The Business Architect serves as the strategic link between business vision and enterprise execution. This role is responsible for developing, governing, and continuously enhancing the organization's business architecture to ensure alignment between strategy, capabilities, processes, products, and transformation initiatives. Leveraging industry-leading frameworks and methodologies such as TOGAF, BPMN 2.0, BAGuild, eTOM, APQC, and ABPMP, the Business Architect enables business transformation by defining current and future-state architectures, identifying capability gaps, and ensuring that enterprise investments deliver measurable business value.
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Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain baseline and target-state business architectures aligned with corporate objectives and digital transformation strategies.
- Document and analyze business capabilities, value streams, business processes, information models, organizational structures, and operating models.
- Design future-state business models that enhance operational efficiency, customer experience, and business performance.
- Conduct structured gap assessments between current and target business architectures.
- Identify opportunities for capability enhancement, process optimization, operating model redesign, and business transformation.
- Define recommendations and initiatives to bridge identified gaps.
- Establish and maintain business architecture principles, standards, methodologies, and governance practices.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture frameworks, business process standards, and modeling conventions.
- Develop and maintain enterprise capability maps, value stream maps, process architectures, and business operating models.
- Partner with business leaders, product owners, project managers, and transformation teams to align initiatives with enterprise strategy.
- Facilitate workshops and strategic discussions to define business requirements and transformation priorities.
- Conduct impact analyses related to strategic, regulatory, technological, and organizational changes.
- Capture emerging business needs and translate them into architectural requirements.
- Contribute to enterprise architecture roadmaps and transformation plans.
- Mentor stakeholders on business architecture, business process management, and continuous improvement methodologies.
Required Qualifications & Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy Consulting, Business Transformation, or Management Consulting.
- Strong understanding of Enterprise Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.
- Experience with Business Process Management (BPM) methodologies and BPMN 2.0.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking capabilities.
- Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills.
- Experience working in large-scale transformation and digital initiatives.
Preferred Certifications
- TOGAF Certification
- Certified Business Architect (CBA)
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt
Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
