Al-Futtaim Hiring for Enterprise Business Architect Job at Dubai Full Time

Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United A”rab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions; automotive, financial services, real estate, retail and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Al-Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world’s most admired and innovative brands. Al-Futtaim Group’s entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organisation to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate.

By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration and integrity; Al-Futtaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day.

Overview of the role

The Business Architect plays a key role in leading the transformation of the business and ensuring critical deliverables, such as business capability models, business capabilities, and value streams, are developed and implemented.

This person aligns strategic goals and objectives with decisions regarding products and services; partners and suppliers; organization; capabilities; and key business and IT initiatives.

The primary focus is the business motivations, business operations and business analysis frameworks and related networks that link these aspects of the enterprise together.

The Business Architect works to develop an integrated view of the Al Futtaim Group using a repeatable approach, cohesive framework, and available industry standard techniques.

To contribute to the design and development of the Architecture Framework and Enterprise Target Architecture (ETA) in line with the Architecture Principles ensuring it supports Al-Futtaim Group’s EIT strategic direction.

What you will do

• Develop a business architecture strategy based on a situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations
• Apply a structured business architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views of the enterprise
• Capture the tactical and strategic enterprise goals that provide traceability through the organization and are mapped to metrics that provide ongoing governance
• Describe the primary business functions of the enterprise and distinguish between customer-facing, supplier-related, business execution and business management functions
• Define the set of strategic, core and support processes that transcend functional and organizational boundaries; identify and describe external entities such as customers, suppliers, and external systems that interact with the business; and describe which people, resources and controls are involved in the processes
• Drive the application rationalisation programme by developing a composable business architecture and assigning the corresponding capabilities.
• Contribute to the design and development of Enterprise Target Architecture (ETA) in the context of Business & IT strategy and recommend capability increments for EIT transformational plans.
• Contribute to the maintenance of the Architecture Principles.
• Manage the EA tool/repository to ensure that capabilities & applications are captured along with their lifecycle and maturity
• Define the data shared across the enterprise and the relationships between those data.
• Capture the relationships among roles, capabilities and business units, the decomposition of those business units into subunits, and the internal or external management of those units.

Required skills to be successful

• A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance
• Ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies
• The ability to apply architectural principles to business solutions
• The ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and drawings, and articulate their collective relevance to the organization and to high-priority business issues

About the team
The role will report to the Chief Enterprise Architect and will be based in Dubai Festival City.

What equips you for the role

• Degree in Computer Science/IT/similar with preferred education in Business Management (e.g. MBA)
• Preferred Certifications: TOGAF, CBA
• Minimum 10 years Business Architecture experience
• Knowledge on EA tools, e.g. ARIS, Orbus, SPARX EA, Abacus, Archi
• Experience using model-based representations that can be adjusted as required to collect, aggregate or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business
• The ability to visualize and create high-level models that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture
• Extensive experience planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives
• Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations.

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