About this role
Senior Enterprise Business Architect
Description & Requirements
The Senior Enterprise Business Architect will play a pivotal role within Enterprise Architecture by bridging the gap between business strategy and technology execution. The role-holder will develop and maintain a business architecture that reflects the Firm’s strategic imperatives and operational activities by understanding, modeling, and optimizing the Firm’s core business capabilities, processes, organizational structures, and information flows across global Practice Groups (PGs) and business functions.
The individual will translate strategic imperatives into actionable architectural requirements, ensuring technology investments directly enable the Firm’s vision for delivering excellence, increasing market share, and fostering a high-performance culture.
Main responsibilities
- Partner with senior business leaders, practice group heads, and the Innovation Group to understand strategic goals and translate them into a coherent business architecture roadmap
- Develop and maintain comprehensive models of Baker McKenzie’s business capabilities, identifying gaps, redundancies, and opportunities for optimization and innovation
- Analyze current-state business processes to understand how the Firm delivers value; create insights to inform transformation teams aiming to identify inefficiencies and design future-state processes that leverage technology for improved efficiency, client experience, and cross-border collaboration
- Ensure business architecture insights inform stakeholders to elicit, analyze, and document high-level business requirements, ensuring they are clear, complete, and aligned with strategic objectives
- Work closely with business relationship managers to align business cases and value propositions for proposed technology solutions, demonstrating clear Return on Investment (ROI) and alignment with the Firm's strategic imperatives
- Act as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders, facilitating discussions, resolving conflicts, and building consensus around architectural decisions
- Contribute to the overall enterprise architecture roadmap, ensuring business architecture insights inform technology planning and portfolio management
- Collaborate with the Innovation Group to assess the business impact and feasibility of emerging technologies and innovative solutions, ensuring they address genuine business problems
- Provide business leadership and mentorship to less experienced architects and cross-functional teams, including business stakeholders and business analysts, fostering a culture of architectural excellence and strategic thinking
Skills and experience:
- A bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field; a m