Enterprise Business Architect

29 نوفمبر، 2022

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Enterprise Business Architect | Enterprise IT | Dubai

Overview of the role

The Business Architect plays a key role in leading the transformation of the business and ensuring critical deliverables, such as business capability models, business capabilities, and value streams, are developed and implemented.

This person aligns strategic goals and objectives with decisions regarding products and services; partners and suppliers; organization; capabilities; and key business and IT initiatives.

The primary focus is the business motivations, business operations and business analysis frameworks and related networks that link these aspects of the enterprise together.

The Business Architect works to develop an integrated view of the Al Futtaim Group using a repeatable approach, cohesive framework, and available industry standard techniques.

To contribute to the design and development of the Architecture Framework and Enterprise Target Architecture (ETA) in line with the Architecture Principles ensuring it supports Al-Futtaim Group’s EIT strategic direction.

What you will do

Develop a business architecture strategy based on a situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations
Apply a structured business architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views of the enterprise
Capture the tactical and strategic enterprise goals that provide traceability through the organization and are mapped to metrics that provide ongoing 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 organizational 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
Drive the application rationalisation programme by developing a composable business architecture and assigning the corresponding capabilities.
Contribute to the design and development of Enterprise Target Architecture (ETA) in the context of Business & IT strategy and recommend capability increments for EIT transformational plans.
Contribute to the maintenance of the Architecture Principles.
Manage the EA tool/repository to ensure that capabilities & applications are captured along with their lifecycle and maturity
Define the data shared across the enterprise and the relationships between those data.
Capture the relationships among roles, capabilities and business units, the decomposition of those business units into subunits, and the internal or external management of those units.

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Required skills to be successful

A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes, and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance
Ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies
The ability to apply architectural principles to business solutions
The ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and drawings, and articulate their collective relevance to the organization and to high-priority business issues

What equips you for the role

Degree in Computer Science/IT/similar with preferred education in Business Management (e.g. MBA)
Preferred Certifications: TOGAF, CBA
Minimum 10 years Business Architecture experience
Knowledge on EA tools, e.g. ARIS, Orbus, SPARX EA, Abacus, Archi
Experience using model-based representations that can be adjusted as required to collect, aggregate or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business
The ability to visualize and create high-level models that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture
Extensive experience planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives
Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques
Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communication as well as visualizations.