Senior Manager, Business Architecture
The Position:
The holder of the role
will be responsible for developing and maintaining business capabilities of the
enterprise in line with the corporate strategy as well as contributing to the
business strategy and plans. Lead IT business process architecture (information
and process design, modeling, mapping, documentation, improvement and\or enhancement)
of all IT Systems in use by the Bank. Participate in IT System(s) procurement,
development, implementation, and review to ensure that Business Process
Architecture standards and methods are applied in line with Bank policy and
best practice.
Key Responsibilities:
- Elicit
business requirements using interviews, analysis, requirements workshops,
surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios,
business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
- Translates
strategic initiatives into delivery-focused change initiatives, while
translating business processes and issues into effective conceptual and
logical models.
- Liaise
with the Business subject matter experts in the development of business
architectural framework developing a clear roadmap of Business solutions.
- Lead
effort to work with business leaders to identify business capability needs
and IT integration.
- Facilitate
the identification and analysis of the Bank’s business drivers to deliver
enterprise business, information, technical and solution architecture
requirements.
- Function
as a liaison to Business and IT partners in order to gain a broad
understanding of industry trends and innovations, and their impact on
technology.
- Provide
an analysis to determine best path for solving business problems/opportunities
that may include process improvement visa Vis information technology
systems enhancement.
- Provide
architectural oversight of projects and ensure that requirements are in
alignment with business strategies and business architecture roadmap/framework.
- Build
and maintain repository for deliverables, methodologies, and business
development documents.
- Independently
facilitate discussions with groups of diverse stakeholders and manage the
flow of conversation while driving to meet business objectives.
- Manage
conflict among diverse cross portfolio stakeholders related to competing
interests and business requirements. Able to help stakeholders objectively
examine real needs versus wants and ways to collaborate to achieve win/win
resolutions.
- Leverages
business capabilities as a platform for illustrating the link between
business needs with decisions to their technology, solution, business and
information architecture efforts.
The Person:
For the above position,
the successful applicant should have the following:
- BSc.
Information Technology / Computer Science / Telecommunications /
Engineering / (Electrical, Electronic) or related field
- Have
a minimum of 10 years’ experience in Technology with at least 7 years’
experience in in at least two IT disciplines such as (business
architecture, application architecture, application development), at least
5 years’ experience in database management systems and at least 3 years’
experience working in a leading formal enterprise architecture framework.
- Exposure
to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
- Excellent
understanding of software delivery processes and methodologies (i.e.
waterfall, agile, hybrid).
- Exceptional
interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.
- Excellent
planning and organizational skills with ability to breakdown complex items
to actionable elements.
- Knowledge
of all components of holistic enterprise architecture.
- Familiarity
with graphical modeling approaches, tools and model repositories.
- Ability
to balance the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term implications on
individual components and projects.
- Ability
to liaise with all levels of management and subject matter experts across
the industry and within the organization to drive adoption of Business
Architecture.
- Highly
developed soft skills, such as listening, empathy, and the ability to
adjust communication style based on the audience.
- Strong
teamwork and facilitation skills.
How to Apply
The above position is
demanding role for which the Bank will provide a competitive remuneration
package to the successful candidate. If you believe you can clearly demonstrate
your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please log in to our Recruitment
portal and submit your application with a detailed CV.
To be considered your
application must be received by Friday 2nd December
2022.
Qualified candidates with
disability are encouraged to apply.
Only short-listed
candidates will be contacted.