Head of Business Architecture – HR needed at NTT Ltd.

• The Head of Business Architect – HR bridges the gap between People & Culture and IT functions by aligning to business objectives with IT systems, data flows and architecture standards. 
• This role ensures People & Culture processes are effective enabled by technology solutions and supports regulatory, reporting, planning and financial control requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Alignment:

• Understand the business strategy and operating model, and roadmap the realization of the target operating model, including practices delivering through countries, main portfolio models (IT Services, Tech Solutions, Capex Intensive), and scenarios for shared services.
• Align business and solution architecture with with enterprise architecture and functions / business unit’s strategy and organization’s goals
• Lead efforts to leverage emerging technologies and industry trends to shape future state architecture and drive transformation initiatives

End-to-End Transformation Architecture Design & Development:

• Manage the business process strategy, standards, taxonomy, and frameworks to standardize and implement. Liaise with BPOs who own operational processes to assess changes needed and relevant impacts to business, data, and system
• Understand the best practice or fit-to-standard processes provided by our vendors and map to current ways of working in order to roadmap how to adopt more standard processes where necessary
• Direct both business and solution architecture frameworks, ensuring integrated business processes, systems and technologies
• Identify and drive opportunities for process improvements, automation and innovation to achieve efficiencies and competitive advantage

Cross-functional Collaboration :

• Engage with executive leadership, business units and technology teams to understand business objectives and translate into architecture strategies

Governance & Compliance:

•  Establish and enforce architecture principles, standards and governance frameworks to ensure alignment and consistency across business and IT landscape.
• Mange risks associated to business transformation, ensuring architecture solutions comply to regulatorily requirements and mitigate operational risk

Change Management & Innovation:

• Analyze business maturity models and differences across OpCos to understand change impact, solution impact, and where to standardize. Ensuring smooth transition during business transformation efforts through effective communication, training and support

Measure Strategic Effectiveness:

• Identify measurements to track performance and impact on business outcomes

Leadership & Mentoring:

• Lead and mentor teams and foster collaborative and growth focused environment to drive business transformation initiatives.

Knowledge and Attributes

• Seasoned knowledge of multi-vendor service integrations and cross-functional software, OS’s, and infrastructure designs.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, coupled with excellent interpersonal skills to build solid working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to develop and leverage seasoned specialist knowledge of reference architectures.
• Ability to maintain knowledge of trends and developments in technology domains.
• Seasoned ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams such as sales, product, delivery, etc.

Academic Qualifications and Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in People Mangement.
• Beneficial to have certification and working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, COBIT, etc.).
• Beneficial – Six Sigma Black Belt
• Safe Scaled Agile certification advantageous.

Required Experience

• Seasoned professional in people & culture leadership, or operations experience within a large-scale (preferably multinational) and experience in people & culture technology transformation projects.
• Seasoned client engagement and consulting experience coupled with solid experience in client needs assessment and change management.
• Seasoned experience in integrating solutions for the people & culture business domain, enterprise concerns, industry standards, established patterns, and best practices.
• Seasoned experience working in an agile development environment.
• Seasoned experience in developing, selling, and delivering technical solutions in HR