Vice President - Business Architect - Banking (gn)

Vice President - Business Architect - Banking (gn)

For our client, a leading global universal bank with its European headquarters in Frankfurt, we are currently looking for a Vice President - Business Architect (gn) to strengthen the team.

Purpose of job

The role is responsible for shaping and advancing the future-state Business Architecture across multiple initiatives and entities, ensuring consistency with strategic goals and effective collaboration with cross‑functional stakeholders. This position blends architectural leadership with strong business analysis capabilities to develop and steer an integrated, multi‑year transformation roadmap throughout the EMEA region.

Tasks

• Drive the development of the future-state Business Architecture, encompassing capability frameworks, value chains, operating structures, and defined business services.
• Create and continuously refine the transformation roadmap, ensuring it reflects strategic objectives and is closely coordinated with Technology, Data, Compliance, and Risk functions.
• Contribute to change programmes by safeguarding alignment between project and programme designs, the defined future-state model, and the established architectural guidelines.
• Act as Project Manager, if necessary
• Coordinate internal and external project managers and align them on the common goal, track development and improvement
• Act as sparring partner for the Head of Transformation EU

Requirements

• Demonstrated track record of implementing enterprise-level business architecture in complex financial services organisations operating across multiple entities.
• Well-developed business analysis expertise, including the elicitation of requirements and the design of processes to enable detailed solution development.
• Strong communication skills and experience engaging with senior stakeholders, with the ability to influence across functions and translate complex topics into clear, actionable insights for decision-makers.