Lead Business Analyst & Functional Architect
Define, maintain and apply the Regional Design Principles; create and manage design principles, and standards, aligned to the group strategy and objectives. Adapt the detailed principles to connect to the specific Core Product in focus.
Position Responsibilities :
Act as the Design Authority; in conjunction with the Product Owners, Delivery Leads and Solution Architects, be the ‘conscience’ of the business in all Core Product design matters.
Define and maintain the functional architecture; oversee the creation of valuable and usable artefacts that describe the in-focus operating model, both Current and Target (ToM). Ensure the Business Architecture connects to both the Customer Journeys and the supporting Technical Architectures.
Champion the Customer Experience and Customer Journey maps; working with the relevant Customer Experience owners, ensure the target Customer Journeys are defined, understood and reflected in the Core Product designs.
Ensure the integration points between platforms are enabled; using the Customer Journeys, identify the integration points and ensure they are built into the Core Product designs and resultant Product Roadmaps.
Delivery: Getting the Right Solution to Customers: Once alignment and an understanding of how the product can be delivered, it’s time to build the solution. Whether developing in iterations or a big bang implementation, functional architect will create fast feedback loops and adjust your approach along the way. Familiarity with technology will help to better understand any development challenges, options, risks, and dependencies. Once the product (or product increment) is built, it needs to be tested before it’s release it to production. Familiarity with testing approaches required to ensure product quality. Whether it’s creating User Stories with acceptance criteria in Gherkin format, writing test cases, performing User Acceptance Testing (UAT), or ensuring quality in some other way, this is a critical piece of product delivery.
Apply AI skills and promote AI-enabled ways of working; leverage generative AI, automation and data-driven insights to accelerate requirements analysis, improve solution design, enhance documentation quality and increase delivery efficiency, while ensuring responsible use, data privacy, security and appropriate human oversight.
Maintain an awareness of external best practices; both in functional architecture design and external market developments to proactively recommend initiatives or opportunities to the business.
Transition and change; assist in the identification of the transition journey from current to target state, and the change management activities/focus areas to enable successful adoption of the solutions.
Collaborative working; multi-cultural, multi-location teams, and cross functional working with teams from other business areas.
In addition to the project delivery activities the Business Architect has responsibilities for developing the wider Business Analysts Community and developing the wider BA practice;
Lead and develop the Business Analyst community; be the professional role model for the BA teams, driving excellence across all BA activities
Adding value to the business;
Promote Subject Matter Expertise for a specific business area or business capability
Proactively challenge the business approach, solution design or value focus to ensure the best Minimum Marketable Product (MMP) is achieved
Contribute to the Change Management design and delivery
Identify opportunities to enhance transformation capabilities in country businesses
Identify new ways of working;
New methods, tools or approaches for business analysis
Bring external insights into the team from other insurance players or industries
Enhance team maturity;
Drive consistency and standardization in all work and outputs
Identify opportunities to improve working practices and relationships with other teams
Increasing the team brand…