Business Architect

4 weeks ago

Cheadle, Staffordshire, United Kingdom Together Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Business Architect to join our team at Together, a market-leading property finance expert with an entrepreneurial spirit. As a Business Architect, you will play a critical role in shaping and translating business strategies into actionable roadmaps, driving business growth and innovation.

Key Responsibilities
  • Operate at the portfolio level, effectively representing the Business domain as part of an Architecture and Design team.
  • Support the Architecture & Design Director to shape and translate business strategies and support key initiatives as a trusted representative of the business impacts.
  • Own, on behalf of the Architecture & Design Director, the definition of target architecture and target operating models in line with business strategy.
  • Develop and maintain the catalogue of capabilities that align to the Enterprise Reference Model - including their definition.
  • Run the Architecture Community of Practice - ensuring there is a regular platform to bring together the different architecture disciplines.
  • Match the business strategies to our capabilities - identifying areas where we potentially need to invest, or areas where there is scope to make savings across our estate.
  • Ensure the business is able to articulate its needs in relation to significant, strategic activities including audit actions.
  • Provide timely and effective resolution of audit actions relating to the technology estate and its' architecture.
  • Support strategic and significant business-facing initiatives - including the definition and design of target operating models and their transition states.
  • Investigate and surface the business considerations that contribute to design direction.
  • Champion clear requirements capture: support the delivery trains to continually improve the clarity of both their functional and non-functional business requirements.
  • Deliver business consultancy and support for the shaping and refinement of new business ideas or opportunities.
Requirements
  • Experience of Business Architecture within complex, regulated organisations.
  • Experienced in the development and delivery of Target Operating Models and Target Architecture through a 'Business' lens.
  • Exceptional stakeholder management skills - with exposure to Exec-level stakeholders.
  • Experience of leading, shaping and contributing to communities of practice in a Continuous Delivery / DevOps operating model.
  • Experience of translating business strategy into actionable roadmaps.
  • Delivery-focused - strikes a pragmatic balance between design and quick wins / execution.
  • Experience of working with the other Architectural domains to demonstrate the value of an architecture function.
  • Significant experience of developing and delivering best practice when it comes to understanding and capturing business requirements - ideally in a Transformation context.
  • An experienced facilitator - able to synthesise complex business problems into actionable instructions for delivery teams.
What We Offer
  • 27 days holiday (increasing with service), plus bank holidays.
  • Buy & sell holidays.
  • Discretionary annual bonus.
  • Amazing on-site subsidised restaurant.
  • Matched pension contribution.
  • Life assurance.
  • Critical illness cover.
  • Health cash plan.
  • Private medical insurance.
  • Free access to company holiday homes and camper vans.
  • Travel season ticket loans.
  • Ride to work scheme.
  • Free local gym access.
  • Local bar / restaurant discounts.

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