Apex Consulting - Business Architect (Sparx Ea Modeler)

For our client Elia we are looking for a Business Architect with high proficiency in SparX Enterprise Architect.


Mission description

The department Customers, Markets and System (CMS) supports the Belgian path to a carbon-neutral society by embracing the role of policy advisor and customer partner and by designing the system of the future in which the consumer is central. At the same time, CMS guarantees the SAFe operation of the electrical system by optimizing the use of the assets, improving our visibility and our understanding of the system, developing methods and tools for stability challenges, automating complex tasks and using production and flexibility tools to implement a new market design and a powerful price signal.

This decarbonisation leads to multiple challenges:
TSOs must ensure the on- and offshore system is designed and developed allowing for timely integration of renewables and Storage, whilst ensuring secure system operations.
A paradigm shift (from generation follows consumption to demand follows intermittent generation) is needed from a supplier-centric market design, where flexibility is locked by suppliers to a consumer-centric improved market design unlocking flexibility.
A Customer obsession mindset:
We must get closer than ever to our customers to identify their deepest needs, co-shape the energy transition with them and anticipate the impact of their electrification on the Grid and connect them faster.
Affordability &
cost-efficiency needs to be secured &
Embedded in our core activities, to enable maximizing welfare, keeping the cost under control, while ensuring adequacy, secure system operations and timely network development.
Via business architecture, we want to make sure that implementations realise the ambitions of Elia. Business architecture gives the framework (capabilities, high level processes, business information concepts and model, product setup) for business analysts who will refine these building blocks (e.G. in user stories, details processes, information concepts (and models), ...). All these artefacts are modeled in a central repository in SparX Enterprise Architect.

We are seeking a highly skilled SparX Enterprise Architect Modeler to join our team.

As a SparX Enterprise Architect Modeler, you will be responsible for introducing, maintaining and keeping consistent these complex business architecture models and diagrams in SparX Enterprise Architect software
Capability diagrams, containing a multi-level overview of capabilities.
High level processes and modeling of information flows between the capabilities.
Diagrams containing information concepts and models.
Diagrams containing business and data product models

Required activities
You will support and collaborate closely with (4) business architects located in the same team. The business architect (or other roles) will provide you with the necessary input (PowerPoint and/or Visio drawings, ...) so you can implement these models in EA.
You will monitor the architectural artefacts generated by the business analysts (+/- 35) in order to make sure that these business analysts outputs are consistent in the overall business architecture referential. Focus is on impacted business architecture artefacts (e.G. capability map, high level processes, information model).
It's a key element of your job to manage our business architecture referential. All models and diagrams should be consistent at any moment, and in line with the business architecture metamodel we have put in place at Elia.
You install the necessary means and processes to guarantee this consistency.
You participate to modeling governance. E.G. you elaborated and defend improvement (and/or simplification) initiatives. You update the models and diagrams according to latest changes of the metamodel.
You give ad hoc modeling and tooling support to business architects (and analysts if required).
You are able to create high-quality reports and dashboards enabling quality monitoring of information in our referential.
Stay up-to-date with industry best practices and emerging technologies.
(Participate) to creation of training material on Enterprise Architect.

Required profile
Proven experience as a SparX Enterprise Architect Modeler or similar role.
Understanding of business architecture principles and methodologies.
Proficiency in SparX Enterprise Architect toolset:
you are a real expert in the tool and are able to customize the tool if necessary (via scripting etc).
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
Experience with modeling languages such as UML, BPMN, ArchiMate and architecture frameworks like Togaf are considered a plus.
Certification in SparX Enterprise Architect is desirable.