Business Architecture Modeller
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As part of the mobilisation team and architecture working group, you will collaborate with enterprise and domain architects, delivery teams and business stakeholders to develop and maintain architecture models and the associated model views and dashboards that support organisational decisions, solution design and delivery assurance. You will be responsible for keeping the enterprise architecture repository accurate and up to date, ensuring traceability from strategic goals and capabilities through to the business layer elements including processes, roles, systems, and information components. Modelling scope may range from the enterprise strategic level, looking across multiple organisations as is typical for a major UK infrastructure project, down to capability level architectures to enable controlled change of the organisational baseline as we move through the difference phases of the project., You will be responsible for developing and maintaining business architecture models and artefacts according to agreed processes and standards. Additionally, you will be responsible for actively engaging with stakeholders to translate their understanding and decisions into models, and in turn using models to provide insights for stakeholders to inform decision-making. More specific responsibilities will include:
- Maintaining the architecture landscape, ensuring models are accurate, consistent, version controlled and aligned to agreed standards and modelling conventions
- Developing and update model views to address stakeholder concerns and support strategic planning and investment prioritisation, including business capability models, value streams and various operating model views
- Producing architecture viewpoints and packs for governance forums (e.g. Architecture Review Board), communicating complex information clearly for both technical and non technical audiences at all levels of seniority
- Working with solution and data architects and delivery teams to ensure solutions are explicitly traceable to business needs
- Supporting option assessment by modelling candidate architectures to show impacts, risks and trade offs
- Maintaining architecture plateaus, roadmaps, and heatmaps to enable planning and sequencing of change
- Translating information from project documentation (e.g. target operating model documents) and architecture models, and identifying issues regarding inconsistency or ambiguity
- Defining and enforcing modelling standards, meta model compliance and quality checks; coaching contributors to improve consistency and reuse across the repository
- Producing clear documentation (catalogues, diagrams, patterns, principles, rationale) and maintaining links between requirements, decisions, risks and architecture artefacts for auditability
- Identifying and documenting organisational requirements and constraints, and ensuring adherence to these in the model and in architectural decisions
Requirements
This role suits an experienced business architecture practitioner who is highly structured, detail oriented and confident engaging a wide range of stakeholders. You will need to be comfortable working with and helping to refine our frameworks and guidelines (generally based on TOGAF/ArchiMate). You will be expected to expert in translating ambiguity into clear models, and will need to be able to operate in a regulated, security conscious environment and be an exemplar for good information management practices and controlled governance.
You will provide modelling expertise aligned to GBE N priorities, working flexibly under the direction of the Lead Business Architect. Work will be prioritised collaboratively and may evolve as organisational capabilities mature, new programmes initiate and delivery teams require architecture input and assurance., As a modeller, you will need to demonstrate excellent familiarity and experience with the following standards and tools, and be able to advise on best practice and implement models through their use:
- ArchiMate (essential)
- Bizzdesign (essential)
- TOGAF (essential)
- BIZBOK (desired)
- BPMN (desired)
More generally, you need to evidence the following capabilities:
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, able to organise workshops, elicit information, resolve inconsistencies and translate discussions into clear, usable models
- Demonstrable experience in business architecture modelling, business analysis or a related discipline, with significant hands on modelling in the ArchiMate business layer
- Strong working knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks and methods (including TOGAF) and the ability to apply them pragmatically and advise on best practice implementation
- Experience using enterprise architecture tools/repositories (including Bizzdesign) and maintaining architecture repository quality
- Ability to develop and maintain value streams, capability maps, and structural and behavioural business views
- Working with existing documentation and engaging with stakeholders to map processes and capture relevant details in architecture and/or process models
- High attention to detail and disciplined approach to documentation, versioning and governance in a regulated and/or security conscious environment
- Strong written and visual communication skills, able to produce clear diagrams, viewpoints and narrative for a variety of stakeholders to support governance and delivery
- Ability to work collaboratively across teams and priorities, balancing thoroughness, pace and pragmatism in an evolving environment where requirements may change, while navigating potential ambiguity and uncertainty
- Eligible for BPSS clearance as a minimum; SC clearance (or willingness/eligibility to obtain) is desirable depending on assignment
Desirable attributes
- TOGAF certification (Practitioner or higher)
- ArchiMate certification
- Experience working in complex, regulated environments (e.g., energy, nuclear, defence, public sector) with strong governance and assurance needs
- Experience working in large scale enterprises, e.g. multinational companies, major infrastructure projects
- Experience working with and/or developing target operating models