Business Architecture Advisor

Job summary

The advisor captures and defines business needs for prioritized initiatives to produce high-level analyses of benefits, value, and impacts. They provide recommendations to support decision-making processes while leaving delivery execution to dedicated teams.

Job details

The client is looking for a business architecture advisor who works upstream of delivery, on initiatives that have already been prioritized. The work involves capturing and defining business needs, then producing a high-level analysis covering expected benefits, sought value, main impacts and a preliminary delivery scope. These analyses feed recommendations on how initiatives should move forward: the role primarily serves decision making, while delivery remains with the delivery teams, which the advisor supports only as needed. The experience threshold is ten years, including five in business architecture and transformation programs, and insurance domain knowledge is described as a significant asset. Target candidate: a senior business architect with at least five years of practice in transformation programs, used to turning a prioritized initiative into defined needs, expected benefits and a preliminary scope. Their background shows recommendations that supported decisions on the next steps of initiatives, ideally in the insurance sector. REQUIRED Experience in business architecture and in transformation programs Conceptual and synthesis skills Understanding of organizational context and corporate strategies Requirements DESIRED No requirement classified as desired in the mandate. ASSET Knowledge of the insurance domain (significant asset) Profiles to Exclude: ▸ Business analyst profile whose experience covers detailed requirements in the delivery phase, with no demonstrated definition of needs upstream of prioritized initiatives. ▸ Solution or technical architect profile with no demonstrated business architecture deliverable. ▸ Profile with 10 years in IT but fewer than 5 years in business architecture. ▸ Business architecture practiced outside transformation programs, with no demonstrated role within a program. ▸ Profile whose analyses are limited to documentation, with no demonstrated contribution to recommendations on next steps for initiatives.

What you’ll do

The advisor captures and defines business needs for prioritized initiatives to produce high-level analyses of benefits, value, and impacts. They provide recommendations to support decision-making processes while leaving delivery execution to dedicated teams.

Requirements

Candidates must have at least ten years of experience, including five years specifically in business architecture and transformation programs. Strong conceptual and synthesis skills are required, with knowledge of the insurance sector considered a significant asset.

Listed skills

• Stakeholder Management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Business Architecture
• Transformation Programs
• Strategic Planning
• Business Needs Analysis
• Conceptualization
• Synthesis
• Organizational Context
• Corporate Strategy
• Insurance Domain Knowledge
• Decision Support
• High-level Analysis
• Project Scoping
• Stakeholder Management
• Strategic Analysis
• Domain Knowledge
• Needs Assessment
• Business Analysis
• Decision Making
• Consulting
• Decision Support Systems
• Prioritization

Job areas

• Consulting
• Technology
• Management & Leadership
• Business Architect
• Business / Management Consultant
• Management and Organization Analysts
• Management Analysts

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