Business Architect

KBR is seeking a highly skilled Business Architect to join our team. As a Business Architect, you will play a critical role in assisting the Senior Business Architect with applying a structured business architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views and needs of the enterprise.

• Apply a structured business architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views and needs of the enterprise to capture, define, optimise, lean, and deploy as workflows the Sellafield project management business processes.
• Describe and capture the Sellafield project management functions, capabilities, services, and processes to identify and describe systems and information that interact with the business, and describe which people, data and technology are involved in the processes.
• Collect, understand, and document the functional and non-functional requirements for change initiatives and translate them into user stories, ensuring they are well defined and ready for development in line with sprint planning.
• Support the analysis of new product developments with other architects.
• Work in close collaboration with the relevant stakeholders to gain approval and prioritisation for identified initiatives and change proposals.
• Identify and communicate to relevant stakeholders the impact of planned initiatives on their processes, resources, technology, and governance structures.
• Model the as-is and to-be project management processes in an enterprise architecture toolset.
• Analyse and interpret data and information from several sources to support clients in decision making and unlocking the value in data.
• Support the development of information systems and technology architecture.

• The ability to understand business change needs and assess the business impact of those changes by driving the identification of requirements across business units.
• The ability to visualise and create models that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with experience of continuous stakeholder collaboration to gather and refine business requirements as well as keeping the stakeholder at the heart of design and development, implementation, and transition phases of transformation initiatives.
• Determine and develop user stories for services/systems in production to ensure maximum usability.
• Experience in developing target operating models and identifying opportunities for development in current business models.
• Be familiar with TOGAF and how general business architecture can drive and affect change with support of frameworks and models.
• The ability to apply TOGAF or another enterprise architecture framework to business solutions.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the business; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualisations.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to define and resolve problems methodically and logically.

• Intelligent Business Process Management tools, such as PEGA, Power Automate or similar.
• Delivery with agile methods, such as SCRUM, and a DevOps environment.
• Exposure to complex data environments.
• Integration and/or business process management systems.
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture toolsets, such as MooD Etc.
• Experience understanding and analysing information relating to complex programmes, such as risks, dependencies, issues, and benefits.
• Strategic-level thinking, able to define and influence strategic decisions.
• Carrying out training sessions and workshops to guide relevant teams.
• Experience of Low Code systems design and implementation.

• Essential: Technical Honours Degree, or equivalent
• Desirable: IT/CIS Honours Degree or Equivalent
• Essential: Chartered Engineer, or equivalent
• Desirable: Seeking Certified Architect, or equivalent/seeking Certified Project Manager, or equivalent / Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or equivalent