We’re seeking an experienced Business Architect to play a pivotal role in a large programme. This role will ensure their business capabilities, processes, and resources are strategically aligned and optimised to deliver outstanding business outcomes. 

About the Role
As a Business Architect, you’ll provide the strategic and integrative link between business strategy and the design and implementation of the large programme solution. You’ll develop capability maps, model business operations, identify gaps and inefficiencies, and inform the large programme system design to ensure our solutions fully support business outcomes.

You’ll work closely with enterprise, solution, and data architects, as well as programme and change leaders, to ensure cohesive planning, effective change management, and smooth transitions. Your work will be central to decision-making, stakeholder alignment, and ensuring our systems deliver long-term value.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate business strategies into actionable operational plans
• Develop business capability models and value stream maps
• Model operating processes and identify gaps or inefficiencies
• Provide input into large programme solution design and configuration
• Support decision-making through impact and benefit analysis
• Collaborate across business and IT domains to ensure alignment
• Facilitate workshops to align business needs with the large programme capabilities
• Support business readiness, change management, and transition planning.

About You
We’re looking for a strategic thinker with strong analytical skills who can translate high-level objectives into practical outcomes. You’ll be confident engaging stakeholders, facilitating workshops, and collaborating across technical and business teams. Ideally you will have the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field
• Business Architecture certification (e.g. CBA®) or equivalent experience
• TOGAF® or similar enterprise architecture framework certification (desirable)
• 5+ years in business architecture, enterprise architecture, or business analysis
• Proven experience designing capability models, value streams, and operating models
• Experience translating strategy into operational and system requirements
• Background in large-scale transformation programmes, ideally involving large programme systems
• Strong business process modelling and value stream mapping expertise
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills
• Ability to assess trade-offs and impacts of design decisions
• Familiarity with change management and transition planning.

This is a chance to take on a strategic and influential role at the heart of a significant transformation programme. If this sounds like you, please send your CV and cover letter to Bella today: bella.richardson@beyond.co.nz

Please note to be considered you must be eligible to work in New Zealand.

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