Business Architect

**Why You'll Love Working with Tower**

At Tower, our values are the heartbeat of every interaction. We prioritize our people, fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, representing the vibrant communities we serve. We celebrate all ages, genders, sexual orientations, races, religions, and everything else that makes our culture unique. Proud holders of the Rainbow and DV Free Ticks, we are committed to inclusivity and safety.

We are on a mission to lead our industry into a customer-centric future with innovation and disruptive thinking. As a unique Kiwi and Pacific insurance provider with over 150 years of history, our roots trace back to Dunedin.

**What you will be doing**

The purpose of this position is to provide a structured approach to transforming and optimizing Tower's business processes and capabilities.

As the Business Architect, you will ensure that the business architecture aligns with the strategic goals and objectives of the organization, facilitating informed decision making and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

This role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to understand business needs, developing strategic solutions, and ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.

**Dive into the Heart of Your Responsibilities**:

- Develop and maintain a comprehensive capability model, the Business Architect will enable Tower to respond effectively to business changes, regulatory requirements and market opportunities.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze business requirements, translating them into architecture models and solutions
- Assist with future planning for Tower systems, including budgeting, change management QA, working with Infrastructure, Solution Architects and/or the Project and Squad Managers
- Provide proactive suggestions for effective maintenance of Tower systems e.g., opportunities for performance improvement, archiving, automation

**What You'll Need**

**To be successful in this role, you will also demonstrate the following**:

- Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in business architecture, business analysis, or a related field within the insurance industry.
- Degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field. A master's degree or relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF) is a plus.
- Proven track record of developing and implementing business architecture frameworks and models.
- Experience in strategic planning and aligning business and IT strategies.
- Experience in developing and maintaining comprehensive capability models across various levels of an organization.
- Experience of systems design, development and implementation across several technology platforms with special focus on Web based environments
- A broad understanding of the latest developments in technologies, industry specific issues, competitor and vendor activity and initiatives
- Understanding and knowledge of the principles of information and enterprise architecture.
- Strong situational analysis and decision-making capability

**Our Commitment**

We pride ourselves on encouraging everyone to bring their whole selves to work, embracing diverse opinions, experiences, and backgrounds. Our commitment is to create an inclusive workplace where our people come first, feel valued, safe, and respected. If you feel comfortable doing so, please let us know early in the process.

**What we'll bring to the table**

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a range of perks and benefits to celebrate and look after our Tower employees.

**Highlights include**:

- Our people come first as we offer 16 weeks of paid leave for the primary carer and 4 weeks of paid leave partner's leave.
- A paid day off on your birthday, as well as two extra annual leave days every year and the option to buy an additional eight days of leave. So up to six weeks off
- Annual Performance Review where you get to showcase your progression.
- Wellness leave instead of sick leave so you can proactively look after your health and wellbeing
- Career growth - we promote internal capability; we also have programmes that recognise star performers.
- Flexible workplace opportunities at our beautiful 6 Green Star Fanshawe St office packed with modern technologies, stand-up desks, open space and coffee machines in two large modern kitchens with cafe-inspired dining areas.
- Discounts on Tower insurance products of up to 50%
- Free Life Insurance of up to four times your annual base salary
- Paid parental leave top up for 16 weeks.
- Retail deals and discounts with Les Mills, JB Hi-Fi, PB Tech, The Coffee Club,
- Warehouse Stationery and more