Business Architect

Job Description

Appealing Points:

• Translate Business Strategy into AI & Data-Driven Execution Convert operating models and strategic objectives into clear functional and non-functional requirements aligned with enterprise AI and data platforms.
• Strong Business Architecture & Technical Alignment Exposure Develop process models, capability maps, and domain models while collaborating closely with solution and technical architects.
• Bilingual Strategic Facilitator in Regulated Environments Lead workshops, ensure regulatory alignment (especially in telecom), and support executive communication in both Japanese and English.

Annual Salary: 8 million yen and above

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyze, and document business requirements using structured requirements engineering and domain modelling techniques
• Translate business objectives and operating model needs into clear functional and non-functional requirements aligned to technical architectures
• Develop and maintain business process models, capability models, value stream maps, and domain models
• Translate business strategy into AI-, data-, and analytics-driven use cases, ensuring alignment with enterprise AI and data platforms
• Collaborate closely with solution and technical architects to ensure business requirements are accurately reflected in application, data, and AI architectures
• Facilitate business and technical workshops, design sessions, and requirement walkthroughs to drive clarity and stakeholder consensus
• Produce high-quality technical and business documentation, including requirement specifications, architecture-aligned narratives, and decision artifacts
• Ensure requirements traceability across business, architecture, and delivery artifacts throughout the implementation lifecycle
• Provide ongoing clarification, prioritization input, and decision support to delivery teams during implementation
• Ensure alignment with regulatory, compliance, and industry constraints, particularly in telecommunications and similarly regulated domains
• Support executive-level communication through clear business storytelling and structured documentation

Job Qualification:

• 3 to 7 years of experience in business analysis, business architecture, or solution architecture roles
• Strong expertise in business analysis, requirements engineering, and domain modelling
• Proven ability to translate business strategy into AI-, data-, and analytics-driven initiatives
• Working understanding of enterprise data platforms, analytics ecosystems, and AI platforms
• Experience collaborating with technical and solution architects on application, data, and AI architecture alignment
• Strong capability in business process modelling, capability modelling, and operating model design
• Hands-on experience facilitating workshops, design sessions, and cross-functional working groups
• High-quality technical writing skills for producing clear, structured, and architecture-aligned documentation
• Familiarity with regulatory, compliance, and industry constraints, especially in telecommunications
• Strong analytical thinking, stakeholder engagement, and cross-team collaboration skills
• Fluent Japanese proficiency – mandatory
• Business-level English proficiency – mandatory

Nice to Have

• Prior experience supporting large-scale AI, data, or platform transformation programs
• Exposure to enterprise architecture frameworks or modelling standards
• Experience working in highly governed or regulated enterprise environments
• Background in product management or product ownership role

Company Description

The company has a singular focus on the Connectedness vertical, partnering with the leading creators of our hyper-connected world. Customers range from telecom operators, digital/multi-service providers (D/MSPs), and technology and digital platform companies in the business of connectedness. The company builds, integrates, and operates solutions enabling next-generation technologies and innovations. Services global leaders including Verizon, CenturyLink, Adtran, Vodafone, Liberty Global, Windstream, Virgin Media, Rogers, and Deutsche Telekom among many others. The company’s customers today help more than a billion people and five billion devices stay connected.