Business Architect – Strategy & Transformation

About the role

The Business Architect will act as the strategic bridge between the company’s vision and its enterprise execution. Based in Riyadh, you will shape and continuously improve the business architecture to align capabilities, processes, and transformation initiatives with digital strategy.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain baseline and target‑state business architectures aligned with corporate objectives and digital transformation strategies.
• Conduct gap analyses between current and future architectures, identifying opportunities for capability enhancement and process optimization.
• Establish and enforce business architecture principles, standards, and governance practices, participating in architecture review boards.
• Partner with business leaders and transformation teams to align initiatives, facilitate workshops, and promote architecture‑driven decision making.
• Perform impact assessments for strategic, regulatory, and technological changes, providing recommendations for investment decisions.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field; Master’s preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy Consulting or Business Transformation.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.

Required skills

• TOGAF framework and certification.
• BPMN 2.0 modeling.
• eTOM, APQC, BAGuild, ABPMP, BPM CBOK methodologies.
• Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt or Black Belt).
• Business analysis certifications (CBAP, PMI‑PBA) – advantageous.