Business Strategy & Architecture Analyst
London - UK
Reporting to Head of Business Architecture, as part of the Global Transformation and Change Delivery team, your focus will be providing insight and analyst support for the wider team.You will develop a detailed understanding of the organization’s transformation strategy and supporting business capabilities and architecture.
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What will your essential responsibilities include?
Delivery / Activities
1. Strategy and business analysis in support of the development of Business Architecture reference models
2. Working with the business, operations and technology stakeholders to help develop and update the enterprise views to represent ‘what’ the business does
3. Assist with the assessments and mapping of business capabilities and value streams to end to end processes, information and supporting technologies
4. Develop an understanding of existing architecture landscape, across multiple domains, including process and technology
5. Understand current customer, partner and employee journeys, associated pain points and challenges
6. Manage and maintain a business architecture knowledge base, key artefacts including the Business Architecture Playbook and architecture models
7. Act as a representative of the Business Architecture team, providing insight and education on what the capability does and its value to wider business
You will report to Head of Business Architecture.
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We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:
Required Skills and Abilities:
8. A desire to develop skills and experience in Business Architecture and Strategy Execution
9. Developed analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience of having successfully fulfilled an analyst role within a transformation and change role (in an organization change function or consulting role)
10. Experience of having worked as analyst covering some of the domains: process, organization design, technology or data and/or delivery experience having been a key member of a project design and/or delivery team (ideally within both Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies)
11. Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a background of working across Business and Technology stakeholder groups
12. Ability to plan and run virtual and face to face workshops with multiple stakeholder teams
Desired Skills and Abilities:
13. Experience of working within a similar associate business architecture role, or senior business or strategy analyst role.
14. Robust understanding of business capabilities and value streams and experience of having worded on similar model in other organizations
15. Used to working within a matrix organization structure, across global cross-functional teams with a focus on proactive communication and management of multiple stakeholders
16. Qualifications in one of the execution domains; business architecture ( Business Architecture Guild, CBA), process ( Business Analyst, Six Sigma, BPMN) or Technology ( TOGAF)
17. Communication, persuasion and advocacy with excellent listening, spoken and written messaging appropriate for all levels of the organization
18. Experience in developing clear messaging and visualization: using tools such as PowerPoint, Excel and Visio
Attitude / Behaviors:
19. Having a passion for learning and developing skills and experience within business architecture function
20. Open-minded, humble and trustworthy
21. Business outcome and results driven mindset
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