Business Architect

About Devoteam

Devoteam champions the belief that technology empowered by human values can actively foster positive change. With over 25 years of experience and presence in over 18 countries in EMEA and beyond, the company drives innovation combined with ethical principles to impact people and the world beneficially.

Culture & Values

At Devoteam, a robust organizational culture fuels innovation driven by meaningful values:

• Fairness and Courage: We ensure fair treatment and courageous decision-making to help employees develop and reward achievements.
• Ambition and Results: Entrepreneurial ambition delivering impactful, profit-driven growth focusing on client value at every interaction.
• Continuous Learning and Innovation: Cultivating curiosity to constantly adapt, innovate, and face challenges alongside excellent partnerships.
• Caring and Sharing: Promoting teamwork, collaboration, and mutual support to foster a positive and productive workplace.

Core values include respect, frankness, and passion, recognizing that success arises from collaboration.

Role Overview

The Business Architect acts as a pivotal bridge connecting business vision with enterprise implementation. This role focuses on creating, governing, and continuously refining the business architecture framework to guarantee alignment between strategy, capabilities, processes, products, and transformation programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain baseline and target business architectures aligned with corporate goals and digital transformation efforts.
• Document and analyze business capabilities, value streams, processes, information models, and organizational structures.
• Design future-state business models that improve operational efficiency, customer experience, and overall business performance.
• Perform gap analyses between current and target business architectures to identify opportunities for enhancing capabilities, optimizing processes, redesigning operating models, and driving transformation.
• Recommend initiatives to address identified gaps and drive business improvement.
• Establish and uphold business architecture principles, standards, methodologies, and governance protocols.
• Ensure adherence to enterprise architecture frameworks, process modeling standards, and actively participate in architecture governance boards.
• Create and maintain enterprise capability maps, value stream maps, process architectures, and operating models applying industry best practices and standards such as BPMN 2.0, eTOM, and APQC.
• Support ongoing process standardization and continuous improvement efforts.
• Collaborate with business leaders, product owners, project managers, and transformation teams to align initiatives with enterprise strategy and advocate for architecture-driven decisions.
• Lead workshops and strategic discussions to gather business requirements and set transformation priorities.
• Analyze impacts of strategic, technological, regulatory, and organizational changes on business capabilities, costs, risks, customer experience, and effectiveness.
• Provide insights to guide investment and transformation choices.
• Capture emerging business demands, translate them into architectural requirements, assess solution feasibility and alignment with strategy, and support business case prioritization.
• Contribute to architecture roadmaps and transformation plans, defining sequencing and success metrics while supporting change management and organizational adoption.
• Coach stakeholders on business architecture, process management, and improvement methodologies; promote maturity aligned with industry best practices and a culture of process excellence and governance.

Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related discipline; Master's degree preferred.
• At least 5 years' experience in Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, strategy consulting, business transformation, or management consulting.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks like TOGAF and business process management methodologies including BPMN 2.0.
• Familiarity with industry frameworks such as eTOM, APQC, BAGuild, and ABPMP BPM CBOK.
• Proven experience developing capability maps, value streams, process architectures, and operating models.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking abilities.
• Highly developed stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills.
• Experience engaged in large-scale digital transformation and change initiatives.

Preferred Certifications

• TOGAF Certification
• Certified Business Architect (CBA)
• ABPMP CBPP Certification
• BPMN Certification
• Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt
• Business Analysis Certifications such as CBAP or PMI-PBA advantageous

Additional Information

This role is within the Strategy & Transformation business unit and targeted at mid-senior level professionals.