Business Architect - Riyadh - Full time

Business Architect is responsible for leading the transformation of a business and ensuring critical deliverables, such as business capability models, business capabilities, and value streams, are developed and implemented. The business architect interprets and develops the strategy for the operational needs of an organization and designs an effective IT architecture for business process management. The architect fleshes out business capability maps and value streams to link strategy and execution and helps reorganize and restructure the IT enablement process.

Business architect roles demand developing or contributing to key deliverables like strategy summary, operating, and business model analysis, business entities, organization mapping, systems mapping, system footprint analysis, etc.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and design a business architecture strategy based on carefully scrutinizing various business scenarios and motivations.
• Capturing the vital views of the organization through a structured business architecture approach.
• Illustrate the main business functions of the company and identify functions that are customer-facing or supplier-related or pertaining to business execution and management.
• Identify strategic business goals that can be traced through the organization and mapped for ongoing governance.
• Describe strategic, core, and support processes that stretch beyond functional and organizational boundaries.
• Define external entities like customers, suppliers, and external systems related to the enterprise.
• Describe the workforce, resources, and controls engaged in the processes.
• Define data shared across the business and their interrelation.
• Establish how roles, capabilities, and business units are related, and decompose those business units into corresponding subunits.
• Conduct strategic studies for newly requested services and define the positioning of the new services within the current organization's capabilities and applications portfolio.

Competencies

• Experience in e-government solutions.
• 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 link and incorporate disjoint documents and drawings and project their relevance to the enterprise and top-priority business matters.
• Relevant expertise in using model-based representations to collect, aggregate, or disaggregate complex business information as required.
• The ability to conceptualize and design high-level models that can help in future analysis to remodel the business architecture.
• Relevant experience in planning and deploying IT initiatives.
• Experience in creating business processes with the aid of various tools and techniques.
• Exceptional liaison abilities to convey information needs of the business to the IT team and data constraints to the business.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in the same or similar role.
• Candidates must be located in Saudi Arabia.
• Saudi Nationals are preferred.