Senior Business Process Architect

For our client in Zurich we are looking for a Senior Business Process Architect

Your responsibilities:
- As a key member of the CFO/COO organization, you will play a vital role in driving the alignment of business strategy to the operational and IT design (and associated process, models and roadmaps to achieve tactical and strategic delivery).
- You will have strong stakeholder management involvement and must be comfortable working with a wide range of stakeholders, at all levels, throughout the group.
- As part of the wider Portfolio Management group you will have the opportunity to make a difference and help drive transformational change throughout the organization by being involved with high calibre, high profile programs and senior stakeholders.
- Deliver objective architectural recommendations and follow-on actions to senior Change Leads and Program Managers
- On the basis of considerable delivery experience, provide pragmatic and constructive feedback; challenge program practices, assumptions and forecasts when necessary, business models, service design, processes, systems & infrastructure and the development approach: design, delivery and implementation
- Continuously improve Credit Suisse's delivery capabilities and assurance standards.
- Lead architecture workshops and focus groups for senior stakeholders

As the ideal candidate you have the following qualifications and experience:
- Proven track record of 10+ years of demonstrable solution architect experience in financial services.
- Broad business architecture knowledge that encompasses business models, service design, processes, systems & infrastructure
- Bachelor level Degree or equivalent in numerical based discipline (eg Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics etc.) or equivalent
- A hands-on practitioner with a successful track record of leading and delivering large, complex change programs encompassing business and technology change.
- Experience in modelling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques and an appreciation of how to develop a robust pragmatic architecture.
- Strong relationship building skills with the ability to act in a leadership position and to interact efficiently with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels with the organization.
- Excellent relationship, interpersonal and organizational skills with a highly client focused attitude/approach, and the ability to build strong and lasting relationships.
- Ability to visualize and create high-level operating models and other representations which present different views of the business at varying levels of detail and can be adjusted as required for complex scenarios
- Ability to translate business level information through to technical/development teams & personnel (both internal & external) - using architecture frameworks and models
- Ability to design and develop roadmaps and target operating models
- Fluent English, written and spoken

If you are interested in this position please do not hesitate to send us your CV electronically