About this role
- Experience & Background The successful candidate will typically have: Significant experience in Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Transformation, Operating Model Design, or Management Consulting.
- Experience operating at enterprise level within large, complex organisations.
- A strong track record of translating business strategy into practical transformation programmes and roadmaps.
- Experience designing business capability models, value streams, target operating models, and organisational architectures.
- Experience working across major digital, technology, process, or organisational transformation programmes.
- Strong experience engaging and influencing senior executives and business leaders.
- Experience facilitating complex strategic discussions and executive workshops.
- An understanding of the relationship between business, data, application, and technology architecture.
- Experience working across multiple functions, geographies, or business units would be advantageous.
Job Description
The Principal Business Architect is a senior strategic role responsible for translating business strategy into clear, actionable operating models, capabilities, processes, and transformation roadmaps. Working across business and technology functions, the role provides the architectural leadership required to ensure that transformation initiatives are aligned to strategic objectives, deliver measurable business value, and create sustainable organisational capabilities. The Principal Business Architect acts as a trusted adviser to senior stakeholders, providing an enterprise-wide perspective and helping leaders understand the implications of strategic decisions across people, process, technology, data, governance, and organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Translate business strategy and strategic priorities into target business architectures and transformation roadmaps.
- Develop and maintain business capability models, value streams, operating models, organisational models, and business architecture principles.
- Assess current-state capabilities and define clear target-state architectures.
- Identify capability gaps, dependencies, risks, and opportunities across complex transformation portfolios.
- Ensure business architecture supports long-term organisational strategy rather than individual projects or technology solutions.
- Job Description - Grade Specific Business Architect Director Work as a chieforlead business architect and engagement lead in an architecture capacity designing, implementing and running complex solutions.
- Acknowledged internally and externally as a thought leader and perceived as a role model in the community, can operate effectively at the highest levels within national and multi national organizations.
- Certification: preferably Capgemini Architects certification level 3 or above, IAF and TOGAF 9 or equivalent.