Head of Architecture Strategy, Business Architecture

Role Overview

• Drive the strategic transformation and enterprise-wide adoption of Truist’s Architecture Strategy anchored on the Truist Product & Platform Architecture (TPPA)
• Develop, evangelize and institutionalize TPPA as the unifying construct for Truist’s enterprise model and blueprint for aligning business products, services, and processes directly with technology capabilities
• Define and manage the enterprise taxonomy and business architecture components underpinning TPPA to drive consistency and provide aligned insights to guide enterprise-wide strategic, operational, technical, and risk focused decisions and execution
• Codify and govern the TPPA layered architecture model (Business Consumables, Enabling Platforms, Enterprise Platforms, Enabling Functions)
• Create and maintain the TPPA registry and business architecture taxonomy and meta model linking products, platforms, processes, and costs
• Establish TPPA as the “Rosetta Stone” linking Truist’s business products and their required external/internal services to the Truist process inventory and capability models
• Align business consumable products (e.g., Commercial Real Estate) maps to enabling platforms (e.g., Origination, Servicing) and enterprise platforms (e.g., Cloud, Data, Integration)
• Drive end-to-end traceability across the business, operations, and technology stack such as from client journeys to APIs, data contracts, and infrastructure patterns
• Inform Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) and activity-based costing for architecture and platform investments in support of total-cost-of-ownership optimization and platform rationalization
• Incorporate TPPA into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) from agile product cadences through architecture guardrails and compliance automation
• Serve as TPPA Business Product Owner to drive instantiation of TPPA into ServiceNow and the implementation of standardized lineage and evidence collection via Common Services Data Model (CSDM)
• Serve as talent manager for the Architecture Strategy team with responsibility for building and maintaining the team from the ground up through hiring (internal/external) and ongoing teammate management and growth development

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM or Business, or equivalent education and related training
• Proven experience mapping business products and processes to technology capabilities at scale
• Familiarity with BIAN, ISO 20022, and agile delivery frameworks (e.g. SAFe)
• Strong financial acumen for investment planning and cost optimization
• Twenty years of architecture, design, delivery, or service planning and management experience, with a minimum of ten years in the banking/financial services domain
• Comprehensive experience with various architectural domains such as application, data, infrastructure, security, and integration
• Demonstrated experience leading development of strategic business or technology direction and architecture vision for a large organization
• Experience in developing target states and roadmaps that align to short and long-term business goals
• Ten years of previous management experience
• Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models
• Demonstrated ability to drive decisions
• Strong analytical and broad architectural skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong negotiation/facilitation skills (both internally and with external vendors)
• Significant knowledge of current and emerging architecture principles, methodologies, and tools
• Demonstrated competency in strategic thinking with ability to differentiate feasible from academic solutions
• Demonstrated thought-leadership skills with the ability to translate high-level business planning information into application needs/solutions
• Demonstrated proficiency in basic computer applications, such as Microsoft Office software products
• Ability to travel, occasionally overnight

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• SDLC
• ServiceNow

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability
• Accidental death and dismemberment
• Tax-preferred savings accounts
• 401k plan
• Vacation days
• Sick days
• Paid holidays
• Potential for pension plan, stock units, deferred compensation