Lead Business Architect
Posted 2 weeks ago by N Consulting Global
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Lead Business Architect will be responsible for designing and developing the target operating model for a specific division of the Bank in London. This role involves defining business architecture, contributing to senior discussions, and ensuring effective governance through the implementation of the operating model. The architect will analyze current and target states, define processes, and identify external entities that interact with the business. Strong understanding of finance and the ability to address structural issues within the organization are essential for success in this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the target operating model design and development for a discreet operating division of the Bank.
- Develop the business architecture required to deliver the agreed target operating model.
- Contribute to senior level discussions advising on all aspects of the operating model.
- Apply a structured business architecture approach and methodology for capturing key views of the business unit.
- Define business outcomes, targets, and measures for successful implementation of the target operating model.
- Maintain the target operating model, describing primary business functions of the assigned business unit.
- Complete analysis of the current and target state to support the definition of the business model and capability model.
- Define strategic, core, and support processes across the organization.
- Identify and describe external entities that interact with the business.
- Define data elements shared between this business unit and other units in the enterprise.
Key Skills:
- A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and appreciation for strategy, processes, and capabilities.
- Strong understanding of finance.
- Ability to recognize structural issues within the organization and functional interdependencies.
- Ability to apply architectural principles, methods, and tools to business challenges.
- Ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and articulate their relevance.
- Ability to visualize and create high-level models for future analysis.
- Extensive experience planning and deploying business or IT initiatives.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Role: Lead Business Architect
Location: London,UK
Duration: 12 months FTC
Responsibilities
- Lead the target operating model design and development for a discreet operating division of the Bank
- Develop the business architecture required to deliver the agreed target operating model, for the assigned business area, based on a situational awareness of business motivations.
- Contribute to senior level discussions advising on all aspects of the operating model
- Apply a structured business architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views of the business unit
- Define the business outcomes, targets and measures used to define the successful implementation of the target operating model, including traceability through the organisation, to provide effective governance
- Maintain the target operating model, describing the primary business functions of the assigned business unit, and distinguish between customer-facing, supplier-related, business execution and business management functions
- Complete analysis of the current and target state to support the definition of the business model, capability model and transition states
- Define the strategic, core and support processes across the organisation
- Identify and describe external entities such as customers, suppliers and external systems that interact with the business
- Define the data elements shared between this business unit and other units in the enterprise, and the relationships between those data elements and processes, people, systems, and other data elements
WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE:
- A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance
- Strong understanding of finance
- The ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies.
- The ability to apply architectural principles, methods, and tools to business challenges
- The ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and drawings, and articulate their collective relevance to the organization and to high-priority business issues
- The ability to visualize and create high-level models that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture
- Extensive experience planning and deploying either business or IT initiatives