My client, a well regarded organisation in the higher education sector, has an opening for an experienced Business Architect. Reporting to the Director, Application Services, the primary focus of this role is to identify, define and design end to end business services for application services within a designated portfolio. You will analyse the business drivers and business operations through the use of business analysis frameworks and available industry standard techniques.

To be successful in this role, you will have:
Extensive experience and a proven track record in business services architecture within the higher education sector.
Varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance
Demonstrated ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies and identify potential solutions.
Proven ability to apply architectural principles, methods, and tools to business challenges
Experience developing and using these high-level models as required to collect, aggregate or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business
Experience modelling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques (preference for BPMN)
The ability to act as liaison conveying information in suitably accurate models between the business unit and their counterparts within Information Technology.
Relevant post graduate qualifications and extensive relevant experience or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education.

This is an exciting role and the opportunity to contribute significantly to the operations of the IT division.