MSD Senior Business Architect 

Czechia 

921859426

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Business Capability Mapping:

• Collaboration and Synthesis:
  Develop specific deliverables, views, and viewpoints by synthesizing the work of others, drawing from disciplines such as strategy development, business analysis, process management, operations, and systems analysis

• Strategic Development:
  Formulate a business architecture strategy based on situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations

• Structured Approach:
  Apply a structured business architecture methodology to capture key enterprise views, acting as a technical resource within the team

• Goal Alignment:
  Capture the tactical and strategic enterprise goals, ensuring traceability through the organization, mapping these to metrics for ongoing governance

• Liaison Role:
  Act as a liaison between business and IT, conveying business needs to IT and data constraints to the business, ensuring alignment between business strategy and IT strategy, processes, and initiatives

• Product Coordination:
  Identify priorities and manage multiple work streams, coordinating activities across departments and tracking deliverables to meet deadlines

• Function Description:
  Describe the primary business functions of the enterprise, distinguishing between customer-facing, supplier-related, business execution, and management functions

• Innovation and Experimentation:
  Apply technical and functional knowledge to conduct experiments or research, exploring novel approaches

• Technology Utilization:
  Demonstrate effective use of technology to complete assignments, working in ambiguous situations and explaining complex issues to build alignment

• Outcome Alignment:
  Ensure architectural outcomes align with business outcomes, driving technology reuse and voluntary use of architecture patterns by delivery teams

• Enterprise Goals Understanding:
  Understand the goals of the Animal Health EA group within the enterprise

• Technology Planning:
  Drive business outcome-oriented technology planning and investment by mapping interdependencies between business capabilities and IT applications and platforms

• Performance Metrics:
  Align architects’ performance metrics and incentives to support business outcomes, such as digital maturity, cost savings, process efficiency, error reduction, innovation, and revenue growth

• Artifact Development:
  Develop artifacts to quickly build an enterprise view of changes happening in each Value Team over time

• Investment Comparison:
  Provide a way for decision-makers to compare Product Line investment plans effortlessly

• Roadmap Maintenance:
  Develop and maintain detailed roadmaps for each product line, outlining priorities clearly

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with TOGAF, Zachman Framework methodologies

• Proficiency in Business Process Modeling, Strategic Planning, Requirements Management, System Designs, Business Process Improvements, and Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA)

• Strong understanding of business strategy and the ability to interpret and develop operational needs

• Proficiency in designing and implementing effective IT architecture for business process management

• Experience in developing information usage/decision-making use cases, information models, and quality assessments

• Ability to analyze, design, and develop solutions based on current versus future state in alignment with business needs

• Knowledge of enterprise technology capabilities and their reuse for end-user and application development services

• Leadership skills to drive business transformation, including strategic planning, entrepreneurship, innovation, and business acumen

• Strong communication skills to interpret and develop strategies for operational needs. Ability to clearly convey complex ideas and strategies to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Proven track record in coaching, development, talent growth, and execution excellence

• Experience with at least one EA tool like Orbus, Mega, LeanIX, Bizzdesign, etc.

What we offer

• Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment

• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally

• Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern

• Pension and health insurance contributions

• Internal reward system plus referral programme

• 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution

• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, Lítačka, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card

• Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora, and Mall.cz discount programmes

• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone

• Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner

• Competitive salary, incentive pay, and many more

Current Contingent Workers apply

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