Business Architect

Employment Type:
Permanent
Location:
Aberdeen (Preferred)

Hours of Work: 37.5 hours per week, Monday
- Friday
- Hybrid working to be agreed
ASCO is undertaking a multi-year business systems transformation to modernise its core operational and financial systems, improve business processes and support future growth across existing and new markets.

• Establish and maintain programme design principles, ensuring consistent standards across all system implementations.
• Lead process discovery, current and target state mapping, requirements capture and functional design.
• Oversee business analysis, UX/UI design and solution development, ensuring quality and alignment with Group requirements.
• Manage cross-system dependencies, interfaces and sequencing, working closely with solution architects.
• Represent business architecture at design authority, challenging duplication, unnecessary complexity and inconsistent solutions.
• Own business analysis standards, templates, requirements traceability and quality assurance.
• Lead system delivery planning, including milestones, critical paths, dependencies, resources, risks and change control.
• Chair delivery meetings, manage progress and blockers, make decisions within agreed tolerances and escalation where necessary.
• Lead requirements and design approval, vendor selection, testing and defect management, ensuring solutions meet agreed business needs.
• Oversee go-live readiness, cutover, phased implementation and hypercare, ensuring effective handover to long-term system owners.
• Develop and maintain the Group's business architecture capability, supporting consistent ways of working and future business development. Minimum Competencies (Skills, Knowledge and Behaviours)
• Proven experience in business architecture or enterprise design across multiple systems, including business system implementations through to go-live.
• Experience developing design principles, target operating models, business processes and requirements across multiple delivery teams.
• Strong project delivery experience, including managing plans, dependencies, risks, change control and senior stakeholders.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams, including business analysts and contractors.
• Able to maintain Group wide design standards, identify duplication and manage differences across territories.
• Confident challenging requirements, managing scope and balancing design standards with practical business needs.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage both technical and operational stakeholders.
• Proactive in resolving issues, driving decisions and maintaining delivery progress, with an understanding of how AI can improve business processes.

• Degree or equivalent experience

• Background in logistics, supply chain, marine, energy services or industrial services.
• Delivery across multiple countries or legal entities.
• Knowledge of fast-growing, investor-backed businesses.
• Understanding of multi-territory solutions using configuration rather than country-specific customisation.
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.
• Exposure to ERP or core operational platform replacements.
• Knowledge of environments with strict audit and regulatory requirements.
• Understanding of user experience and interface standards alongside business architecture.
• Knowledge of Agile and Waterfall delivery approaches.
• BCS Business Architecture Certificate.