Enterprise Business Architect – Banking Client – Brussels

Enterprise Business Architect – Banking Client – Brussels

Duration: 6-12-month contract

Rate: €800 – €900 per day

***This is a contract based in Brussels ***

• You will be joining the Enterprise Architecture department within Information and Technology Strategy division.
• The Enterprise Architecture team (EA) is a multi-disciplinary group of experienced Business and IT architects in charge of
• Defining the enterprise architecture directions & standards to allow the company to achieve its ambitions
• Translating business strategies into execution and creating business cases to develop or transform the capabilities supporting the business units’ strategies,
• Maintaining a multi-year Business/IT plan & technology roadmap, and providing steer for the decisions on IT investments,
• Defining architecture solutions (integrated process, applications, information and technology) to business problems in alignment with the enterprise architecture directions, and guiding the delivery teams during solution realization.

Role: Enterprise Business Architect – Banking Client – Brussels

• Develop a business architecture strategy based on a situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations
• Through a structured business architecture approach and methodology, highlight, document and assess my clients Business Strategies, capturing the strategic and tactical enterprise goals that provide traceability through the organisation
• Identify the state of business capabilities (from strong to non-existence) to help the Business make strategic decisions on prioritization of change initiatives in light of what is possible from both a Business and IT perspective
• Analyse, visualise and discuss the overlap, dependencies, impact and risk (business and technical) across business change initiatives on all relevant stakeholders in both Business and IT
• Address the business aspects of Architectures and Roadmaps at Group level through system analysis of primary business goals and objectives, business functions, business value, organisational units, role-players, culture, components, information, processes, locations, etc.;
• Define the data shared across the enterprise and the relationship between those data
• The business architect develops and integrates multiple dimensions, like for example,

o Business functions

o Cross-functional activities of the Enterprise

o Customers, suppliers, partners and regulators

o Time to market considerations

Experience Required: Enterprise Business Architect – Banking Client – Brussel

• A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance
• The ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies
• The ability to apply architectural principles to business solutions
• The ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and drawings, and articulate their collective relevance to the organization and to high-priority business issues
• Experience using model-based representations that can be adjusted as required to collect, aggregate or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business
• The ability to visualize and create high-level models that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture
• Experience in planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives
• Experience in modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques
• Very good communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations
• The ability to act as liaison between Business and IT
• Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus
• Strong situational analysis and decision making abilities
• At least 7 years of experience in the financial sector. Prior experience in Business Architecture or Enterprise Architecture role is required
• Knowledge of one or more of the following domains is a considerable asset: Risk, Finance, Compliance, Human Resources
• Good overall IT knowledge that allows you to assess what can or cannot easily be developed is an asset (e.g. educational background in computer science or in engineering can help)
• Fluent in English; knowledge of French or Dutch is a plus
• Flexibility to travel abroad

Please do send across to me the most up to date copy of your CV to eobiechefu@welovesalt.com

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