Business Architect is responsible for leading the transformation of a business and ensuring critical deliverables, such as business capability models, business capabilities, and value streams, are developed and implement business architect interprets and develops the strategy for the operational needs of an organization and designs an effective IT architecture for business process management. The architect fleshes out business capability maps and value streams to link strategy and execution and helps reorganize and restructure the IT enablement process.
Business architect roles demand developing or contributing to key deliverables like strategy summary, operating, and business model analysis, business entities, organization mapping, systems mapping, system footprint analysis, etc.
- Plan and design a business architecture strategy based on carefully scrutinizing various business scenarios and motivations.
- Capturing the vital views of the organization through a structured business architecture approach is a key business architect role.
- Illustrate the main business functions of the company and to identify functions that are customer-facing or supplier-related or pertaining to business execution and business management.
- Identify strategic business goals that can be traced through the organization and be mapped for ongoing governance.
- Describe strategic, core, and support processes that stretch beyond functional and organizational boundaries.
- Define external entities like customers, suppliers, and external systems related to the enterprise.
- Describe the workforce, resources, and controls engaged in the processes.
- Business architect responsibilities also include defining data shared across the business and their interrelation
- Establish how roles, capabilities, and business units are related. Thereafter, decomposition of those business units into corresponding subunits.
- Conduct strategic studies for newly requested services, as well as define the positioning of the new services within the current organization's capabilities, and applications portfolio
Competencies
- Experience in e-government solutions.
- A broad view of the business and varied degrees of appreciation for strategies, processes, technologies, and governance.
- The skill to apply architectural principles to business solutions.
- The ability to link and incorporate disjoint documents and drawings and project their relevance to the enterprise and top-priority business matters.
- Relevant expertise in using model-based representations that can be used to collect, aggregate, or disaggregate complex business information as and when required.
- The ability to conceptualize and design high-level models that can help in future analysis to remodel the business architecture.
- Relevant experience in planning and deploying IT initiatives.
- Experience in creating business processes with the aid of various tools and techniques.
- Exceptional liaison abilities to convey information needs of the business to the IT team and data constraints to the business, similar conveyance capabilities regarding both business and IT strategy, business processes and workflow automation, business as well as IT initiatives, benefit realization and service delivery.
Requirements
- bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field.
- 5+ Years of experience in the same or similar role.
- Candidates must be located in Saudi Arabia
- Saudi Nationals are preferred.
