Business Architect - Process Transformation Lead

Join us as a Business Architect where you’ll play a critical role in driving process optimization and transformation across the organization. You’ll harness strategic frameworks and methodologies to identify and enhance core processes, delivering value through diagnostic and design capabilities. Your work will directly impact organizational efficiency, stakeholder engagement, and the achievement of business ambitions.

To be successful as a Business Architect, you should have experience with:

• Experience in process improvement, change management, or similar transformation roles.

• Strong knowledge of process diagnostic frameworks, stakeholder engagement, and strategy documentation.

• Proficiency in tools such as Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel) and process mapping software.

• Exceptional communication and leadership skills, with experience in matrixed environments.

Highly valued skills may include:

• Demonstrated success in leading small teams or squads in complex projects.

• Ability to manage competing priorities while ensuring the delivery of high-quality outcomes.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking abilities.

• Previous experience in large-scale transformations or business architecture methodologies.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based out of Whippany, NJ.

Purpose of the role

To collaborate with stakeholders and use data and MI to identify process optimisation opportunities for capacity creation in relevant business areas. 

Accountabilities

• Development and implementation of strategies to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of banking operations, using data led insights.
• Participation in projects and initiatives to improve performance & optimisation   efficiency and effectiveness.
• Development of reports and presentations on performance & optimisation and communicate findings to internal senior stakeholders.
• Identification of industry trends and developments, and collaboration with stakeholders across the bank to provide recommendations for change and improvement within performance and optimisation processes.
• Development and implementation of analytics and reporting performance & optimisation to mitigate risks and maintain efficient operations.
• Identification of capacity creation in operations using data and Management Information.

Vice President Expectations

• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.