Full-Time, Luton, UK-Hybrid Work
Summary of Role
As a business architect you will work internally and with key partners across the Insurance market making sure our capabilities and architecture work end-to-end. You will play a key role as a business design expert and innovative thinker with a strong practical focus. Working at a macro to mid-level you will innovate business model designs to create value for Interpham and influence the shape and focus of change initiatives to support strategic goals.
You will also develop and maintain business capabilities across Interpham in line with the company strategy. You will contribute to the development of business strategy and plans, assessing projects in line with the architectural framework and making recommendations to optimise business and customer value through change approaches. You will establish principles and governing policies, and use this to develop capabilities and recommendations for change.
This is a hands-on role and will require the creation and maintenance of key Business Architecture artefacts including business models, business process maps and capability definitions.
Responsibilities
Business Design
The Business Architect plays a key role in ensuring ‘architectural thinking’ is embedded across the business. Working closely with the technical and solutions architect they use all architectural artefacts (process, capabilities, data, systems etc) to identify synergies and optimise value through change design:
Develop business design models based on a situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations, including the creation of customer journeys and value maps.
Apply a structured business design approach and methodology for capturing the high-level views of the business unit and customer needs in the context of the strategic goals.
Pull together disconnected documentation and drawings and articulate their relevance to the organisation and to high level business issues through analysis, making design recommendations to drive maximum value.
Identify structural issues within the organisation, functional dependencies and cross-silo redundancies, and design better ways of working.
Act as a bridge between the business and IT, translating business requirements to IT and understand and manage data conflicts with the business.
Assess proposed projects/business problems against architectural blueprints to optimise both business and customer value and ensure architectural alignment is maintained.
Work closely with Technology to align technical solutions with business needs.
Deliver high-level design approaches to address business problems in line with the business architecture.
Support the development of business cases and benefit qualification, ensuring strategic fit and clear drivers
Reference Architecture
Develop a business architecture strategy based on a situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations
Maintain and develop the business capability reference model, mapping capability functionality to other architectural artefacts e.g. data architecture, application architecture
Keep business architecture alive and current as a body of knowledge
Assess current capability maturity and promote activities to develop capabilities and close gaps e.g. local action plans in place owned by business units
Engage at project level to communicate the architecture and promote the project’s alignment with it
Translate strategic initiatives into delivery focussed change initiatives
Explore efficiency/effectiveness and value add opportunities through interrogation of the business architecture and the change portfolio and use this to inform strategic planning processes
Stakeholder management and Influencing
Build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships internally and externally at all levels, and influence the approach to how the both Velonetic and the Market approach change
Demonstrate a solid understanding of the business challenges Velonetic faces, the drivers for change and use this to design and recommend new ways of working
Be recognised as a key contributor to business transformation and embedding of the business architecture
Skills
Ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected information and articulate their collective relevance
Ability to diagnose structural issues within the organisation and formulate recommendation to redress
Ability to create high level models and information rich diagrams to drive business improvement
Ability to listen to and resolve customer issues whilst preserving positive relationships
Excellent presentation, interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to relay information clearly and concisely in both written and verbal communications to both internal and external stakeholders
Good people skills in frequently creating and maintaining relationships with various types of individuals within the business and at different levels
Ability to influence change in a positive manner across all levels of the organisation
Ability to use all Microsoft packages as an advanced user
Experience
Sound understanding of Business Architecture principles
Experience of developing business strategies and translating them into actionable plans
Senior business analyst background with experience in designing business solutions in line with blueprints and target operating models
Demonstrable experience of applying design thinking
Organisational design
Experience developing, visualizing and utilising high level models as required to collect, aggregate or disaggregate complex and conflicting information and provide analysis to create a better future state
Experience across multiple functions, particularly in areas of product development and automation
Proven experience in operating at both a strategic and tactical level
Investment In Training and Development
We offer a comprehensive range of training and career development opportunities, a structured induction programme, tailored job training as well as mentoring and support for relevant sponsored professional qualifications. We’re developing an environment where people can grow and harness their careers and skills to be the best that they can be to focus on the long term.
About Interpham Consulting
Interpham Consulting is a front-runner in partnering with small and medium scale businesses to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The team is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organisation of team members who share common goals and values. Interpham Consulting is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fuelled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering, and platforms.
Sponsorship
This role offers sponsorship visa, so applicants from outside the UK are welcome to apply as well.
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