The business architect role is the enterprise system architect role responsible for architecting the business architecture in support of the business management responsibilities of the business manager role.
The business manager role uses the business architecture in support of business capability management of the business capability system.
The business architect role as a team member has inter-dependencies with other team members and what the others do. With the knowledge of how everyone fits in and the setting of expectations between everyone, the team will be a team and will be able to best utilize the talent of the individuals.
As shown in Figure 46 – Business Architect Concept Diagram, the business architect role has architecture responsibilities for
and is interconnected with and interdependent on the
- enterprise architect role
- process architect role
- information architect role
- IT architect role
- system architect role
- service architect role
Figure 46 – Business Architect Concept Diagram
EA Practitioners in the Business Architect Role
In practice, the business architect role can be divided by the specialty areas into the sub-roles of strategy architect role, markets architect role, capabilities architect role, talent architect role, operations architect role and business management architect role.
When the business architect role is divided into sub-roles, the business architect role enables and assures these architectural roles are integrated in their efforts so their architectures integrate and with other architectures outside the business architecture.
It should be noted in practice, the business architect role is often fully or partially combined with the enterprise architect role or other architectural roles to provide an organizationally needed job (a “specialty”) to address special needs and other organizational needs and limitations of the organization.