Business Architect

Role Overview

This role is responsible for leading the creation and upkeep of business architecture artifacts that integrate GTA's strategy with capabilities, value streams, services, processes, and organizational roles. It aims to support investment decisions, transformation priorities, and alignment across the Enterprise Architecture framework.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and update business capability maps, value streams, business service catalogs, and related architecture views.
• Interpret strategic goals, stakeholder requirements, and operating model changes into actionable business architecture needs and roadmaps.
• Maintain linkages across strategy, capabilities, services, processes, applications, and initiatives within the EA repository.
• Collaborate with business owners and analysts to verify current and future state models, identifying gaps, dependencies, and priorities.
• Assist enterprise transformation efforts, making informed portfolio decisions and assessing impacts with clear architectural insights.
• Ensure adherence to EA governance, modeling standards, and quality control; participate in Architecture Review Boards as needed.
• Lead workshops and effectively communicate architecture outcomes to both business and technology stakeholders.
• Contribute to the development of EA frameworks, reference models, principles, KPIs, and ongoing enhancement activities.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum 5 years in business architecture, enterprise architecture, business transformation, operating model design, or equivalent fields.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Engineering, Computer Science, or similar discipline.
• TOGAF certification is mandatory or highly recommended; additional certifications such as Business Architecture Guild (CBA), ArchiMate, BPMN, CBAP, or Lean Six Sigma are beneficial.
• Preferably experienced in government, tax, financial services sectors, or other large complex organizations.

Language Requirements

• Native Arabic speaker.
• Proficient in Business English.

Skills and Knowledge

• Strong practical understanding of TOGAF and business architecture including capability-based planning and value stream mapping.
• Expertise in modeling and analyzing business capabilities, services, processes, information flows, stakeholders, and organizational relations.
• Familiarity with ArchiMate and BPMN modeling standards; experience with EA or process-modeling tools preferred.
• Excellent facilitation, analytical writing, stakeholder engagement, and presentation capabilities.
• Ability to translate complex business data into concise, actionable architecture views.
• Proven track record in creating Business Architecture Diagrams utilizing EA software such as Orbus Infinity, Bizzdesign, or SAP.

Expected Deliverables

• Comprehensive business capability maps accompanied by maturity evaluations.
• Detailed value streams and catalogs of business services.
• Documented current and future state business architecture perspectives.
• Traceability matrices linking capabilities to processes, services, and applications.
• Gap analyses, roadmaps, and impact assessments related to business architecture.