Business Architect

About the role

CoorB is looking for a Business Architect in Jeddah to define and maintain business architecture across banking environments. The role ensures alignment between business strategy, capabilities, processes, operating models and enterprise architecture, supports transformation initiatives, and works closely with business stakeholders, product owners, enterprise architects and technology teams. It also ensures alignment with governance and applicable SAMA requirements.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain business architecture models, standards and documentation
• Define business capabilities and maintain business capability maps
• Develop current-state (baseline) and target-state business architecture, and conduct gap and impact analysis
• Translate business strategy and objectives into business capabilities and architectural requirements
• Map key business processes, value streams and operating models
• Assess the business impact of proposed technology and transformation initiatives
• Collaborate with stakeholders and product owners, and support transformation initiatives and capability roadmaps
• Identify business, process, capability and technology dependencies and impacts
• Participate in architecture governance, reviews and approvals, and maintain architecture principles, standards and governance documentation

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• More than 10 years of overall experience and 5+ years in Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Business Analysis or related roles
• Experience in banking or financial services preferred; experience in a SAMA-regulated environment is an advantage

Required skills

• Strong experience in business capability mapping and business architecture modeling
• Current-state, target-state and gap analysis
• Good understanding of enterprise architecture, business processes and operating models
• TOGAF, BIZBOK, CBAP or similar certification preferred