Senior Business Architect 

Start Date: 01/08/2025

End Date: 31/01/2026

Mission Description:

Business architecture is crucial in aligning strategic objectives with operational capabilities. It acts as a blueprint outlining the business structure, including processes, information, and systems, ensuring coherence and efficiency. By bridging the gap between strategy and execution, business architecture translates high-level strategic goals into actionable initiatives. This alignment optimizes resource utilization, fosters agility in responding to market changes, and identifies opportunities for innovation.

Responsibilities:

• Define the target Business Architecture of CMS in line with the vision/strategy set by CMS Department management, including defining required Business Capabilities organized in Business Capability Maps.
• Elaborate and implement the Information Strategy within the CMS Department:
  • Identify and define Data Domains and assign Data Owners.
  • Define Conceptual Business Information models using standard toolkits.
  • Determine required Business Capabilities to implement the target Information Architecture.
• Identify business products and data products.
• Contribute to/lead decision-making via business architecture activities at all organizational levels, supporting capability-driven steering and priority setting with capability heatmaps.
• Lead initiatives to define and validate Architecture Blueprints in collaboration with Domain and Solution Architects, involving Business Stakeholders and Business Analysts.
• Ensure alignment of the (target) CMS Business Architecture with other departments (Assets, Strategy, Infra, CDO office, IT).
• Align IT architecture and IT roadmap with Business Architecture and Business Roadmap.
• Actively contribute to refining Architecture methodologies, frameworks, tools, and trainings.
• Participate in necessary meetings to ensure the implementation of targeted business and data architecture.
• Stay updated on the latest developments.

Requirements:

• A degree in civil or commercial engineering or a master's degree in a scientific discipline.
• Proven senior experience (more than 5 years) in business and information architecture in a similar role.
• Service-oriented with a focus on ensuring continuity.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Solid knowledge of defining a Business Architecture framework and communicating effectively with different stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of Domain Driven Design (DDD).
• Solid understanding of Software Integration Patterns, Platform technologies, Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, and Data Meshes for effective interaction with IT colleagues.
• Experience in UML, BPMN, and Archimate is essential.
• Systemic mindset and excellent communication skills.
• Initiative-taking, independent work style, and ability to coordinate transversal initiatives.
• Fluent in French and/or Dutch, and English for international collaboration.