Assistant Business Architect

5 months ago

Bradford, United Kingdom Yorkshire Water Full time

**Salary & Benefits(4a)**: £44,254 - £55,318 + car allowance or £2,500 cash incentive + up to 10% pension with 5% contribution + annual bonus + retail savings schemes + online GP access + life assurance cover + free on-site parking + 25 days holiday + 1 wellbeing day + bank holiday.

**Location**: Buttershaw, BD6 2SZ / Hybrid Working (1 office a week - Bradford)

**Work type**: Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday.

We have an exciting opportunity for a** Assistant Business Architect** to join the Tech function at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to provide the best service to our customers. Could this be you?

**What we do**:
Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it’s so much more than this.

We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire’s water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region’s health, wellbeing, and prosperity.

New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry. Our business architects play key part of how we plan to shape the business and meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.

You will support the development and maintenance of business architecture capabilities, value streams and initiatives within Yorkshire Water. You will also assist with aligning business strategies, defining business capabilities and enterprise initiatives across business units. In this role, you will support articulation of the connections between strategy, business architecture and strategy execution, strengthening decision making around roadmaps, investments and strategic planning.

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**Where you fit in**:
As our **Assistant Business Architect**, you will:
Come from a business background with managerial experience and understand the economics and business model of the water industry where cost of service and regulated activities are key constraints. At the same time, you are well versed to towards the idea of system and social value, that cascades to our key partners and stakeholders.

You will also have an appreciation of business architecture concepts, such as capabilities and value streams, and you understand the value of a joined-up approach. You might have practiced Business Architecture before, or a similar strategic thinking and analysis role, connecting the dots and providing that big picture that tells a story and helps your colleagues understand "where", "what" and "why".

**Daily tasks**:

- Collaborate with the Senior Business Architect and other roles and disciplines to help architect the Yorkshire Water's business ecosystem and architecture, using capabilities and value streams.
- Use knowledge of Business Architecture concepts to challenge status quo and initiate action via business designs and solutions focused on key value streams.
- Lead and facilitate group sessions with senior stakeholders to gather information and build consensus on key business architecture artefacts, with a strong focus on value, cost and risk reduction.
- Contribute to developing enterprise architecture models/blueprints depicting capabilities and value streams.
- Work with other disciplines to translate business capabilities and value streams onto process, technology, and data.
- Build relationships and communicate effectively across all levels of the organization, including senior stakeholders.
- Deliver high impact presentations, facilitate workshops, and prepare reports for senior stakeholders.

**What skills & qualifications you will need**:

- Understanding of Business Architecture concepts, capabilities, value streams (Business Architecture Guild frameworks)
- Knowledge of a typical water company business model and challenges
- Ability to analyse situations, interview senior stakeholders, and probe for deeper understanding.
- Information management and analysis skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, tailored for senior stakeholders.
- Presentation and facilitation skills for audiences including senior stakeholders.
- Strong commercial acumen.
- Degree in Engineering, Business, Management, Finance, or related field.

**You will also benefit from having**:

- Certification in Business Architecture (e.g., CBA, TOGAF) desired, but not essential

We embrace a flexible working model, where our hybrid setup typically requires an average of 1 in the office per week. This could be slightly more when collaborat

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