- Strong workshop facilitation and interview skills, including negotiation, influence, mediation, and conflict management skills.
- Extensive knowledge of standard methods and techniques, with the ability to select the appropriate approach for a particular assignment.
- Strong proven strategic investigative and analytical skills using a variety of analysis techniques.
- You will identify interfaces between organisational departments and functions and integrate / align procedures and systems across functions.
- Drive collaborative working between departments to identify the integrated and best solution.
- Translate plans into meaningful objectives for people, ensuring activities are aligned and people are clear about how they personally contribute.
- Engage with relevant stakeholders as the key contact to develop the initial project concept, elaborating the primary business objectives, clarifying the scope and impacts of the proposed change and identifying the initial risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies that affect the successful outcome of the project
- Consult with senior management and other key stakeholders to capture, evaluate, challenge and prioritise business requirements and success measures
- Collaborate with 3rd party delivery partners to identify the best solution options including structured evaluation and appraisal of options that ensure user-friendly and efficient solutions
- Develop robust mandates and investment cases for business architecture projects.
- Challenge suggested benefits, translate intangible benefits into tangible benefits and identify additional benefits to maximise the extracted value of the proposed change
- Act as custodian for the business requirements through the project lifecycle to ensure consistency with the defined solution and delivery of the identified business outcomes
- Use knowledge of current and emerging trends to enable continuous business improvement that employ the latest best practice methods and best in breed technical solutions
- Support business acceptance of developed solutions, including process and system walkthrough and business acceptance testing
- Manage the projects adherence to core delivery assurance principles
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