Principal Consultant - Business Architect

Why join DXC Technology? 

 
DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) helps global companies run their mission-critical systems and operations while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private and hybrid clouds. The world's largest companies and public sector organizations trust DXC to deploy services to drive new levels of performance, competitiveness, and customer experience across their IT estates. Learn more about how we deliver excellence for our customers and colleagues at DXC.com. 

DXC’s Business Transformation team play a critical role in enabling our clients to transform their digital landscape. Through a human-centric approach, our team partner with major corporate and government clients to co-create, implement and embed innovative and effective strategies and organisational change designed to bring their vision and technologies to life.

To support Australian businesses evolve and grow, we are looking for an experienced Business Architect who can be an agile modeler, able to deliver incremental value and iterative deliverables that are purpose-fit for the evolving needs of our clients. Based in Sydney, you would join a passionate team of over 40 working across the country, with occasional travel requirements.

What you will be doing 

• Help clients understand their level of business and digital maturity through conversations and assessments
• Work with multiple capability and functional teams to gather and document the structure of our clients’ business and technology landscape
• Actively work between the Business & Technology disciplines to industrialise the best ideas with new digital operating models and ways of working
• Drive and facilitate the right discussions with business leaders to identify business capabilities in relation to current and future business objectives
• Partner in the strategic planning process by providing input to the scope definition of strategic initiatives leveraging capabilities, creating capability heatmaps to provide visibility to impacts, dependencies, overlaps and opportunities
• Work closely with solution/technical architects to deliver Business Architecture artefacts needed for End-to-End Business & Solution Architecture approach deliverables
• Business thinking and highly strategic in order to define practical solutions that align with our clients’ corporate strategy
• Demonstrate understanding of our offerings and services across DXC, and articulate their value propositions to our clients
• Collaborate with the sales team in client conversations to identify new opportunities.
• Support or lead bids and tenders, including proposal development, pricing and commercial terms to ensure proposed service solutions are compelling, effective and deliverable
• Facilitate internal huddles to build awareness and capabilities for Business Architecture
• Develop and mentor team members to uplift overall team capability

The skills you will bring 

• Significant experience in helping organisations understand and define their business and strategic objectives in complex and challenging business environments
• Prior experience working as a Senior Business Architect in transformational programs with operating model development
• Experience in Human Centred Design and Agile projects
• Ability to design and facilitate impactful customer workshops
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills: the ability to impart and convey information in a confident, clear and straight-forward manner
• To consistently display a positive, enthusiastic, co-operative and service focused attitude
• Effectively manage priorities, deliverables and timelines with little need for escalation
• Banking and Insurance industry experience highly regarded

Desired experience creating or applying frameworks for

• Strategy – business case development and benefits identification; business capability and diagnostics modelling
• Architecture – business process capture, design and re-engineering; requirements management through elicitation, analysis, user stories, traceability and lifecycle; user experience journeys; and conceptual data modelling
• Deployment and Operations – value stream mapping and benefits realisation

Your working environment  

In alignment with our commitment to fostering a flexible and dynamic work environment, we have adopted a hybrid working approach that acknowledges the importance of in-person collaboration while recognising that the determination of your work location will be based on a range of factors to ensure both individual preferences and operational requirements are met. 

Our culture and benefits 

DXC is committed to building better futures for our customers, colleagues, environment, and communities. We take care of each other and foster a culture of inclusion, belonging and corporate citizenship. We put this to action developing and implementing societal initiatives within our Social Impact Practice. #WeAreDXC 

As an employer of choice, our “people first” philosophy means we offer competitive remuneration, benefits, training and career opportunities that reflect our commitment to improving the lives of our employees, and the communities in which we live and work. Some of these include; 
 

• Extensive resources to support your onboarding and continual development including DXC University 
• We know that great people refer great people. We will reward you when you bring your friends and family to work at DXC 
• More time to do the things you love with flexible leave options, including purchased leave 
• Take time to give back with charitable and emergency services volunteer days 
• Well-being matters to us and our Employee Assistance Program is there to support you and your family 
• And of course, all the basics; novated leasing, discounted health insurance, paid parental leave and many other discounts 

How to apply & our commitment to you in return 

If you would like to be part of a culture that drives innovation, delivers results, rewards performance and encourages ideas, then please press the "Apply Now" button to submit your resume. 

In return, we agree to ensure a hiring process that is enjoyable, thorough, and fair. We strive to provide an environment that lets you thrive and show off the very best version of yourself, while learning about us at the same time.  

Interviews and onboarding are conducted online, as part of us being a virtual-first company. 

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer  

DXC is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we welcome submissions from people from all walks of life. We celebrate our diversity and recognise it is the unique contributions of our people that give us our edge. We stand by the ‘bring your whole-self to work’ philosophy. It is our inclusive culture that powers our results, and our company grows only if our people grow.  

Accommodation of special needs for qualified candidates may be considered within the framework of the DXC Accommodation Policy. In addition, DXC Technology is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to support qualified individuals with physical and mental disabilities.