• Develop, maintain, and enhance business architecture frameworks aligned to enterprise and business strategy.
• Manage expenditure planning, ensuring spend is within approved budget parameters.
• Drive shareholder value through integrated frameworks, guidelines, and optimisation plans.
• Align and innovate within area of specialisation to enable integrated solutions and long-term competitive advantage.
• Design and implement new systems, solutions, and processes aligned to business strategy.
• Apply an enterprise-wide perspective to strategy, governance, and organisational capabilities when developing architecture.
• Set tactical and strategic goals that map to measurable metrics and provide organisational traceability.
• Identify all external and internal entities—customers, suppliers, partners—and understand their interactions with business processes.
• Define relationships among roles, capabilities, business units, and associated subunits.
• Identify and analyse shared data across capabilities, customer segments, product pillars, and broader enterprise entities.
• Apply structured architecture methodologies to capture key views of capabilities, customer segments, or product pillars.
• Develop and maintain an architecture roadmap that is aligned with platform and capability architectures.
• Conduct ongoing research to ensure architecture remains relevant and aligned to industry trends.
• Apply design thinking to connect business intentions with business action in a cohesive, big-picture view.
• Review and guide solution architectures to ensure alignment and effective implementation.
• Serve as a liaison between business and IT, translating strategic and technical requirements between teams.
• Provide support, motivation, and guidance to technology teams and business stakeholders.
• Act as a change agent, driving enterprise transformation through business architecture models and solutions.
• Develop and apply model-based representations to consolidate complex or fragmented business information.
• Visualise and create scalable high-level models for future analysis and architectural maturity.
• Integrate and interpret disparate documentation and articulate its relevance to priority business issues.
• Negotiate trade-offs between architectural quality attributes and secure technology buy-in.
• Champion architecture practices across the organisation to secure alignment and necessary approvals.
• Establish collaborative structures and forums to promote shared learning and integration.
• Drive business process standardisation across business units in line with the business architecture model.
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Architecture, Business Analysis, Information Systems, Computer Science, Enterprise Architecture, or a related field.
• A Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA), Enterprise Architecture, or related field will be an added advantage.
• Relevant certifications such as TOGAF, BIZBOK, ArchiMate, Lean Six Sigma, or Design Thinking are strongly preferred.
Experience
• Minimum 5–8 years’ experience in Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Business Analysis, or related fields.
• Proven experience developing and implementing enterprise-wide business architecture frameworks.
• Experience working within complex, multi-disciplinary environments involving IT, data, and business teams.
• Demonstrated ability to design strategic and tactical architecture roadmaps.
• Experience with platform thinking, capability modelling, and customer-centric architecture approaches.
• Strong background in analyzing data flows, business processes, and organisational structures.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and driving change across diverse business units.
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate, gain buy-in, and convey complex concepts across technical and business teams.
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