Business Architect

Role Overview

Business Architect at JODAYN. This role translates organizational strategy and business priorities into structured business architecture models, capabilities, value streams, operating models, services, and transformation roadmaps.

Role Purpose

The Business Architect works closely with business and technology stakeholders to understand the current business landscape, identify capability gaps, define target-state business architecture, and ensure alignment between strategic objectives, business change initiatives, and enterprise architecture.

Key Responsibilities

Business Architecture Modeling

• Develop and maintain business architecture models covering capabilities, value streams, business services, organizational units, stakeholders, processes, information concepts, and strategic objectives.
• Assess current-state business architecture and define target-state business architecture aligned with organizational strategy and transformation priorities.
• Develop business capability maps and assess capability maturity, performance, importance, and transformation needs.
• Define and model enterprise value chains and value streams to show how value is created and delivered to customers, beneficiaries, and stakeholders.
• Analyze operating models, organizational responsibilities, business services, and cross-functional interactions.
• Support business process architecture and identify relationships between business capabilities, value streams, processes, and services.

Strategy & Alignment

• Map strategic objectives and initiatives to business capabilities, services, processes, applications, data, and transformation programs where relevant.
• Translate strategic objectives into structured business architecture and actionable transformation priorities.
• Support portfolio planning and prioritization by providing visibility into business capabilities, dependencies, and transformation impact.

Gap Analysis & Improvement

• Identify business architecture gaps, overlaps, dependencies, duplication, pain points, and improvement opportunities.
• Conduct business architecture gap analysis to drive transformation priorities.

Transformation & Roadmap Development

• Support the development of business transformation roadmaps and transition states based on prioritized capability improvements.
• Support large-scale transformation, digital transformation, enterprise architecture, or organizational improvement programs.

Stakeholder Engagement & Facilitation

• Collaborate with enterprise, data, application, technology, security, and solution architects to ensure end-to-end architectural alignment.
• Facilitate workshops and interviews with senior stakeholders, business owners, process owners, and subject matter experts.
• Engage senior business stakeholders and facilitate architecture or transformation workshops.

Governance & Communication

• Support architecture governance and evaluate proposed initiatives against business architecture principles and target-state direction.
• Contribute to enterprise architecture standards, principles, reference models, and governance practices.
• Produce clear architecture views, heatmaps, matrices, catalogs, and executive-level presentations to communicate business architecture insights.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum 8–10 years of experience in business architecture, enterprise architecture, business analysis, transformation, strategy, operating model design, or management consulting.
• At least 4–5 years of experience in a business architecture or closely related senior role.
• Demonstrated experience developing business capability maps, value streams, operating models, and current-state and target-state business architecture.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Management, or a related discipline.
• TOGAF certification is highly desirable.
• ArchiMate certification is desirable.
• Business Architecture, BPM, Lean, Six Sigma, or relevant transformation certifications are advantageous.

Skills & Competencies

• Business capability modeling.
• Value chain and value stream modeling.
• Operating model analysis.
• Business service architecture.
• Organization and stakeholder modeling.
• Business process architecture.
• Strategy-to-execution alignment.
• Business architecture gap analysis.
• Transformation roadmap development.
• Stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation.
• Architecture governance.
• Consulting, analysis, and executive communication.
• Strong strategic and analytical thinking.
• Ability to connect business strategy with operating capabilities and transformation initiatives.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to work effectively with executives, business owners, and technical teams.
• Strong consulting mindset and structured problem-solving approach.
• Ability to simplify complex business structures into clear architecture models and executive insights.

Additional Information

Preferred Frameworks, Standards & Methods

• TOGAF.
• ArchiMate.
• Business Architecture Guild and BIZBOK concepts.
• BPMN.
• Capability-based planning.
• Value stream mapping.
• Operating model design.
• Business process management and transformation methods.
• Relevant national or sector-specific enterprise architecture frameworks where applicable.

Preferred Tools

• Bizzdesign.
• Sparx Enterprise Architect.
• Orbus and iServer.
• ARIS.
• MEGA HOPEX or similar enterprise architecture platforms.
• Business process modeling and collaboration tools.