Business Architect Enterprise Architecture Analyst

Job Description

Job Title: Business Architect (Enterprise Architecture Analyst)Location: South GloucestershireWorking Model: Primarily Remote (some travel may be required TBC) Duration: 12 Months MinimumInside IR35 via Umbrella: Paystream, Advance, GiantContractor must:

• Must have solid experience of Model driven Architecture MDA and applying EA frameworks. An IT/Systems Generalist probably with a background in Business Analysis and broad technical understanding.
• must be SOLE UK National with SC clearance

Primary PurposeFit for the Future

• Babcock Naval Marine delivers the through life engineering support of the Royal Navys complex maritime assets ranging from managed inventories of types of equipment up to whole ships and nuclear submarines.
• This role sits within Babcock Digital Solutions working within the Submarine Support Engineering division of Babcock Naval Marine. Within the Digital Solutions team, we deliver collaborative solutions for use by the entire UK defence maritime enterpriseincluding the customer and other industry participants.
• The Enterprise Architecture Analysts are responsible for developing and implementing Digital Solutions Enterprise Architecture capability offering (Strategy, Business, Applications & Data). Whilst the Digital Business Architects organisationally sit withinthe data exploitation team, they report day-to-day to the appropriate leads in the programmes to which they are assigned. They have a reporting lines to the Enterprise Architecture Lead and the Head of Service Delivery who in turn has responsibility for EnterpriseArchitecture (Infrastructure & Technology).

Accountabilities

• Accountable for the delivery of enterprise architecture to underpin digital transformation of the Submarine Support Engineering (SSE) business.

Principal Tasks & Responsibilities Enterprise Architecture (Strategy, Business, Applications & Data) Delivery

• Support Babcock and their customers in the delivery of business transformation programmes
• Participate in the delivery of enterprise architecture projects and the application of architectural practices in other Babcock delivery projects
• Contribution to the selection/definition of context-appropriate architectural meta-models including industry standard (e.g. Archimate), extended/adapted and bespoke.
• Develop architectures for the Babcock business(es) and other customers
• Development of as-is and to-be architectures to support assessment of solution options and transformation programme / portfolio management.
• Liaison with internal and customer leadership in a consultative capacity to assist in development and communication of transformation strategy
• The provision of advice and recommendations, based on expertise and experience, to address client needs in both enterprise architecture practice and wider project delivery
• Analysis of current (as-is) business (process & organisation), information and applications to create associated architectural models and viewpoints - Involving bottom-up analysis of physical artefacts (e.g. database schema) and review of documentation(e.g. Quality Management systems, specifications, etc.) supported by interviews and workshops with subject matter experts.
• Develop and maintain architecture management plans for each project/programme
• Assist business development in production of bid material for delivery of enterprise architecture services and applying MDA principles to other bid responses
• Application of systems thinking and architectural principles to support project teams with development of user and system requirements and solution specifications including high level designs, functional specifications, etc.

Experience / Qualification Required Academic

• Holds an Engineering, Business or Computing degree and/or equivalent vocational experience

Experience

• Operating in a commercial customer facing role
• Able to guide and influence customer understanding and thinking
• Significant practical experience of the application of model driven architecture (framework agnostic) with particular focus on business, application and data layers of enterprise architecture
• Experience of software solution delivery lifecycles
• Knowledge and experience of software application architectures to support bottom-up abstraction of logical architecture from current physical solution artefacts
• Experience of designing or adapting frameworks to meet specific problem domains and project needs
• Experience of derivation of user and system requirements from model driven architecture
• Domain experience in engineering and asset management preferably the context of any of naval marine, defence equipment & support or nuclear (defence and civil)
• Experience of modelling using MOOD, Sparx EA and Archi or similar/equivalent tools

Management Experience

• Project management
• Leading multi-disciplinary delivery teams
• Mentoring and leading team members in application of model driven architecture

Mandatory Courses

• Site Induction
• Fire Safety
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
• Display Screen Equipment
• Business Ethics & Conduct Awareness
• Acceptable Use Policy
• Cyber-Security
• Data Protection
• Trade Controls Awareness