Business Architect Associate

Role Overview

• Assist in defining and evolving business architecture strategy based on situational awareness of enterprise scenarios, motivations, and constraints.
• Capture tactical and strategic enterprise goals, mapping them to metrics for ongoing governance and traceability.
• Describe the healthcare system’s primary business functions—distinguishing customer-facing, supplier-related, business execution, and business management functions.
• Define strategic, core, and support processes that transcend functional and organizational boundaries; identify external entities (e.g., patients, payers, suppliers, partner systems) and articulate people, resources, and controls involved.
• Analyze current-state vs. target-state business and technology architectures; contribute to roadmap development and phased implementation plans.
• Collaborate with client business and IT teams through shadowing, workshops, and process mapping to understand workflows and identify automation use cases.
• Evaluate opportunities from financial, operational, risk, compliance, and technical perspectives.
• Build and maintain a prioritized pipeline of automation opportunities aligned to program goals and enterprise strategy.
• Design and develop automation architectures and reusable components that incorporate best practices and design guidelines.
• Address upstream and downstream workflows, including data inputs/outputs (e.g., exports), exception management, and integrations with clinical, revenue cycle, and administrative systems.
• Produce documentation across the lifecycle: assessments, solution/design documents, technical specifications, test plans, and performance dashboards.
• Provide input to project management and governance to ensure timely, compliant delivery of automation solutions.
• Consult on institute-facing projects; maintain awareness of scope, progress, risks, and interdependencies.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years-Relevant experience* (Required)
• Basic understanding of workflow or process mapping tools (e.g., Visio, Lucidchart).
• Interest in automation technology (e.g., Power Automate, UiPath) and willingness to learn.
• Strong communication, documentation, and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively and follow established standards and procedures.
• Relevant experience may be a combination of related work experience and/or degree obtained (Associate's Degree = 2 years relevant experience; Bachelor's Degree = 4 years relevant experience; Master's Degree = 6 years ).

Benefits

• Healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners.
• Encouragement of an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality.