HEAD OF BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE (IT TRANSFORMATION)

DESCRIPTION

Head of Business Architecture (IT Transformation)

The Head of Business Architecture will work internally to develop the Group IT Strategy and Roadmap (leveraging our CWS product-set wherever possible) to enable the business imperatives of the Dixons Carphone group.

You will:

• Works across the business to understand the business strategies and how these can be enabled by IT
• Aggregates all IT demand to establish a group IT strategy that supports our FTSE 100 status, drives synergies, leverages CWS assets and reduces corporate risk and increases compliance
• Develops and maintains the Group IT roadmap and works with the Business Change, Business SME’s and Finance teams to develop projects and programmes to realise the IT plan
• Lead engagement activity with senior stakeholders to develop compelling and profitable solutions to business challenges and opportunities
• Translates solutions into formal recommendations and works with stakeholders to gain approval, priority and budget
• Manages the handover of projects into delivery teams and maintains the alignment of the project to the roadmap throughout the delivery process
• Manages dependencies across the roadmap
• Works cross functionally within the business to ensure solution design activity is supported by appropriate financial, operational and technical teams
• Creating business architecture models demonstrating how products, operations and systems interoperate within the business
• Ensures solutions developed across the business are aligned to enterprise architecture standards and principles, leverages common solutions and services, and meets financial targets (cost and benefits).

You will need:

Essential:-

• Extensive Business Architecture experience
• Proven technology transformation experience within a significant retail business (or similar) and having a deep knowledge of the enabling systems
• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate complex ideas in a focussed, simple and commercially relevant manner to a senior audience (up to and including ‘c’ level)
• Strong influencing skills with the ability to challenge at all levels and manage complex stakeholder relationships
• Business Analysis – inc. requirements gathering, process documentation and business case development
• Project Management across internal and external stakeholder groups
• Advanced Microsoft office skills
• Experience of a complex, fast-moving environment
• Proven team leader, having built a new, high performance team

Desirable:-

• Retail or Mobile Telcoms industry experience
• Operating Model/Business Model/Strategy development

Dixons Carphone is Europe’s number one electrical and telecommunications retailer and services company, with more than 40,000 colleagues across nine countries, including the UK and Ireland. Every day, we use our people’s expertise to reach out and help new customers. What’s more - we’re exploring extraordinary new markets, from wellness to security, so that in an ever more connected and constantly changing world, we can offer our customers the most comprehensive service.

It’s an exciting time to join us and find yourself a place in our growing success story, apply now.

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