Business Architect

• Develop a business architecture strategy based on a situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations.
  

• To capture the vital views of the organization through a structured business architecture approach is a key business architect role
  

• Reviewing, analyzing, evaluating ideas, projects and opportunities to develop new products, new technologies and business models for the business segments
  

• To illustrate the main business functions of the company and to identify functions that are customer-facing or supplier-related, or pertaining to business execution and business management.
  

• 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 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 organizational boundaries; identify and describe external entities such as customers, suppliers, and external systems that interact with the business; and describe which people, resources and controls are 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 subunits, and the internal or external management of those units.
  

Requirements

• A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance
  

• A broad view of the business and varied degrees of appreciation for strategies, processes, technologies, and governance
  

• The skill to apply architectural principles to business solutions
  

• The ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies
  

• The ability to apply architectural principles to business solutions
  

• The ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and drawings, and articulate their collective relevance to the organization and to high-priority business issues
  

• Experience using model-based representations that can be adjusted as required to collect, aggregate or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business
  

• 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 both business and IT initiatives
  

• Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques
  

• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations
  

• The ability to act as liaison conveying information needs of the business to IT and data constraints to the business; applies equal conveyance regarding business strategy and IT strategy, business processes and workflow automation, business initiatives and IT initiatives, and benefit realization and service delivery
  

• Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus
  

• Strong situational analysis and decision making abilities