Job Description
Hello Future Business Architect,

• RMB is a place where exceptional people create their own opportunities by challenging the conventional and driving sustainable impact.
• United by our proud heritage, strong ethics and philosophy of Traditional values. Innovative ideas, it’s the magic of our people and culture that sets us apart.
• Now, is the time to imagine your next move with South Africa’s number one employer in Financial Services for 2025, where you can embrace the power of collective thinking to unlock unique opportunities for our clients and society.
• In this role, you will be required to maintain and enhance Business Architecture within the relevant business area; work closely with the technical architects to ensure the data, solution and application architecture is in line with the business architecture; and implement according to enterprise strategy, business strategy and platform thinking.

Are You Someone Who Can:

• Provide input and guidance into various business strategies.
• Develop strategies aligned to business strategy.
• Work with relevant stakeholders to develop a conceptual view of business solutions and capabilities required to support the business strategy.
• Demonstrate the holistic architecture that will align technology architecture, business operations to the overall FirstRand strategic direction.
• Ensure alignment of the goals and outputs of the business to cater for business operations and technological enablement.
• Apply platform thinking to business strategy and processes that are enabled by Technology through collaboration across FirstRand to build long term sustainable solutions that are scalable and customer centric.
• Promote the architecture at all relevant levels throughout the Group to socialise or obtain required approvals.
• Establish appropriate organisational bodies and relationships to achieve relevant shared learning and collaboration.
• Ensure processes align to the X principles, e.g. only 1 process to fulfil a work item, and convergence where relevant.
• Act as liaison conveying information needs of the business to Information Technology, and data constraints to the business with equal conveyance regarding business strategy and Information Technology strategy.
• Provide business help and guidance and provide motivation to the technology team and support.
• Act as an agent for change using business architecture to agitate, initiate action and challenge others via business designs and solutions.
• Apply model-based representations that can be adjusted as required to collect, aggregate or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business.
• Assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and drawings and articulate collective relevance to the organisation and to high-priority business issues.
• Negotiate trade-offs between non-quality attributes, and then obtain technology buy-in.

You Will Be An Ideal Candidate If You:

• have a Bacher of Business Administration or a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours in Business Administration
• have 6 to 8 years’ experience in Process and Business Analysis

You Will Have Access To:

• Opportunities to network and collaborate
• Challenging Work
• Opportunities to innovate