As a Business Architect at BIP UK, you will play a crucial role in guiding and shaping the transformation of an organisation. You will work closely with stakeholders to understand business needs, analyse requirements, design target operating models, and develop strategic roadmaps. Throughout the transformation programme, you will be involved in design and delivery activities to ensure successful implementation and alignment with business objectives.
What you'll be doing:
1. Collaborate with senior leadership to understand strategic goals and objectives.
2. Conduct analysis of the current state of the business and identify areas for improvement.
3. Develop target operating models, business capabilities, and roadmaps to achieve strategic objectives.
Business Requirements Elicitation:
1. Conduct stakeholder interviews and workshops to gather insights and identify business needs.
2. Elicit, document, and analyse business requirements, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
3. Identify opportunities for process optimisation, automation, and digital transformation.
Solution Design and Architecture:
1. Design end-to-end business solutions, ensuring they align with strategic objectives.
2. Create and refine target operating models and process and data models.
3. Collaborate with technical teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
4. Assure that the solution build aligns to the target operating model and maintain change control of strategic requirements.
Programme Management and Governance:
1. Collaborate with programme managers to define project scope, deliverables, and timelines.
2. Develop and maintain program-level business architecture governance frameworks and processes.
3. Monitor and assure the transformation programme delivers the strategic objectives.
What experience you'll bring:
1. Proven background as Business Architect, or in a similar role, preferably within large-scale transformation programmes.
2. Expert understanding of business architecture frameworks, such as Business Architecture Guild, TOGAF or Zachman.
3. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate business needs into practical solutions.
4. Brilliant communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
5. Exceptional facilitation skills for workshops, interviews, and requirements gathering sessions.
6. Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
7. Proficient in requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, and management techniques.
8. Project management experience and familiarity with Agile or other project management methodologies.
9. Knowledge of industry best practices and emerging trends in business architecture and digital transformation.
Who we are:
At BIP, we are trusted by the world’s leading organisations to design and deliver next generation business models that deliver increased volume and quality.
The world is changing faster than ever. Shifting demands, business models, competition, inflation and supply chains are just some of the challenges facing business today. All of this means organisations need to choose their partners with more care than ever before. Partners with a common purpose to create a sustainable legacy.
We are problem solvers, market makers, creative disruptors, and future proofers. We are listeners, learners and collaborators, committed to working with our clients and partners to create maximum value for the long-term.
We’re doers, we are makers, we are not Power Point writers... Everything we do is aimed at affecting a material change within a defined timeline, and we combine thoughts and actions to ensure it has the greatest impact in the real world.
Ideate, test and learn:
We are open. We work alongside our clients, their partners and everyone else needed to achieve the intended outcome. Working with us is exciting, frenetic and occasionally demanding, but it is never lonely.
Knowledge transfer:
We aim to make our clients independent. All our projects have a dual objective: to deliver against an outcome, and to equip our clients to keep the activity running on their own. It offers them greater value, and it allows us to focus on where we can make the greatest difference next.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Consulting
Industries
Business Consulting and Services and IT Services and IT Consulting
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