Business Architectc

Role Overview

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain business architecture models covering capabilities, value streams, business services, organizational units, stakeholders, processes, information concepts, and strategic objectives.
• Assess the current-state business architecture and define target-state business architecture aligned with organizational strategy and transformation priorities.
• Develop business capability maps and assess capability maturity, performance, importance, and transformation needs.
• Define and model enterprise value chains and value streams to show how value is created and delivered to customers, beneficiaries, and stakeholders.
• Analyze operating models, organizational responsibilities, business services, and cross-functional interactions.
• Map strategic objectives and initiatives to business capabilities, services, processes, applications, data, and transformation programs where relevant.
• Identify business architecture gaps, overlaps, dependencies, duplication, pain points, and improvement opportunities.
• Support the development of business transformation roadmaps and transition states based on prioritized capability improvements.
• Collaborate with enterprise, data, application, technology, security, and solution architects to ensure end-to-end architectural alignment.
• Support business process architecture and identify relationships between business capabilities, value streams, processes, and services.
• Facilitate workshops and interviews with senior stakeholders, business owners, process owners, and subject matter experts.
• Produce clear architecture views, heatmaps, matrices, catalogs, and executive-level presentations to communicate business architecture insights.

Required Experience

• Minimum 8-10 years of experience in business architecture, enterprise architecture, business analysis, transformation, strategy, operating model design, or management consulting.
• At least 4-5 years of experience in a business architecture or closely related senior role.
• Demonstrated experience developing business capability maps, value streams, operating models, and current-state / target-state business architecture.
• Experience supporting large-scale transformation, digital transformation, enterprise architecture, or organizational improvement programs.
• Experience engaging senior business stakeholders and facilitating architecture or transformation workshops.
• Experience translating strategic objectives into structured business architecture and actionable transformation priorities.

Core Competencies

• Business capability modeling.
• Value chain and value stream modeling.
• Operating model analysis.
• Business service architecture.
• Organization and stakeholder modeling.
• Business process architecture.
• Strategy-to-execution alignment.
• Business architecture gap analysis.
• Transformation roadmap development.
• Stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation.
• Architecture governance.
• Consulting, analysis, and executive communication.

Preferred Frameworks, Standards & Methods

• TOGAF.
• ArchiMate.
• Business Architecture Guild / BIZBOK concepts.
• BPMN.
• Capability-based planning.
• Value stream mapping.
• Operating model design.
• Business process management and transformation methods.
• Relevant national or sector-specific enterprise architecture frameworks where applicable.

Preferred Tools

• Bizzdesign.
• Sparx Enterprise Architect.
• Orbus / iServer.
• ARIS.
• MEGA HOPEX or similar enterprise architecture platforms.
• Business process modeling and collaboration tools.

Preferred Qualifications & Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Management, or a related discipline.
• TOGAF certification is highly desirable.
• ArchiMate certification is desirable.
• Business Architecture, BPM, Lean, Six Sigma, or relevant transformation certifications are advantageous.

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