Business Architect Expert

Posting Date: 22 Jun 2026 Requisition ID: 3743 Location: HQ - Abu Dhabi Posting Status: Active Recruitment Job Purpose

The Business Architect Expert drives digital transformation by translating strategic objectives into executable business architecture and use-case implementations. The role builds end-to-end business capability journeys for each digital use case, designs conceptual and logical business architecture in collaboration with business focal points, and manages the full requirements lifecycle (gathering, analysis, insights, design, sign-off, and delivery). The position ensures business processes and procedures are designed and mapped effectively, user journeys are optimized, and business value, outcomes, benefits, and financial gains are clearly articulated and realized.

Key Activities, Responsibility \& Accountability

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

• Digital Use Case Enablement and Delivery
• Business Capability Journey Development
• Conceptual and Logical Business Architecture Design
• Requirements Lifecycle Management
• Business Process and Procedure Design \& Mapping
• User Journey Design and Value Mapping
• Benefits Realization and Financial Value Articulation
• Governance, Standards, and Compliance
• Stakeholder Engagement and Change Management
• Health and Safety, Security, and Business Continuity
• Excellence and Quality Management

Key activities for this role Involve in building and maintain cloud architecture practice that include:

• Architecture Work: Business Architect Expert will develop and maintain business architecture including (Design documents, Current \& Target state architecture, business capability, Reference Models, Principles, Process \& Procedures Diagrams, Manuals, Templates) to guide the design and implementation of Digital Transformation initiatives and use case implementation, ensuring consistency and best practices across the organization.
• Business Analysis: Business Architect Expert will be responsible on developing and managing the full lifecycle of business analysis including requirement management, stakeholder analysis and gap assessment, User story designs and other techniques required to ensure that requirements are translated into actionable architecture
• Financial Management: This role involves building and maintaining financial models for digital transformation, optimizing costs, and ensuring value creation. The architect will also provide financial insights to support strategic decision-making.
• Strategic Planning: This role will Lead the contribute to the organization's strategic planning by aligning Digital initiatives with business goals, identifying opportunities for innovation, and driving the long-term vision for digital strategy.
• Promoting \& Change Management: The architect will oversee change management processes to ensure smooth transitions to digital transformation, minimizing disruptions and ensuring stakeholder buy-in, also advocating for use cases adoption within the organization, demonstrating the benefits of digital solutions on the business involving processes for both tangible and intangible benefits, and driving change management initiatives. Responsibilities \& Accountabilities (contd.)

Activity: Architecture Work

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Digital Use Case Enablement and Delivery

o Define scope, objectives, and success criteria for each digital use case in alignment with strategic priorities.

o Develop integrated delivery plans with clear milestones, dependencies, and quality gates.

o Coordinate with Product/Project Managers to align resources, timelines, and risk mitigation actions.

o Track execution progress and manage issues, risks, and decisions through to resolution.

o Validate delivered outcomes against agreed acceptance criteria and business readiness requirements.

• Business Capability Journey Development

o Map end-to-end capability journeys for each use case, including enabling people, process, data, and technology elements.

o Identify capability gaps and define target-state capability enhancements and maturity progression.

o Prioritize capability changes based on value, feasibility, risk, and dependency analysis.

o Establish measurable outcomes and KPIs for capability performance and adoption.

o Maintain a reusable capability catalog and ensure traceability from capabilities to use cases and benefits.

• Conceptual and Logical Business Architecture Design

o Create conceptual business architecture views linking value streams, capabilities, processes, and information flows.

o Produce logical architecture models detailing business components, roles, policies, and interactions.

o Ensure architecture designs align with enterprise standards, principles, and target operating models.

o Conduct design reviews and resolve design issues in partnership with business focal points and IT architects.

o Maintain version-controlled architecture artifacts and ensure change impact is accessed and communicated.

• Architecture tools and deliverables

• Develop and maintain Business Architecture (Target \& Current) to help increase digital adoption and value creation within the EA Repository

• Design and maintain business landscape in both conceptual and logical representation showing the optimization opportunities within the EA Repository
• Maintain EA Repository for Business architecture including all elements based on EA Meta Model structure
• Lead and maintain current state baseline within the target repository with all assigned activity like data collection, verification, reporting and analysis.
• Document latest technology trends and digital services within a value stream
• Update EA repository with business architecture according to the enterprise Metamodel and ensure information management for all services and assets using EA Tools
• Update and maintain all architecture documentation required from digital strategy and reference architecture documentation.

Professional Certifications

Min- • Excellent analytical, probl TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification; BPMN training or equivalent.

Business analysis certification (e.g., IIBA CBAP or PMI-PBA) or equivalent experience

Pref - • Certified ArchiMate 3.0

• SAFe/Agile certifications (e.g., SAFe Agilist, Scrum Master), Lean Six Sigma (Green/Black Belt).
• Value management/benefits realization credentials or demonstrable practice.

Qualifications

Min - Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

Pref - Master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field

Experience

• Strong knowledge of digital transformation and business capability
• Min of 5\~6 years of relevant experience in business architecture
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.