Business Architect

SUMMARY:
Our client based in Isando is looking for a Business Architect with at leat 6-8 years of experience in the field, coupled with NQF Level 7 qualification in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and TOGAF Certification.

Purpose of the Role:
The Business Architect is responsible for translating business strategy into actionable capabilities and operating models that drive enterprise transformation. They define and map business capabilities, value streams, and processes to ensure alignment with strategic objectives. The role involves analyzing the current (baseline) state, designing the target state, and identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement. Business Architect is also
responsible for engaging stakeholders to capture business drivers, requirements, and constraints that shape solution design. They contribute to transformation roadmaps, ensuring initiatives are prioritized based on value, feasibility, and risk. Within innovation squads, the Business Architect provides the voice of the business, ensuring that emerging technologies and innovations directly support measurable business outcomes.

POSITION INFO:
Qualifications and Experience Required:

• Matric plus NQF Level 7 Qualification in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• TOGAF Certification
• NQF Level 8 Qualification in Enterprise Architecture, Digital Transformation, or related field
• Professional certifications in solution design or architecture (e.g., ArchiMate, AWS/Azure Solution Architect)
• IT Governance or Project Management certification (e.g., ITIL, PRINCE2)
• Working Knowledge of the Abacus EA tool
• The Business Architect is responsible for translating business strategy into clear capabilities and operating models that guide transformation.
• With 6–8 years of experience, this individual must have worked on large-scale projects in both public and private sector organizations.
• Experience in designing and delivering business capability maps, value streams, and operating models to align initiatives with enterprise strategy.
• Gap analyses between baseline and target states to identify opportunities for process improvement and innovation.
• Engaged stakeholders at executive and operational levels to capture business drivers and ensure solutions address real needs.
• Shape transformation roadmaps, prioritizing initiatives based on value, feasibility, and risk.
• Supporting Agile delivery teams and innovation squads, ensuring business perspectives guide technology adoption.
• Facilitate workshops, modelling business processes, and defining requirements for enterprise solutions.
• Balance strategic vision with operational execution.
• Proven track record of ensuring that business architecture enables measurable outcomes and supports long-term enterprise agility.
• Experience in a large-scale digital transformation, where strategy must be translated into actionable capabilities.
• Align stakeholders by creating capability maps and value streams, ensuring initiatives target the highest-value opportunities.
• Through gap analysis and roadmap design, must identify efficiencies, innovation areas, and investment priorities. This results in faster adoption of new technologies, reduced risk, and measurable alignment between business strategy and execution.

• Ensure business capabilities, value streams, and processes align with enterprise strategy and objectives.
• Define, map, and maintain the organization’s capability model to support transformation and innovation.

• Identify gaps between current and future operating models, recommending improvements and opportunities. Collaborate with development and operations teams to ensure smooth deployment and integration of solutions.
• Develop and maintain business transformation roadmaps, ensuring initiatives are prioritized by value and feasibility.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including developers, DevOps engineers, and business stakeholders, to align technical solutions with business goals.

• Ensure business architecture practices comply with enterprise principles, standards, and governance structures.

• Provide expertise and direction to development, testing, and operations teams.
• Resolve architectural or design issues during project delivery.
• Act as a subject matter expert on specific technologies and solution domains.

• Ensure business architecture practices comply with enterprise principles, standards, and governance structures.
  

• Support innovation squads and agile delivery teams by providing the “voice of the business” in technology and data-driven projects.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand needs and constraints
• Translate technical designs into business-friendly language
• Build trust by balancing business priorities with technical feasibility