NatWest Group
About the Role:
This Business Architect role offers a unique opportunity to define and implement the intentional architecture for a key scope within the bank, ensuring alignment with the enterprise strategy. You will collaborate with key stakeholders across the organization to develop an operating model that supports the bank’s long-term goals.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define, create, and maintain business architecture models, roadmaps, and outcomes.
- Analyze business strategy and market trends to identify future business capabilities.
- Translate business needs into actionable business and customer outcomes.
- Gain agreement and buy-in from key stakeholders.
- Coordinate business design with platform teams.
- Influence the development of business strategies, identifying opportunities for transformation.
- Assess portfolio and product backlogs to ensure alignment with business strategies.
- Leverage financial services knowledge and industry trends to identify opportunities and threats.
- Research and stay updated on industry best practices, technology, and customer trends.
- Maintain a comprehensive repository of business architecture models, capability models, roadmaps, standards, and outcomes.
Skills and Expertise:
- Experience defining capabilities and roadmaps for complex enterprises.
- Background working with business and technology vendors.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and working in Agile teams.
- Excellent communication skills for conveying complex concepts to senior leadership.
- Knowledge of industry capability frameworks, including Agile P3M.
- Experience defining, measuring, and articulating business capabilities.
- Proven ability to develop, communicate, and gain consensus on architectures, designs, and proposals.
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills.