Business Architecture Architect

Location: Centurion, Gauteng (provisional – to be confirmed)
Positions Available: 5
Salary: Market-related
Employment Type: To be confirmed

Job Overview

We are seeking experienced and highly skilled Business Architecture Architects to develop, maintain and optimise enterprise business architecture frameworks, operating models, business capabilities and organisational transformation strategies within complex enterprise environments.

The successful candidates will be responsible for translating organisational strategy into structured business architecture models, ensuring alignment between business objectives, operating processes, organisational capabilities, information requirements and technology investments.

This role requires extensive expertise in business architecture, enterprise architecture, business capability modelling, operating model design, value stream mapping, strategic planning and enterprise transformation.

The ideal candidates will have proven experience developing business architecture frameworks, conducting business capability assessments, defining current-state and future-state operating models and supporting large-scale business transformation initiatives.

Candidates must demonstrate the ability to work with senior business stakeholders, enterprise architects, technology leaders and transformation teams to establish a clear architectural view of how an organisation operates and how its capabilities must evolve to achieve strategic objectives.

This is a specialist architecture role requiring practical experience designing and maintaining enterprise business architecture, rather than general business analysis, project management or process documentation alone.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Business Architecture Development

• Develop, implement and maintain enterprise business architecture frameworks, principles, standards and methodologies.
• Define and document the organisation's business architecture landscape.
• Translate organisational strategy and business objectives into structured architecture models.
• Develop business architecture blueprints to guide enterprise transformation.
• Establish relationships between business capabilities, value streams, processes, organisational structures and information requirements.
• Maintain current-state and target-state business architecture models.
• Identify architectural gaps, dependencies and improvement opportunities.
• Ensure business architecture aligns with enterprise architecture principles.
• Support the development of business architecture roadmaps.
• Promote consistent business architecture practices across the organisation.

Business Capability Modelling and Assessment

• Develop and maintain enterprise business capability maps.
• Identify and classify core, supporting and strategic business capabilities.
• Conduct business capability maturity and performance assessments.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of existing business capabilities.
• Identify capability gaps affecting organisational performance.
• Define target-state capabilities aligned with strategic objectives.
• Support prioritisation of business capability investments.
• Map business capabilities to applications, processes, information and organisational functions.
• Develop capability improvement roadmaps.
• Support capability-based planning and investment decisions.

Business Operating Model Design

• Analyse existing organisational operating models and business structures.
• Develop current-state and future-state target operating models.
• Define relationships between people, processes, technology, information and governance.
• Identify operating model inefficiencies and structural weaknesses.
• Recommend improvements to organisational operating models.
• Support operating model redesign and business transformation initiatives.
• Define operating model principles and architectural requirements.
• Evaluate the impact of proposed organisational changes.
• Collaborate with business leaders to validate target operating models.
• Ensure operating model designs support organisational strategy and operational effectiveness.

Value Stream Mapping and Business Process Architecture

• Identify and document enterprise value streams.
• Map value streams to business capabilities and organisational outcomes.
• Develop high-level business process architecture models.
• Analyse relationships between business processes, capabilities and value delivery.
• Identify inefficiencies and opportunities for process optimisation.
• Support enterprise process standardisation and transformation.
• Collaborate with business process management specialists and business analysts.
• Maintain architectural alignment between business process models and enterprise capability models.
• Support prioritisation of process improvement and automation initiatives.
• Ensure process architecture supports target operating models.

Business Strategy and Architecture Alignment

• Engage with senior stakeholders to understand organisational strategy and priorities.
• Translate strategic objectives into business architecture requirements.
• Identify business capabilities required to support strategic initiatives.
• Evaluate the architectural impact of new business strategies.
• Support strategic planning and business transformation programmes.
• Develop business architecture recommendations to support investment decisions.
• Identify dependencies between strategic initiatives and enterprise capabilities.
• Support portfolio planning and prioritisation.
• Ensure proposed business changes align with enterprise architecture standards.
• Present business architecture insights to senior management and governance forums.

Enterprise Architecture Integration

• Collaborate with enterprise architects, solution architects, data architects and technology architects.
• Ensure alignment between business architecture and application, data and technology architectures.
• Map business capabilities to supporting enterprise applications and systems.
• Identify technology dependencies affecting business capabilities.
• Support the evaluation of technology investments from a business architecture perspective.
• Contribute to enterprise architecture repositories and architectural documentation.
• Participate in architecture governance and design review activities.
• Identify gaps between business requirements and technology capabilities.
• Support the development of integrated enterprise architecture roadmaps.
• Ensure architectural consistency across business and technology transformation initiatives.

Business Transformation and Change Impact Analysis

• Support enterprise transformation and organisational change programmes.
• Assess the impact of proposed changes on business capabilities and operating models.
• Identify architectural dependencies and transformation risks.
• Develop transition-state business architecture models.
• Support business transformation planning and implementation.
• Collaborate with programme managers and change management teams.
• Evaluate transformation initiatives against target-state architecture.
• Support benefits identification and business value assessment.
• Recommend improvements to transformation sequencing and prioritisation.
• Monitor alignment between implemented changes and approved business architecture.

Architecture Governance and Standards

• Develop and maintain business architecture principles, standards and modelling conventions.
• Establish governance processes for business architecture development and maintenance.
• Ensure architecture models are accurate, consistent and appropriately maintained.
• Support enterprise architecture governance forums.
• Review business initiatives for alignment with approved architecture principles.
• Maintain architectural decision records and documentation.
• Identify deviations from target-state architecture.
• Recommend corrective actions and architectural improvements.
• Support compliance with relevant enterprise governance frameworks.
• Promote continuous improvement of business architecture practices.

Stakeholder Engagement and Architecture Communication

• Engage with executives, business unit leaders, enterprise architects and transformation stakeholders.
• Facilitate business architecture workshops and capability mapping sessions.
• Present business capability assessments and target operating models.
• Translate complex architecture concepts into clear business recommendations.
• Build consensus around future-state architecture and transformation priorities.
• Provide architectural guidance to business and technology project teams.
• Support strategic decision-making through structured architecture analysis.
• Maintain effective communication between business and IT stakeholders.
• Develop architecture presentations, reports and executive-level recommendations.

Minimum Requirements

• Relevant degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Business Management, Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Typically 5–8+ years of relevant professional experience in business architecture, enterprise architecture, business transformation or a closely related discipline.
• Proven hands-on experience developing enterprise business architecture models, frameworks and deliverables.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining business capability maps.
• Practical experience designing current-state and target-state operating models.
• Strong understanding of business architecture principles, frameworks and methodologies.
• Experience with enterprise value stream mapping and business capability assessment.
• Experience aligning business strategy with organisational capabilities, processes and technology.
• Proven involvement in large-scale business transformation or enterprise architecture initiatives.
• Experience developing business architecture roadmaps and transformation recommendations.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.
• Familiarity with Business Architecture Guild principles and BIZBOK guidance would be advantageous.
• Experience working with enterprise architecture modelling tools.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and executive-level communication skills.
• Ability to facilitate architecture workshops and strategic planning discussions.
• Excellent analytical, conceptual modelling and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience working within complex enterprise environments.

Technical Skills and Competencies

Business Architecture Frameworks and Methodologies

• Business Architecture Body of Knowledge (BIZBOK)
• TOGAF
• Enterprise architecture principles
• Business architecture frameworks
• Capability-based planning
• Business capability modelling
• Business architecture governance
• Business architecture maturity assessment
• Architecture development methodologies
• Architecture standards and principles
• Business architecture repositories
• Enterprise architecture alignment

Business Capability Architecture

• Business capability mapping
• Capability decomposition
• Capability taxonomy development
• Capability maturity assessments
• Capability gap analysis
• Capability-based investment planning
• Capability dependency mapping
• Capability heatmaps
• Strategic capability assessment
• Business capability roadmaps
• Capability-to-application mapping
• Capability-to-process mapping

Target Operating Model Design

• Current-state operating models
• Target operating models
• Organisational design principles
• People, process and technology alignment
• Business operating model assessment
• Operating model transformation
• Governance model design
• Business function modelling
• Organisational capability alignment
• Operating model transition planning
• Business transformation architecture

Value Stream and Process Architecture

• Business value stream mapping
• Value stream decomposition
• Business process architecture
• BPMN fundamentals
• End-to-end business process analysis
• Process-to-capability mapping
• Process optimisation
• Process standardisation
• Business process transformation
• Value delivery analysis
• Business process governance

Enterprise Architecture and Modelling Tools

Experience with relevant tools such as:

• Sparx Enterprise Architect
• LeanIX
• ARIS
• Orbus iServer
• Bizzdesign
• MEGA HOPEX
• Archi
• Microsoft Visio
• Lucidchart
• Other enterprise architecture repositories and modelling platforms

Architecture Modelling Standards

• ArchiMate
• TOGAF Architecture Development Method
• Business capability models
• Business architecture blueprints
• Enterprise value stream models
• Operating model diagrams
• Architecture roadmaps
• Architecture viewpoints
• Business process models
• Architecture dependency mapping
• Business information concepts

Strategic Business Alignment

• Business strategy analysis
• Strategic capability planning
• Enterprise transformation strategy
• Business investment prioritisation
• Business architecture roadmaps
• Strategic initiative alignment
• Portfolio planning support
• Business value assessment
• Architecture impact analysis
• Enterprise transformation planning

Business and Technology Integration

• Business and IT alignment
• Enterprise application architecture awareness
• Data architecture fundamentals
• Technology architecture fundamentals
• Application portfolio mapping
• Business capability-to-technology mapping
• Digital transformation
• Enterprise systems integration concepts
• Architecture governance
• Technology investment alignment

Business Transformation and Change Management

• Business transformation programmes
• Operating model redesign
• Organisational change impact analysis
• Transition-state architecture
• Transformation roadmaps
• Business capability improvement
• Process transformation
• Strategic change initiatives
• Business readiness assessment
• Benefits identification
• Transformation governance

Stakeholder Engagement and Governance

• Executive stakeholder engagement
• Architecture workshops
• Strategic planning facilitation
• Architecture presentations
• Business architecture governance
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Architecture decision support
• Business case development
• Architecture review boards
• Enterprise governance frameworks

Relevant Certifications (Advantageous)

One or more of the following certifications would be beneficial:

• Certified Business Architect (CBA)
• TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner
• TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Foundation
• ArchiMate Practitioner
• ArchiMate Foundation
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
• Certification of Capability in Business Analysis (CCBA)
• Relevant Business Architecture Guild training
• Relevant enterprise architecture certifications
• Business Process Management certifications
• Other recognised business architecture, enterprise architecture or transformation certifications

Key Personal Attributes

• Strong strategic and conceptual thinking abilities.
• Excellent enterprise-level analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to translate organisational strategy into structured architecture models.
• Strong understanding of business capabilities and operating models.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and executive communication skills.
• Ability to influence senior management and cross-functional teams.
• Strong workshop facilitation and presentation abilities.
• High attention to detail and architectural consistency.
• Ability to manage complex organisational dependencies.
• Strong business acumen and commercial awareness.
• Ability to work independently and provide architectural leadership.
• Collaborative approach to business and technology transformation.
• Strong documentation and conceptual modelling abilities.
• High levels of professionalism, accountability and integrity.

Application Requirements

Interested candidates should submit an updated CV clearly detailing their practical business architecture, enterprise architecture and business transformation experience, together with copies of relevant academic qualifications and professional certifications.

Candidates should specifically highlight:

• Enterprise business architecture frameworks they have developed or maintained.
• Business capability maps and capability assessments completed.
• Current-state and target-state operating models designed.
• Enterprise value stream mapping experience.
• Business architecture roadmaps and transformation plans developed.
• Experience applying TOGAF, BIZBOK or other business architecture methodologies.
• Enterprise architecture tools and modelling platforms used.
• Experience mapping business capabilities to applications, processes and technology.
• Business transformation programmes supported or led.
• Experience presenting architecture recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Architecture governance and standards responsibilities.
• The size and complexity of enterprise environments supported.
• Relevant business architecture, enterprise architecture and professional certifications.

Important: This is a specialist Business Architecture Architect opportunity requiring demonstrable hands-on experience developing business capability models, operating models and enterprise business architecture deliverables. General business analysis, project management or process documentation experience without substantial business architecture responsibilities will not be sufficient.

Please note: This is a provisional recruitment specification prepared pending confirmation of the client's detailed requirements. The preferred business architecture frameworks, minimum experience, qualifications, certifications, remuneration, employment arrangements and working conditions will be confirmed during the recruitment process.