Business Architect

About the position

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Alignment: Translate strategic objectives into actionable business capabilities and architecture blueprints.


• Capability Mapping: Develop and maintain strategic business capability maps, value streams, and stakeholder maps.


• Governance Review Forums: Lead or contribute to forums like the Business Architecture Review Forum to ensure alignment with platform principles and strategy.


• BDLC Integration: Embed business architecture within the Business Development Lifecycle (BDLC), influencing solution design and capability reuse.


• Requirements Definition: Define high-level business requirements, target-state models, and implementation plans.


• Risk Change Management: Participate in ongoing risk assessments, change control, and post-implementation reviews.


• Training Enablement: Support internal capability building through structured training programs and academies.

Qualifications Experience:

• Minimum Qualification: Bachelor’s Degree in Sciences, Engineering, or IT.


• Preferred Qualification: Honours Degree in a related field.


• Experience: 3–5 years relevant business experience, ideally 5-10 years at specialist level.

 


Required Skills and Competencies:

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to interpret and contextualize strategy for operational needs.


• Analytical Capability: Strong skills in process analysis, capability gap identification, and transformation planning.


• Communication Influence: Skilled in stakeholder engagement, governance forums, and cross-functional collaboration.


• Framework Proficiency: Familiarity with TOGAF, ArchiMate, BIAN, and enterprise architecture principles.


• Tooling Knowledge: Experience with Confluence, JIRA, and business architecture tooling options.

 



Trade Finance knowledge is favourable considering we are recruiting specifically the Trade and Working Capital portfolio.

• Experience in Trade Finance and Payments projects.


• Hands-on experience with Payments and Trade systems such as EFT, RTGS, Swift,


• Calypso, RIVO, DOKA, Tiplus, eTradeport, etc. and vendor management, including working with vendors like Surecomp.


• Strong understanding of Structured Trade and Commodity Finance (STCF) specialising in cross-border financing for the trade of goods and commodities.


• Solid understanding of Payments and Trade products and services, including


• Domestic Payments, Cross-Border Payments, Letters of Credit, Foreign Bills of Collection, and Trade Guarantees, etc.

Desired Skills:

• Systems Analysis
• Complex Problem Solving
• Programming/configuration
• Critical Thinking
• Time Management