Job Description:

Process Architecture & BPM Capability Specialist (ePABA CoE)

6 months contract

About the Role

As a Process Architecture & BPM Capability Specialist, you will be responsible for defining, implementing, and evolving the enterprise process architecture and BPM capability across the organisation. You will enable end-to-end traceability from strategy to execution while supporting data-driven optimisation, automation, governance, and operational excellence.

This strategic role is critical in enabling the organisation's transformation agenda by establishing a robust enterprise process architecture and BPM capability, improving decision-making, optimising costs, increasing operational efficiency, reducing risk, and strengthening delivery performance across federated tribes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain enterprise process architecture across all levels (L0–L4), aligned to business strategy and value chains
  • Establish and govern a single source of truth for process models, taxonomy, and standards
  • Design and implement BPM governance frameworks, process ownership structures, and operating models
  • Lead enterprise BPM maturity uplift initiatives and embed governance, compliance, and audit readiness
  • Own and optimise process platforms such as ARIS, Celonis, or equivalent tools
  • Enable end-to-end traceability across business processes, systems, data, and controls
  • Collaborate closely with Solution Architects and Enterprise Architects to ensure alignment between process design and system architecture
  • Ensure process models explicitly reflect system interactions, integration points, and data flows
  • Identify process inefficiencies, automation opportunities, and optimisation potential
  • Define and track process performance metrics including cost, cycle time, automation, and compliance
  • Build and support a Process Engineering Community of Practice (CoP)
  • Provide training, standards, and modelling guidance to ensure consistent adoption

Minimum Requirements

  • Proven experience in enterprise process architecture design and BPM capability implementation
  • Strong knowledge of BPMN modelling standards and process lifecycle management
  • Hands-on experience with ARIS, Celonis, or equivalent BPM/process mining tools
  • Experience linking business processes to systems, applications, data, and architecture artefacts
  • Experience working with Solution Architecture and/or Enterprise Architecture teams
  • Understanding of system integration patterns and end-to-end traceability (process to system to data)
  • Strong analytical capability, stakeholder engagement, and influencing skills
  • Ability to work independently and deliver across multiple business areas

Advantageous Experience

  • Banking or financial services experience
  • Experience in federated or agile delivery environments
  • Exposure to process mining, automation, and digital transformation initiatives


Working Place:

Johannesburg, South Africa