NatWest Group
About the Role:
This Business Architect role provides a fantastic opportunity to collaborate with key business stakeholders, creating a wide network across the bank. You will define the intentional architecture for your assigned scope, ensuring the business operating model and its aligned business capabilities support enterprise strategy.
Key Responsibilities:
- Defining, creating, and maintaining business architect models, roadmaps, and outcomes, aligning with higher-level models.
- Analysing business strategy and the wider business environment, identifying long-term business capabilities and translating them into business and customer outcomes.
- Gaining agreement and buy-in among key stakeholders through exceptional communication skills.
- Coordinating business design and aligning it with platform teams.
- Influencing business strategy development, identifying transformational opportunities.
- Assessing portfolio and product backlogs to ensure alignment with business strategies and capabilities.
- Leveraging knowledge of financial services, other organisations, and technology trends to identify opportunities and threats.
- Researching and staying up-to-date with industry best practices, technology, and customer trends.
- Managing the repository of business architecture models, business capability models, roadmaps, standards, and outcomes.
Skills and Expertise:
- Experience defining capabilities and roadmaps for complex enterprises.
- Background working with business solution vendors, technology vendors, and products.
- Strong understanding of Agile and contemporary methodologies.
- Excellent communication skills to convey complex concepts to all levels.
- Understanding of industry capability frameworks (e.g., Agile P3M).
- Experience defining, measuring, and articulating business capabilities.
- Experience developing, syndicating, and communicating architectures, designs, and proposals.
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills.