Job Description

Are you a strategic thinker with a knack for innovative solutions? To our tech center in Prague we are seeking a Senior Business Architect to join our dynamic team. This is an exciting opportunity to apply your skills in business architecture and strategy development to make a significant impact on our business processes. We offer a collaborative environment where your ideas will be valued, and your professional growth fostered.

Responsibilities

Business Capability Mapping: Utilize complete knowledge of business architecture to build business capability maps and value streams, linking strategy and execution, and restructuring the IT enablement process as necessary

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

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