Business Architect

About the role

SQLI, a European leader in customer experience and digital transformation, is recruiting an experienced Business Architect for a major business transformation program in a complex international environment. The role shapes and evolves business architecture capabilities, aligning business strategy, operating models, processes, capabilities and technology landscapes, and acts as a key link between business and technology stakeholders.

Key responsibilities

• Define, maintain and evolve business capability models across business domains, and establish governance standards including taxonomy, hierarchy, naming conventions and model consistency.
• Analyse business needs and translate them into capabilities, target operating models and transformation initiatives.
• Develop capability hierarchies and relationships, and run capability assessments, gap analyses, dependency mapping, overlap identification and impact evaluations.
• Map capabilities to processes, applications, value streams, organisational structures and operating models, and support their harmonisation.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture teams and contribute to business architecture methodologies, operating models and governance frameworks.
• Facilitate workshops with business and technology stakeholders and act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders.
• Produce architecture artefacts and documentation using industry-standard tools, primarily LeanIX.

Required profile

• Significant experience in Business Architecture, Business Transformation, Enterprise Architecture or a closely related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience governing and evolving business capability models in large, complex organisations.
• Strong understanding of the links between capabilities, processes, value streams, operating models, applications and organisational structures.
• Excellent stakeholder management, workshop facilitation and communication skills, including with senior leadership.
• Fluent English is essential.
• Experience supporting large-scale transformation or operating model change is highly desirable.

Required skills

• Expertise in business capability modelling and business architecture frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with LeanIX for capability modelling, application portfolio management or enterprise architecture.
• Good understanding of business process management; experience with Signavio is a strong advantage.

What we offer

• Permanent contract with a hybrid policy (one day in the office).
• Competitive salary and flexible remuneration (meal vouchers, kindergarten, public transport/mobility).
• Private health insurance including dental care.
• Access to online learning and a yearly training and certification budget.
• Monday to Friday schedule, with flexible hours, shorter Fridays and a summer schedule.