A Global Insurance Company is looking for an experienced Senior Business Architect for the Enterprise Architecture Technology Team, to support Japan Digital Transformation.

Senior Business Architect will be the bridge b/w the Business Team and IT team for strategy and execution.

Responsibilities

- Support the definition of business and IT strategies, ensuring that these are formalized and aligned with customer needs

- Develop and maintain an architectural view of operating models that align organizational design, key processes, business capabilities, data & information and technology with strategic intent

- Establish a Business Architecture capability for Japan entities, maintain the capability and ensure it delivers business value through its use for strategic and business planning and portfolio optimization

- Participate in defining IT strategy in the alignment with business strategy and IT Roadmap

- Assist with the selection of vendor products and technologies relevant to application design giving considerations to how those solutions will be used within the broader systems landscape and skill sets required

- Work with the Strategic Projects team and entities to define a Strategic Investment Portfolio that aligns with strategic goals and the delivery of common capabilities      

- Initiative Alignment

- Strive for business simplification by standardizing and automating process and product portfolios where possible.

- Build and maintain the BA deliverables required to support initiative alignment

- Design, establish and maintain working practices, models, standards and governance for the business architecture capability

- Review initial project concepts to identify opportunities to apply business architecture design guidelines and frameworks for more business value and simplicity

- Provide architectural consulting to programs, projects and initiatives and help deliver requisite program documentation including program charters, schedules, requirements documents, specifications, design documents and testing strategies

- Working with Global Information Risk Management and Security teams

【Company Details】

Our client is one of the world's largest insurance - financial groups, trusted by over 50 million customers. The company provides various financial protections including general insurance, life insurance, retirement funds, and inheritance throughout the lifetime for individual customers, small businesses, and large companies.

【Working Hours】
9:00AM - 5:00PM Mon-Fri (Hybrid: 2 days in office and 3 days WFH every week)

【Holidays】
Saturday, Sunday, and National Holidays, Year-end and New Year Holidays, Paid Holidays, Other Special Holidays

【Services / Benefits】

Social insurance, Transportation Fee, No smoking indoors allowed (Designated smoking area), etc.

- Business knowledge and enterprise architecture experience like - design, principles, and artifact & deliverables

- Propose and deliver most suitable architectural solution to IT that contributes to generate extra output and results and support the company strategic goals

- Design front-to-end architecture solutions using leading edge technology to reform and advance Japan entities’ local target IT architecture

- Listens to customer needs, seeks their feedback and acts to be available, attentive, and reliable

- Provides clear and specific performance objectives, standards and accountability to team members

- Challenges the status quo and seeks continuous improvement of processes and systems of own work area