Managing Director, Business Architecture Executive recruitment

Managing Director - Business Architecture Executive
JP Morgan Worldwide Securities Services (WSS) is a premier securities servicing provider that helps institutional investors, alternative asset managers, broker dealers and equity issuers optimize efficiency, mitigate risk and enhance revenue. A division of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., WSS leverages the firm's unparalleled scale, leading technology and deep industry expertise to service investments and provide outsourcing solutions around the world.

The Business Architecture Executive will be responsible to translate business and functional strategy and plans into domain-specific capabilities and business solutions necessary to deliver the strategy.
They will focus on providing a wide area of process expertise to all levels within the organization to improve WSS effectiveness, efficiency and customer centricity. This will be accomplished by challenging status quo, identifying improvement opportunities, building functional models, operational business architectures, and various enterprise architecture models that link business and technology concepts. The candidate will work collaboratively with business and technology leaders, program and project managers, process owners and a variety of subject matter experts within and across organizational boundaries.Responsibilities:Develop a business architecture strategy applying a structured approach and methodology for capturing key views of the organizationOwnership of: The business service/data standard definitions and governanceOngoing impact assessment on business service and operating models resulting from new product development and regulatory changeCross platform business architecture decisionsProvide leadership in defining and designing end to end organizational business modelsCreate and maintain business solution design documentationCreate written and oral communications that effectively summarize findings, supports fact-based recommendations and provides appropriate detail to substantiate conclusions and drive decisions.Partnership between business and technology -- work with IT architecture to align Technical and Business architecture.Provide cross-functional business process views at an organizational levelProvide Business Architecture and Solution Design expertise and support for PMO IT projectsMentor peers in Business Architecture / Modeling tools techniques.

Qualifications
Successful Candidate Requirements:
10-15 years of progressive industry experience as a seasoned business executive leading a world-class team with a demonstrated track record of business growth
Experience managing a global business, including all aspects of financial management
Prior experience leading the client facing technology product management teams encompassing product strategy and business product development
A track record of defining and successful delivery of new solutions to meet clients needs from concept to launch and rollout
Current understanding and ongoing interest in latest innovations and technology solutions within the industry
Client focus and understanding the needs of our key client segments (Asset Gatherers, Pensions, Insurance, Broker Dealers)
Strong team leadership skills with experience leading and influencing virtual teams comprised of technology, business and third party entities across regions.
Ability to hire and cultivate top talent
Excellent cross-functional collaboration and relationship building skills.
Superior written and presentation communication skills with emphasis on sales and executive presentations.
Execution orientated and results driven
Other Key Competences include: change management, coaching, strategic leadership, consultancy, delegation
An undergraduate degree is required. Advanced degree or MBA are strongly preferred