Business Architect

Job Description

Job Title: Business Architect

Location: Preston or any Shared Services Site. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £48,000 – £69,000 depending on experience and skills

What you’ll be doing:

• Create a Business Architecture framework which is suitable for a Data & Analytics Service to help articulate End to End business requirements and data flows across our key functions
• Create a Business Architecture Community of Practice to guide and mentor business analysts to support the generation of key business artifacts
• Create functional business process and top-level data flows which depict how our functions are meeting their Data & Analytical goals in order to create business capability roadmaps to get them to their future state operating model
• Development of a Data & Analytics benefits framework
• Development and ongoing maintenance of the D&A business architecture framework including business requirements definitions and business process standards
• Develop the business process architectures and govern the development of the business process designs providing support and guidance to the business analysts
• Perform functional decomposition of the business operating model and develop the high-level information exchange requirements which underpin key D&A requirements
• Perform business capability analysis and facilitate capability maturity management across the enterprise of D&A exploitation
• Govern & manage the architecture collateral and enforce change management policies

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Proven experience working within a business architecture background
• Experience of working within a strategy role
• Good experience of architecting & governing enterprise-wide solutions
• Honours degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Shared Services D&A Business Architecture team:

The role of the Business Architect is to develop & govern the Shared Services D&A Business Architecture Practice, specifically relating to business design, business requirements management and process design including validation & verification.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 1st January 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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