Director – Business Architecture Lead recruitment

You will be working on one of the banks top strategic programmes, forming part of a wide Reference Data initiative. You will play a key strategic part in the shaping the programme, engaging with senior stakeholders from Front to Back office.

THE ROLE INVOLVES:

Business Architect Lead will be responsible for running the day-to-day activities relating to the design of the Reference Data Utility Architecture, specifically the management and supervision of the Business Architect Team in the delivery of the target process model design and the target data architecture design.  Key deliverables include:

• Develop the business architecture agenda and resource plans to support the program

• Develop and own the business architecture strategy for Reference Data

• Direct the work of the process architects and data architects

• Coordinate with IT architecture team for the design of the application landscape

• Manage and chair the Design Authority meetings as well as communicate and coordinate with other Design Authority forums

• Manage and lead the resolution of the design issues

• Ensure that effective design review processes are developed, design reviews are conducted and that lessons improve future designs

• Contribute to the design of the overall business architecture strategy for Reference Data Program

• Align business architecture deliverables with overall implementation plans

• Contribute to the development of business architecture standards and design principles

• Contribute to the development of the solution 

• Review business requirements and functional specifications 

• Articulate and convey the business architecture solution to stakeholders (FO/BO)

• Understand how business and IT strategies align for the program

• Escalate project issues and risks on a timely basis

• Contribute to bank-wide architecture governance

• Ensure that business architecture artefacts are socialized, agreed and sanctioned by all stakeholders

• Contribute to the development and growth of the business architecture function at CS

• Contribute to the integrated architecture design of the highly inter-related Client Onboarding/ Client Ref Data programs 

TO QUALIFY, YOU MUST POSSESS:

Essential

•  Deep knowledge of business architecture function

• Implementation experience in the design of business process models and business semantic data models

• Solid knowledge of project methodology and project implementation experience in financial services industry

• Experience in coordinating the resolution of cross-divisional design issues

• Experience in supporting the definition of a multi-year phased delivery roadmap

• Excellent analytical and documentation skills

• Experience of managing multi-disciplinary teams

• Strong negotiation and influencing skills

• Understanding of the importance of data quality and governance

• Experience in achieving results in a project context using resources that do not report directly to them

• Solid knowledge of IT, including experience of managing IT-oriented projects

• Good understanding of IT oriented methods and approaches

• Proven decision making and critical thinking skills

• Extremely strong organisational skills

• Excellent relationship and interpersonal skills

• Good knowledge of standard office software applications (e.g., Microsoft PowerPoint)

Desirable

• Knowledge of Legal Agreement, Credit, Collateral or Client or Product Reference Data front to back

• Knowledge of the banking regulatory environment