Business Architect, Pretoria

The Role

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Alignment: Translate strategic objectives into actionable business capabilities and architecture blueprints. Capability Mapping: Develop and maintain strategic business capability maps, value streams, and stakeholder maps. Governance & Review Forums: Lead or contribute to forums like the Business Architecture Review Forum to ensure alignment with platform principles and strategy. BDLC Integration: Embed business architecture within the Business Development Lifecycle (BDLC), influencing solution design and capability reuse. Requirements Definition: Define high-level business requirements, target-state models, and implementation plans. Risk & Change Management: Participate in ongoing risk assessments, change control, and post-implementation reviews. Training & Enablement: Support internal capability building through structured training programs and academies.

Skills and Experience

Qualifications & Experience:

Minimum Qualification: Bachelor’s Degree in Sciences, Engineering, or IT. Preferred Qualification: Honours Degree in a related field. Experience: 3–5 years of relevant business experience, ideally 5-10 years at specialist level.

Required Skills and Competencies:

Strategic Thinking: Ability to interpret and contextualize strategy for operational needs. Analytical Capability: Strong skills in process analysis, capability gap identification, and transformation planning. Communication & Influence: Skilled in stakeholder engagement, governance forums, and cross-functional collaboration. Framework Proficiency: Familiarity with TOGAF, ArchiMate, BIAN, and enterprise architecture principles. Tooling Knowledge: Experience with Confluence, JIRA, and business architecture tooling options.

Trade Finance knowledge is favourable considering we are recruiting specifically the Trade and Working Capital portfolio.

Experience in Trade Finance and Payments projects. Hands-on experience with Payments and Trade systems such as EFT, RTGS, Swift, Calypso, RIVO, DOKA, Tiplus, eTradeport, etc. and vendor management, including working with vendors like Surecomp. Strong understanding of Structured Trade and Commodity Finance (STCF) specialising in cross-border financing for the trade of goods and commodities. Solid understanding of Payments and Trade products and services, including Domestic Payments, Cross-Border Payments, Letters of Credit, Foreign Bills of Collection, and Trade Guarantees, etc.