Senior Business Architect, Sydney
Sydney
Lab49 – Product and Delivery /
Full-time /
Hybrid
Role Summary / Overview
We are currently partnered with financial services firms on industry-leading architectural transformation. We need a smart, progressive Senior Business Architect who is able to directly engage with senior stakeholders to drive modern best-of-breed architecture to support their business.
Our Business Architects have great communication skills, a deep understanding of driving and communicating strategy, product roadmap. They can clearly describe complex business concepts to client stakeholders and are willing and able to both delve into detailed solution specifics and operate at the higher business-enterprise architecture level.
Our clients will rely on your expert judgement for modern and best-in-class application, data, and technology solutions so a strong track record of effectively collaborating with project teams and partnering with clients, especially in the Financial Services Industry, Solutions Consulting, or start-up environments, is paramount.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct research to develop a deep understanding of industry and technology trends.
- Engage stakeholders, including leading workshops, to understand requirements and constraints.
- Perform business strategy and capability modelling; Data modelling & requirements analysis; understand criticality of data elements, privacy, and strategic use of data; Identify gaps between the requirements and the current state.
- Undertake target state analysis and definition, including “Where” and “How” the client should implement cloud environments / implications for data compliance or external regulations etc.
- Understand how applications, data stores, and systems support requirements and communicate their business value.
- Explore the use of cloud technologies to either augment existing business capabilities or provide new functionality.
- Align business & tech objectives with actual business outcomes; Describe the benefits (e.g., modernization, agility, scale); Describe cost optimizations that can be achieved.
- Develop an understanding of the investment and portfolio management at the client as it pertains to the cloud.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Business Architect in a financial services company.
- Broad Retail Banking, Cloud and Data Experience
- Deep and broad knowledge of cloud offerings, and the various advantages to each (certifications preferred).
- Hands-on experience working on migration of on-premises to cloud and best practices.
- Demonstrated ability to interpret and implement roadmap plans and enterprise-level architecture.
- Demonstrated ability to understand and represent business objectives and requirements and convert them into solution designs.
- Experience identifying complexity across domains/functions and formulating appropriate technical solutions toward achieving business objectives.
- Experience managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and other constraints.
- Foundation of technical expertise in engineering, architecture, solution design.
Lab49 (a division of the ION Group) is a global business strategy, design and technology consulting company specializing in capital markets. We provide innovation on demand, helping our clients realize rapid transformational change. We engineer the most forward-thinking systems in the industry for all kinds of financial services players, from small startups to large banks, from hedge funds to asset managers, assisting those companies with their most key strategic business programs and technology investments.
Our consultants are experts in strategy, user experience, architecture, engineering, and delivery management. We combine knowledge of the latest trends in technology with deep domain expertise to deliver innovative solutions with accelerated time-to-market.
We partner with our clients and leverage the myriad of platforms available to design and build the most effective solutions. We have office hubs in Midtown Manhattan, Washington DC, London, Budapest, New Delhi and Sydney.
Lab49/ION is committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive environment for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We respect the varied identities, abilities, cultures, and traditions of the individuals who comprise our organization and recognize the value that different backgrounds and points of view bring to our business.
Lab49/ION adheres to an equal employment opportunity policy that prohibits discriminatory practices or harassment against applicants or employees based on any legally impermissible factor.
