Business Architect

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The ‘Customers, Markets and System (CMS)’ department at our client supports the Belgian path to a carbon-neutral society by

• embracing the role of policy advisor and customer partner and designing the system of the future in which the consumer is central.

• guaranteeing the safe operation of the electrical system by optimizing the use of the assets, improving our understanding of the system, developing methods and tools for stability challenges, automating complex tasks and using production and flexibility tools to implement a new market design and a powerful price signal.

This decarbonisation leads to multiple challenges:

• TSOs must ensure the on- and offshore system is designed and developed allowing for timely integration of renewables and storage, whilst ensuring secure system operations. 

• A paradigm shift is needed from a supplier-centric market design, where flexibility is locked by suppliers to a consumer-centric improved market design unlocking flexibility. A Customer obsession mindset: We must get closer than ever to our customers to identify their deepest needs, co-shape the energy transition with them and anticipate the impact of their electrification on the grid and connect them faster.

• Affordability & cost-efficiency needs to be secured & embedded in our core activities, to enable maximizing welfare, keeping the cost under control, while ensuring adequacy, secure system operations and timely network development.

Business architecture plays a pivotal role in aligning our client’s strategic objectives with its operational capabilities. It serves as a blueprint that outlines the structure of the business, including processes, information, and systems, to ensure coherence and efficiency. By bridging the gap between strategy and execution, business architecture enables the organisation to effectively translate high-level strategic goals into actionable initiatives. This alignment ensures that resources are optimally utilized to achieve desired outcomes, fosters agility in responding to market changes, and helps identify opportunities for innovation.

Service description:

Together with business analysts, portfolio managers and program managers, the business architects are regrouped in a central department ‘Strategy Implementation and Transformation Office (SITO)’ team within our client. The profile we are looking for will act as a Business Architect focusing on our Customers, Markets and System (CMS) department.

Duties will include the following:

• Definition of the target Business Architecture of CMS in line with the vision / strategy defined by the management of the CMS Department; this includes the definition of the required Business Capabilities (organized in Business Capability Maps) to realize the vision / strategy,

• Further elaboration and implementation of the Information Strategy within the CMS Department:

  • Identification and definition of

    Data Domains

    and assignment of Data Owners,

  • Defining

    Conceptual Business Information models

    using our client’s standard toolkits,

  • Determining the required Business Capabilites to implement the target Information Architecture

• Identification of business products and data products,

• contribution to/lead decision making via business architecture activities(s) at all levels in the organization. For example: support capability driven steering and priority setting by providing the necessary capability heatmaps.

• Take the lead for initiatives to define and validate Architecture Blueprints – in collaboration with Domain and Solution Architects with strong involvement of Business Stakeholders and Business Analysts; enable Domain and Solution Architects to define appropriate (digital) solutions,

• ensure the alignment of the (target) CMS Business Architecture with the other departments (Assets, Strategy, Infra, CDO office, IT)

• Ensure alignment of IT architecture and IT roadmap with Business Architecture and Business Roadmap

• Actively contribute to the refinement of Architecture methodologies, frameworks, tools and trainings,

• animate and/or actively participate in the necessary meetings to ensure the good implementation of the targeted business and data architecture

• keep abreast of the latest developments.

Requirements:

• a degree in civil or commercial engineering or a master's degree in a scientific discipline.

• Knowledge on Customer, Markets and System activities (utilities sector) is a major advantage.

• proven senior (more than 5 years) experience in business and information architecture in a similar role.

• service-oriented with a view to ensuring continuity.

• an excellent stakeholder manager.

• a solid knowledge on how to define a Business Architecture framework and how to communicate in a comprehensible way to the different stakeholders,

• a solid understanding of Domain Driven Design (DDD),

• a solid understanding of Software Integration Patterns, Platform technologies, Data Warehouses, Data Lakes and Data Meshes allowing a fluent interaction with colleagues of the IT-department,

• Experience in UML, BPMN and Archimate is a must

• an systemic mind and are an excellent communicator.

• take the initiative, work independently and coordinate transversal initaitives

• fluent French and Dutch. Fluent in English, to collaborate internationally.

OUR OFFER

• Contractual flexibility, a permanent contract or a freelance assignment;

• Flexible working hours with the possibility of teleworking (1 to 3 days a week);

• A team of enthusiastic, professional and talented colleagues in a good mood and atmosphere;

• Personalized career coaching to support your development;

• A company with a pleasant, dynamic and innovative working atmosphere.

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