Business Architect - Leeds, Up to £45K
- Recruiter
- Simplified Recruitment
- Location
- Batley
- Salary
- Up to £45,000 per Annum
- Posted
- 28 Nov 2014
- Closes
- 29 Dec 2014
- Ref
- SR278073f1011c9
- Contact
- Simplified Recruitment
- Sectors
- IT, Networks & Systems
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Title: Business Architect - Leeds, Up to £45K
Location & Post Code: Birstall, Leeds, West Yorkshire (WF17)
Salary: Up to £45,000 per Annum + Life Assurance, Pension
A fantastic opportunity is available for a Business Architect to join the IT division in our client’s progressive Financial Services Organisation, where they will be responsible for the alignment of strategic goals and objectives. This will encompass decisions regarding products and services, partners and suppliers, organisation capabilities, and key business and IT initiatives.
This role will suit someone who has extensive experience planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives, with the ability to apply architectural principles to business solutions.
Since March 2014, they have been embarking on a programme of businesses integration, which will result in the largest independent Home Collected Credit Company in the UK. It is an exciting time for both businesses, which has created a rewarding environment for their people to showcase their talents and skills.
Benefits: Up to £45,000 per annum, 25 days holiday, 4x death in service, company pension.
Business Architect – The Role:
• Development and maintenance of business architecture strategy of various scenarios; recommending cost effective, high performing solutions; and providing leadership to the wider IT function on a wide range of areas. Contributing to business case documentation, project scope and planning documents
• Capture the tactical and strategic enterprise goals that provide traceability through the organisation and are mapped to metrics that provide on-going 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 organisational 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
• Development and management of business capability mapping, maturity of capabilities and working with others to define and deliver roadmaps in alignment to the tactical and strategic direction of the company
Business Architect – Experience Required:
• Awareness of the Business, IT Industries and marketplace from a technology, innovation and commercial perspective
• Extensive experience in at least one of the following:
I) Business Capability mapping and maturity
II) Process integration (business process integration, workflow, service orchestration)
III) ‘People’ integration (portals, collaboration, multi-channel access, web-enablement)
• A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance
• The ability to recognize structural issues within the organisation, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies
• The ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and drawings, and articulate their collective relevance to the organization
• Experience using model-based representations, such as TOGAF
• Degree or equivalent level of qualification, preferably in an IT-related discipline (Desirable)
Please apply online with your CV and covering letter.
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