Expert Business Architect (PROJ-4664)

Key duties and responsibilities

 Business Architects will exercise a significant degree of independence and perform the following deliverables including but not limited to:

• Focusing business architecture activities and delivering artefacts as key inputs into the agency's strategy, investment roadmaps. This also includes engaging and supporting Strategic Delivery and Co-Design activities to support the development of future regulatory reforms, trade initiatives, future reporting models and new policy proposals.
• Implementing structured business architectural and analytical approaches to mapping business capability, including development of context artefacts comprising business, motivation models, operating models and critical operational touch-points. These will be used to communicate investment alignment with the portfolio's Investment Model, Enterprise Architecture and ACIC Strategy.
• Identifying and defining opportunities for ongoing trade modernisation, aligned to existing or proposed ACIC strategies and policy development. Formulating these opportunities as part of existing regulatory reform roadmap and overall trade modernisation investment roadmap (in collaboration with Strategic Policy and Future Business Model sections).
• Supporting future technology research by exposing requirements for maturing business capabilities that depend on business value chains and processes, information assets, operational models, regulatory constraints and opportunities.
• Facilitating working partnerships and co-design workshops with ACIC stakeholders and subject experts to elicit business capabilities, bridge common understanding and contribute to cohesive program design and management.
• Contributing principally to existing business-capability based blueprinting that articulate complex current and future state business operating models in both narrative and visual form.
• Business Architects will be expected to transfer skills and knowledge to departmental staff and ensure appropriate documentation is stored in accordance with the Department’s recordkeeping policy and practices.
• Participate in the ACIC Community of Practice.
• Undertaking official travel interstate, if required (rarely).

Business Architects will be responsible for producing the following deliverables, including but not limited to:

• Business Specifications;
• Functional Specifications;
• Risk Management Plans;
• Status reports;
• Technical Specifications.
• Mapping business Capability
• Developing Artefacts

Technical skills

• Enterprise Architecture Principles&Frameworks- Understanding of TOGAF, government architecture principles, strategy to execution flows.
• BPMN & Other Modelling Standards- Ability to create process maps, capability models, and user journey maps using consistent notation.
• Service Design&HumanCentred Design Practices- Familiarity with personas, journey mapping, codesign workshops, and problemframing.
• Data & Integration Awareness- Understanding how data flows, integrations, APIs, and iteration planning

Essential criteria

• Stakeholder relationship management: Level 5 (SFIA) Deals with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned, and the collection and dissemination of relevant information. Implements stakeholder engagement/communications plan. Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure the effectiveness of stakeholder management. Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships
• Business process improvement: Level 6 (SFIA) Plans and leads strategic, large and complex business process improvement activities aligned with automation, or exploiting existing or new technologies. Develops organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for business process improvement. Leads the introduction of techniques, methodologies and tools to meet business requirements, ensuring consistency across all user groups. Leads the development of organisational capabilities for business process improvement and ensures adoption and adherence to policies and standards
• Enterprise and business architecture: Level 5 (SFIA) Develops models and plans to drive the execution of the business strategy, taking advantage of opportunities to improve business performance. Contributes to creating and reviewing a systems capability strategy which meets the business's strategic requirements. Determines requirements and specifies effective business processes, through improvements in technology, information or data practices, organisation, roles, procedures and equipment
• Strategic planning: Level 5 (SFIA) Collates information and creates reports and insights to support strategy management processes. Ensures that all stakeholders are aware of the strategic management approach and timetables. Provides support and guidance to help stakeholders adhere to the approach. Develops and communicates plans to drive forward the strategy and related change planning. Contributes to the development of policies, standards and guidelines for strategy development and planning.

Desirable criteria

• Requirements definition and management: Level 5 (SFIA) Plans and drives scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for large, complex initiatives. Selects, adopts and adapts appropriate requirements definition and management methods, tools and techniques. Contributes to the development of organisational methods and standards for requirements management. Obtains input from, and agreement to requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders. Negotiates with stakeholders to manage competing priorities and conflicts. Establishes requirements baselines. Ensures changes to requirements are investigated and managed.
• Specialist advice: Level 5 (SFIA) Provides definitive and expert advice in their specialist area. Actively maintains recognised expert level knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms. Oversees the provision of specialist advice by others. Consolidates expertise from multiple sources, including third-party experts, to provide coherent advice to further organisational objectives. Supports and promotes the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within the organisation.
• Prior experience in an intelligence or law-enforcement agency is valuable but not essential. Please note whether you have prior experience working within the Intelligence community: this could include cross agency stakeholder engagement, including policing and or other government agencies more broadly, e.g. experience in agencies such as Department of Home Affairs. What role did you play, and note the number of years and level of experience.