Summary
A business architect uses their knowledge and experience to understand business scenarios, communicate the issues and recommend next steps. They support and guide other business architects.
At this role level, you will:
support executive level work and management of the business architecture practice
guide others in using appropriate business architectural tools and methods
understand and apply business architectural principles, techniques, and tools to business scenarios
create business architecture artefacts, including abstract representations of the organisation, knowing when to apply them
develop standard and scalable models to collect, aggregate, or disaggregate complex information
Work Activity Components
| Title | Details |
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| Environmental scanning (Level 5) | Maintains an awareness of current and emerging digital information and communications technologies, processes and methods. Identifies and evaluates potential opportunities to establish relevance and feasibility for inclusion in strategy formulation. |
| Strategy formulation (Level 5) | Creates, manages and maintains a business operating model that includes information, organisational, process, performance, people skills, economic and systems architecture. |
Behavioural Skills
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Information Acquisition | Identifying gaps in the available information required to understand a problem or situation and devising a means of resolving them. |
| Interacting with People | Establishing relationships, contributing to an open culture and maintaining contacts with people from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines. Effective, approachable and sensitive communicator in different communities and cultures. Ability to adapt style and approach to meet the needs of different audiences. |
| Organisational Awareness | Understanding the hierarchy and culture of own, customer, supplier and partner organisations and being able to identify the decision makers and influencers. |
Technical Skills
| Title | Details | Depth |
|---|---|---|
| National/International Standards | Current and emerging standards associated with IT practice nationally and internationally, published by authorities such as IEEE, IEC, BSI, ISO. | Familiar with |
| Cloud/Virtualisation | The principles and application of cloud/ virtualisation (including ownership, responsibilities and security implications). Use of tools and systems to manage virtualised environments. | Familiar with |
| Operational/Service Architecture | Knowledge of the IT/IS infrastructure and the IT applications and service processes used within own organisation, including those associated with sustainability and efficiency. | Aware of |
| Big Data | The discipline associated with data sets so large and/or complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate. The data files may include structured, unstructured and/or semi-structured data, such as unstructured text, audio, video, etc. Challenges include analysis, capture, curation, search, sharing, storage, transfer, manipulation, analysis, visualization and information privacy. | Aware of |
Other Skills
| Title | Details | Depth |
|---|---|---|
| Process Improvement Techniques | Methods, tools and techniques to analyse and optimise processes in order to improve the quality of a product or service. | Proficient in |
| Presentation Techniques | Methods and techniques for delivering effective and accessible presentations, either face-to-face or online within various contexts and to a variety of audiences. | Familiar with |
| Business Proposals | Methods and techniques for preparing and presenting business cases, requests for proposal (RFP) invitations to tender (ITT) and statements of requirements/work both verbally and in writing. | Familiar with |
| Techniques for Effective Meetings | Methods and techniques for running effective meetings and for understanding and influencing the roles played by participants. | Familiar with |
| Coaching Techniques | Methods and techniques for coaching individuals or groups by a balanced combination of support and direction, which could include use of virtual learning environments plus add-ons to augment feedback specific to work items, workflow or career plans. | Familiar with |
Training
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Strategic Planning for Information and Communications Systems | The process of defining the ICT strategic plan of an organisation in a methodical way based on business aims and objectives thereby enabling the specification of options and associated action plans for the use of IT-enabled business processes. |
| Financial Planning and Budgeting | Principles, regulations, procedures and tools for the financial management of both ongoing activities (business as usual) and time-bounded (project) activities. |
| Coaching | Concepts, methods and techniques for providing coaching in subject specialisms to individuals or groups (e.g. GROW model). |
| Requirements Definition | Requirements elicitation, analysis, validation, documentation and management techniques to identify and define requirements relevant to a change initiative or project. |
| Organisation Design | The process and the outcome of shaping an organisational structure, with the purpose of aligning it with the purpose of the business and the context in which the organisation exists. |
| Enterprise Architecture | The discipline that: defines, organises, standardises, and documents the whole architecture and all important elements of the respective organisation. Enterprise architecture covers all relevant domains, such as business, digital, physical, or organisational; and the relations and interactions between elements that belong to those domains, such as processes, functions, applications, events, data, or technologies. |
| Security Awareness | Tools and techniques to help users and employees understand the role they play in helping to combat information security breaches and for IT and security professionals to prevent and mitigate risk. |
Professional Development Activity (PDA)
| Title | Details | PDA Group |
|---|---|---|
| Deputising | Standing in for supervisor or manager on a temporary basis during periods of absence. | Broadening Activities |
| Job Shadowing and Special Assignments | Undertaking temporary periods or secondments in other roles, particularly those that offer a new perspective on own function or exposure to other environments and cultures. | Broadening Activities |
| Mentoring | Acting as a mentor, advising those for whom there is no direct responsibility, on matters to do with their job role, career and professional development. | Broadening Activities |
| Gaining Knowledge of Broader IT Issues | Increasing and maintaining currency of knowledge of broader IT issues through reading, attending and participating in seminars or conferences, special studies, temporary assignments etc. | Increasing Knowledge |
| Gaining Strategic Knowledge of Employing Organisation | Developing a comprehensive understanding of the business environment in which the employing organisation operates and its position, policies and direction in relation to health and care, country and global issues. | Increasing Knowledge |
| Participation in Professional Body Affairs | Taking an active part in professional body affairs at branch, specialist group, committee or board level. | Participation in Professional Activities |
| Negotiating and Influencing | Undertaking learning and practice of negotiating with and influencing others. | Developing Professional Skills |
| Team Leadership | Undertaking learning and practice of the skills required to lead teams, including motivation, direction, coaching, delegation, appraisal, counselling and developing others. | Developing Professional Skills |
Qualification Components
| Title | Awarding Bodies |
|---|---|
| FEDIP Senior Practitioner | The Federation for Informatics Professionals |
| TOGAF Certification Portfolio (4 certificates) | The Open Group |
Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework Skills
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Business architecture Business analysis involves understanding the business needs and translating those requirements into solutions through detailed analysis and feedback. |
Practitioner Business architecture You can: apply and develop business architecture frameworks, principles and techniques in your organisation advise and guide the organisation to inform the implementation of its strategy share the value of business architecture with the organisation produce clear multidimensional views of your organisation to support decision making |
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Communicating information Communication involves conveying information using the most effective medium and language for the audience. |
Expert Communicating information You can: mediate between people and mend relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels manage stakeholder expectations and host or moderate discussions about high risk and complexity, even within constrained timescales speak on behalf of and represent the community to large audiences inside and outside of government |
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Consultancy Consultancy involves providing specialist advice to address stakeholder and business needs. |
Practitioner Consultancy You can:
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Making and guiding decisions Process optimisation involves ensuring your processes are accurately defined and capture the most efficient way to complete a task by monitoring modified procedures. |
Practitioner Making and guiding decisions You can: make decisions characterised by medium levels of risk and complexity, and recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase build consensus between services or independent stakeholders |
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Methods and tools Metadata management involves establishing policies and processes that ensure data can be accessed across an organisation. |
Practitioner Methods and tools You can:
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Stakeholder relationship management Stakeholder relationship management involves managing stakeholder requirements and communications throughout a project, while remaining focused on the user needs. |
Practitioner Stakeholder relationship management You can:
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Strategic design and business change Applied mathematics and statistics involves applying analytical methods including exploratory data analysis, visualisation and statistical testing to help make accurate recommendations. |
Practitioner Strategic design and business change You can: demonstrate a good understanding of business issues, events and activities, and their short to long term impact support defining principles, patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements effectively focus on outcomes rather than solutions help to develop, maintain or update strategy in response to feedback and findings |
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Strategic thinking Strategy involves creating a plan to achieve a team or organisation's objectives. |
Practitioner Strategic thinking You can: define strategies and policies, providing guidance to others on working in the strategic context evaluate current strategies to ensure business requirements are being met and exceeded where possible |
The Professional Body Responsible for this job family is BCS. This job role profile was created in collaboration with BCS, using Role Model Plus.