Business Architect Job Description
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At BACOE, it is our firm’s mission to advance the Business Architect profession, discipline, and base of understanding. Today, BACOE is the Practitioner-Standard for Business Architects. We are moving the Business Architecture profession to a maturity similar to surgeons, pilots, and architects in the physical world.
What is a Business Architect?
The Business Architect combines many different skills and experiences to address business, information, and technology-related initiatives. In many activities, the Business Architect's architecture is the "glue" that integrates the project and program strategies across multiple programs and projects and ensures alignment with business strategies and drivers and management financial priorities.
This "glue" is a series of explicit graphical models that, at a minimum, define and describe the Goals the Business is trying to achieve, the Process needed to be performed to meet these Goals, the Things (Data) needed to perform these Processes, and the Roles and responsibilities alignment and responsibilities in place to perform the required Processes.
The Business Architect sets the direction and establishes the approach for integrating information applications and programs.
Finally, the Business Architect catalogs, develop, coordinates, communicates, maintains, and enforces the overall Business Architecture principles, models, and standard components used by the Business to perform all information system-related activities. The Business Architect's focus is deeply on one specific business domain, in contrast with the Enterprise Architect, which focuses on establishing a baseline for integrating various business domains.
What does a Business Architect do?
Business Architect Experience:
Normally, a minimum of 10 years of planning and analysis experience is expected. In addition to some systems background, the Business Architect will possess a broad background in different business sectors, with in-depth experience and knowledge in at least one aspect of the business (for example engineering, manufacturing, planning, etc.).
This is necessary to allow the Business Architect to dialog with business people and management, on their terms.
Finally, and key to this position, the Business Architect should have demonstrated skills, and actual examples of models built using The EACOE Enterprise Framework™ and the BACOE Business Architecture Framework.
A Masters Degree in related fields is desirable
Business Architect Skills:
A successful Business Architect should possess many skills. The key skills are:
Communication, both verbal (e.g., presentations, seminars, etc.) and written (e.g., reports, articles, etc.).
Group session facilitation.
Team Leadership.
Marketing (“selling” the results of architectural approaches).
Analysis and design.
Modeling and graphical representation and abstractions. Actual experience developing and building models based on The Enterprise Framework™ or the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture.
Management (e.g., prioritization, trade-off analysis, psychology, etc.).
Business Architect Roles:
The Business Architect will be involved in projects with the following Roles. While the following is not exhaustive, it does represent some of the key Roles:
The Business Architect for cross-program and cross-project Business Architecture strategies and problem resolution.
The Business Architect for complex systems development projects
The consultant in business process analysis and design, and service delivery, particularly with respect to the use of information technology, trends, and directions
The Project Coordinator ensures conformance and compliance of projects and programs with Business Architect guidelines.
Business Architect Responsibilities:
The successful Business Architect will have many responsibilities. While the following is not exhaustive, it does represent some of the key responsibilities:
Definition, implementation, and execution of the processes for the definition, maintenance, and conformance management of the Business Architecture.
Maintenance of the key Business Architecture deliverables.
Establishment and maintenance of contacts within business units and information system programs to understand business processes and business drivers, business requirements, solutions strategies, alternatives, etc., being considered and/or implemented.
Business Architectural leadership in the resolutions of inter-program and inter-project issues.
On-going publicity and communication of the Business Architecture both within the information systems community and the Business unit.
Ongoing research and assessment of new technology for potential use within the Business unit.
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Specific Duties of Business Architect:
The Business Architect is responsible for the development or coordination of the following deliverables:
•Development of the Business Architecture.
•Coordinating all Business Architecture activities globally (Chief Business Architect).
•Developing and Coordinating Business Architecture Plans.
•Auditing compliance within the Business Architecture standards.
•Serving as an advisor to senior business management on business information integration strategies.
The Business Architect and The General Contractor - A Fable
BACOE is the Practitioner-Standard for Business Architects.
In this era of business change, the need to link sound corporate strategy and information strategy has never been greater. Technical strategies alone are not capable of ensuring alignment and providing business value.
To benefit from the information resources that are key to your organization's growth, it is essential to have a Business Architecture aligned with your Business Strategy, that aligns with your Business Goals, and is capable of effectively addressing and managing risk.
BACOE Certified Business Architecture professionals are the highest quality practitioners. They are the industry’s premium architects with helping ensure your business’s success. Organizations employing or contracting BACOE Certified Business Architects understand the need for professionals who have credentials that are known and respected around the world.
Our Certified Business Architects have the proven ability to perform Business Architecture activities with globally accepted standards and guidelines to ensure that the enterprise’s information technology and business systems are aligned with Business Goals, are capable of change in continually changing business and technology climates, can reuse systems assets, and are cost-effective.
Organizations are in search of practitioners that are up to date with current proven practical practices and are committed to their profession. BACOE Business Architects are these practitioners, and these professionals maintain skills that are imperative in today’s competitive environment.
BACOE Certified Business Architects have committed to maintaining skills, following a professional path that continually allows for skills enhancement and demonstration, knowledge gain, and professional development, and are distinguished from other Business Architects.
Our Business Architects with advanced certifications have demonstrated skills, attended a rigorous education and training course, continue to demonstrate skills by periodic re-certification, and have a desire to be leaders in their profession.
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