Manager Business Architect

Role Overview

Manager Business Architect at Du. The role is based in Du's location.

Role Purpose

To lead structured requirement gathering, documentation, and management for Capex initiatives, ensuring business objectives are translated into clear, measurable, and delivery-ready requirements while maintaining scope integrity throughout the project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

Requirement Discovery & Clarification

• Lead structured requirement gathering with Business, Product, Operations, and IT stakeholders for Capex initiatives.
• Translate high-level business objectives and investment cases into detailed functional and non-functional requirements.
• Challenge ambiguity, assumptions, and incomplete inputs to ensure requirements are clear, measurable, and outcome-driven.

Requirement Detailing & Documentation

• Own the creation and maintenance of high-quality requirement artefacts (BRDs, epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria).
• Ensure requirements are implementation-agnostic, focused on what is needed rather than how it is built.
• Ensure traceability between business objectives, requirements, and delivery scope throughout the lifecycle.

Demand Shaping & Execution Readiness

• Partner with Project Owners to shape Capex initiatives into delivery-ready demand with defined scope, priorities, and dependencies.
• Ensure all demands meet entry criteria for estimation, planning, and funding approval.
• Support backlog refinement and PI/phase readiness by ensuring sufficient requirement maturity.

Scope Integrity & Change Control

• Act as a guardian of requirement scope once Capex initiatives are approved.
• Assess impact of requirement changes on scope, timelines, capacity, and cost in collaboration with Demand and Delivery teams.
• Support Change Control Boards (CCBs) with clear articulation of requirement changes and business rationale.

Stakeholder Management & Communication

• Act as the single point of accountability for requirement clarity for assigned Capex initiatives.
• Facilitate requirement walkthroughs, refinement sessions, and alignment workshops.
• Ensure consistent understanding of scope across Business, IT, and vendor teams.

Qualifications & Experience

Education

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Information Services, or Computer Science.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, IT, or Business.
• Master's degree is a plus.

Certifications

• Certifications in Project Management and Agile Methodologies are required.
• CBAP or equivalent is a plus.

Experience

• 8–12 years of experience in requirement management, business analysis, or product ownership roles.
• Proven experience supporting large Capex-funded programs.
• Experience working with multi-vendor delivery environments.
• Experience in large telecom or enterprise IT environments (BSS/OSS preferred).

Skills & Competencies

• Strong requirement elicitation, analysis, and documentation skills.
• Ability to structure complex problem statements into clear requirements.
• Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management capabilities.
• High attention to detail with strong scope discipline.
• Solid understanding of Agile and Waterfall delivery lifecycles from a requirements perspective.
• Familiarity with backlog refinement, PI planning inputs, and UAT processes.
• Proficient with Jira, Confluence, and requirements traceability practices.

Additional Information

Success Measures

• Deliver Capex initiatives entering delivery with clear, stable, and complete requirements.
• Reduce rework, clarifications, and scope churn during execution.
• Improve estimation accuracy and delivery predictability.
• Achieve higher Business satisfaction with requirement clarity and outcomes.