Senior Business Architect

Codeninja

Role Summary

The Business Architect will define, enhance, and govern the bank s business capabilities, processes, and models to ensure alignment with strategic goals. The role acts as the bridge between Business and IT, ensuring requirements, initiatives, and projects are architecturally aligned, well-documented, and support the bank s transformation agenda.

Key Responsibilities 1. Strategy & Governance

• Contribute to the development of departmental strategy and ensure alignment during the formulation of objectives, targets, and initiatives.
• Participate in departmental budgeting and monitor performance against approved levels.
• Implement approved policies, processes, and procedures, ensuring controlled and consistent operations.

2. Business Architecture Development

• Develop business architecture artifacts, including capabilities, products, services, value streams, and processes, and map them to the IT landscape.
• Create high-level business architecture models that illustrate how workflows, systems, and processes interact.
• Evaluate BRDs, use cases, and process workflows to assess architectural impact and alignment.
• Engage stakeholders to define the target state, identify gaps, and validate architecture recommendations.
• Translate business requirements into clear, actionable architectural specifications.
• Maintain accuracy of all Business Architecture artifacts within the Enterprise Architecture (EA) tool repository.

3. Stakeholder Engagement & Alignment

• Work across Business Units, Enterprise Architecture, Data, Cybersecurity, and Risk to ensure alignment with the business architecture.
• Support domain architects by helping translate business requirements into high-level architectural design.
• Participate in architecture committees, contributing to approvals, impact assessments, and decisions.
• Collaborate throughout the project lifecycle, including RFP/RFI reviews, to ensure alignment with the business architecture.

4. Continuous Improvement & Operational Excellence

• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in business processes, systems, and architecture practices.
• Support process optimization, cost reduction, and productivity enhancement initiatives.
• Ensure day-to-day Business Architecture activities are executed in line with established policies and frameworks.

5. Reporting, Committees & Governance

• Prepare accurate and timely reports related to Business Architecture.
• Represent the Business Architecture function in internal and external committees, ensuring core topics are addressed effectively.

6. Knowledge & Expertise

• Deep understanding of banking operations and products across:
• Accounts & Deposits
• Lending
• Cards
• Payments
• Operations
• Treasury
• Finance
• Risk
• Ability to prepare and map AS-IS product/service models to TO-BE target systems.
• Maintain Business Architecture principles, standards, and guidelines specific to the banking domain.

7. Compliance & Safety

• Comply with all relevant safety, quality, and environmental policies.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.