Job Description
Business Domain Architect
* Contract Duration: Until 30th May 2025
* Location: Farringdon, London
* Job Type: Contract, Hybrid (2 days in the office)
Reed Professional Services are recruiting for a Business Domain Architect to work with one of our largest clients! This is an opportunity to work on transformative projects with a historic and leading service provider in their field. This role is crucial for backfilling a retiring Project Manager and involves significant interaction with the international teams within the business.
Day-to-day of the role:
* Collaborate with Transformation Architects to shape project designs, understand interdependencies, and align investments with strategic goals.
* Work alongside Senior Project Management to lead overall project delivery.
* Challenge, shape, and champion functional and enterprise strategies in collaboration with Transformation Architects.
* Continually assess threats and opportunities to strategic objectives to transform and optimize domain operating models and technology estate efficiency.
* Plan and guide technology-related business changes in alignment with strategic objectives.
* Engage key business stakeholders to identify business and technology-enabled innovation opportunities to grow revenue, optimize costs, maintain legislative compliance, and mitigate risks.
* Produce deliverables that demonstrate how to move the business domain toward realizing its strategic goals and targeted business outcomes.
* Provide fact-based assessments to help business and IT leaders make informed investment decisions.
* Ensure the business and operating models fit together by showing the interdependencies between components.
* Research emerging technology trends and disruptions and competitors’ practices relevant to assigned customers.
* Consult with technical subject matter experts to develop business solutions, advising on options, risks, costs versus benefits, and impact on other business processes and system priorities.
* Act as a functional authority and business assurance lead for key projects.
* Collaborate with agile teams to ensure prioritized continuous delivery of business value.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
* Significant experience in a Business/Solution/Enterprise Architecture or Business Partner role.
* Adept at producing industry-standard architecture artefacts and effectively presenting content.
* Demonstrable experience in developing technology-enabled business strategies.
* Influential verbal communicator and highly skilled in facilitating and leading multi-disciplined, high-performing teams.
* In-depth knowledge of different types of business and operating models.
* Comprehensive knowledge of project facilitation, product development, and organizational change management.
* Strong analytical and conceptual skills; ability to create original concepts and theories for a variety of projects.
* Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders.
* Highly collaborative and supportive of business ideals and strategies.
Desirable:
* Previous experience in a logistics company or consultancy.
Contracting Route:
* Timesheets via Umbrella Company
To apply for this Business Domain Architect position, please submit your CV and a member of the RPS Talent Team will be in touch.