Business Architect
The role of the Business Architect
The level of Business Architects varies, though. The job can be anything from Business Information Analysts and Process Architects to Business Management Consultants.
A Business Architect at best works at a strategic level, designing total business concepts for fundamental strategic business changes from the perspective of the Dragon1 open EA Method.
If you want, you can download this job description for Business Architect [PDF] and use it for your internal job descriptions. If you want to use the job profile commercially, you need to first contact the Dragon1 Foundation.
Key Tasks
- Translates strategic developments within the organization and in the market, such as laws & regulations and risk management, into consequences for the business architectures of the company and its affiliated labels.
- Uses architectural designs as a bridge between mission and vision on the one hand and policy and development on the other.
- Develops and manages the process and business architectures from the strategy.
- Designs, describes, and implements processes, businesses, and products.
- Anchors (operational) risk management.
- Captures the current architectures in models.
- Examines and evaluates future architectures.
- Executes methods, techniques, and tools.
- Follows market developments in the field.
- Sets and monitors Architectural Standards.
- Develops implementation strategies.
- Tests proposed changes within projects for conflicts.
- Reports on deviations and advises on making decisions.
- Develops new methods and techniques for describing architectures and submits them for approval to management.
Business Architects.
Some specific tasks of the Business Architect are making (and helping to use) professional products, giving workshops, participating in projects, and reviewing/improving plans and projects.
Professional Products
Some important products that Business Architects create are:
A helpful collection of resources includes notes and memos, an annual plan, a roadmap, a blueprint, a vision for the structure, and domain, functional, and technical models.
Business architects also develop a range of deliverables, including concepts, distribution-chain models, architectural designs, reference models, functional specifications, cost estimates, stakeholder analyses, a master plan, user requirements, a program of requirements, scenario and impact analyses, risk assessments, views for different viewpoints, and architectural visualizations.
Dragon1 as BPM Tool
Business Architects use tools to create architectural products or deliverables. The most used tools are still: Pen, Paper, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, and MS Excel.
With these tools, business architects can create building blocks and fragments, perform business engineering, and more easily reuse parts of their architectures.
The software can be perfectly used by them as BPM Tool or AI BPMN Tool
Business Architect Training
The Academy offers training and certification in the BPM Tool and the EA Method (Practitioner and CyberSecurity Certified) for those seeking to become a Business Architect.
The Academy believes that certification after training works both ways. As a professional, you must take extra steps to pass the exam during the business architect training. This will help you master the training theory more effectively.
A certification also makes it easier to share your skills and capabilities with others. It allows you to demonstrate that you are qualified not only as an architect using the method, but also as a user of the BPM Tool.