Senior Business Analyst

SUMMARY:
We are recruiting for a Senior Business Architect role.

POSITION INFO:
Key responsibilities:

• Develop a business architecture strategy based on a situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations.
• Apply a structured business architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views of the enterprise.
• Capture the tactical and strategic enterprise goals that provide traceability through the organization and ensure that the goals are mapped to metrics that provide ongoing governance.
• Describe the primary business functions of the enterprise and distinguish between customer-facing, supplier-related, business execution and business management functions.
• Define the set of strategic, core and support processes that transcend functional and organisational boundaries; identify and describe external entities such as customers, suppliers, and external systems that interact with the business; and describe the people, resources and controls involved in the processes.
• Define the data shared across the enterprise and the relationships between those data.
• Capture the relationships among roles, capabilities and business units, the decomposition of those business units into sub-units, and the internal or external management of those units.
• Conduct business capability map assessments to identify areas of improvement and make the changes necessary to carry out strategy or reshape the business.
• Responsible for designing business architecture artefacts. This includes creating and maintaining the knowledge base and connecting it to other domains such as processes and system applications
• Manage the practice within an organisation as it matures by formalising the supporting infrastructure, training, methodology, governance, and tools.
• Ensure solutions developed across the organisation are aligned to enterprise architecture standards and principles, leverage common solutions and services, and meet financial targets (cost and benefits).
• Develop and evaluate requests for information (RFIs) and requests for proposals (RFPs), where required.
• Establish, build and maintain collaborative working relationships with relevant internal stakeholders.
• Build and maintain positive and value-adding relationships with relevant external stakeholders.
• Engage with both internal and external stakeholders to identify and evaluate performance barriers and success to continuously improve on the service delivery.
• Work in collaboration with colleagues in the centre to ensure timeous delivery of the work and manage service level agreements (SLAs).

• Must have an information technology-related diploma or degree AND a professional architecture certification (i.e. The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Zachman certified, Certified Business Architect (CBA)).
• Must have at least five years of experience as a Senior Business Architect and possess expertise in the following business architecture components:
  • (i) business architecture principles.
  • (ii) business strategy and goals alignment.
  • (iii) business capability model.
  • (iv) value streams and value chain analysis.
  • (v) business process architecture (BPM models and process maps).
  • (vi) organisational model and role definition.
  • (vii) business information and data models.
  • (viii) customer/ auditees/ citizens journeys and personas.
  • (ix) business capability heatmap.
  • (x) business architecture roadmap.
  • (xi) business performance metrics and KPIs.
  • (xii) impact analysis and change management plan.