Sandton: Enterprise Process Architect / BPM Specialist (ARIS, Celonis) posted by Praesignis

Our client in the banking industry is looking for a CoE Specialist to join their team. The successful candidate will drive end-to-end traceability across business, systems and data, enabling improved decision-making, cost optimisation, operational efficiency and reduced risk. This role directly contributes to strengthening delivery performance across federated tribes and supports the organisations cost-to-income and digital transformation objectives. Role Purpose Responsible for defining, implementing and evolving the enterprise process architecture and BPM capability across the organisation, enabling end-to-end traceability from strategy to execution and supporting data-driven optimisation, automation and governance. Key Responsibilities Define and maintain enterprise process architecture across all levels (L0L4), aligned to business strategy and value chains. Establish and govern a single source of truth for process models, taxonomy and standards. Design and implement BPM governance frameworks, process ownership structures and operating models. Lead enterprise BPM maturity uplift initiatives and embed governance, compliance and audit readiness. Own and optimise process platforms such as ARIS, Celonis or equivalent tools. Enable end-to-end traceability across business processes, systems, data and controls. Collaborate closely with Solution Architects and Enterprise Architects to ensure alignment between process design and system architecture. Ensure process models explicitly reflect system interactions, integration points and data flows. Identify process inefficiencies, automation opportunities and optimisation potential. Define and track process performance metrics including cost, cycle time, automation and compliance. Build and support a Process Engineering Community of Practice (CoP). Provide training, standards and modelling guidance to ensure consistent adoption. Minimum Requirements Proven experience in enterprise process architecture design and BPM capability implementation. Strong knowledge of BPMN modelling standards and process lifecycle management. Hands-on experience with ARIS, Celonis or equivalent BPM/process mining tools. Experience linking business processes to systems, applications, data and architecture artefacts. Experience working with Solution Architecture and/or Enterprise Architecture teams. Understanding of system integration patterns and end-to-end traceability (process to system to data). Strong analytical capability, stakeholder engagement and influencing skills. Ability to work independently and deliver across multiple business areas. Advantages Banking or financial services experience. Experience in federated or agile delivery environments. Exposure to process mining, automation and digital transformation initiatives.