Senior Business Architect

Role Overview

• Provide direction and guidance on the business architecture and monitors implemented strategic plans and progress towards strategic goals.
• Support Senior Strategy Officer and line of business senior executives with leveraging insights to inform strategic choices definition, fact-based prioritization analyses, and business opportunity assessments.
• Execute business architecture approaches to facilitate business strategy.
• Translate/decompose/deconstruct and visualize for the alignment of the organizational spans and layers (i.e., strategy blueprints) with business executives.
• Contribute to the design of and facilitates current and target state assessments to inform and visualize internal business capability maturity needs and prioritization over the strategic horizon (i.e., capability-based planning).
• Apply and utilize business modeling methods to ensure a consistent and complete business knowledgebase and blueprints for planning, portfolio, and executive decision-making and analysis.
• Serve as a conduit within the business, across business lines, and extended architecture community (enterprise, technical, process, and information) in the alignment of subsequent strategies, plans, and business architecture artifacts.
• Facilitate, negotiate, and represent business' interests in maturation and investment in business architecture.
• Facilitate the creation and alignment of the business architecture framework, governing principles, and best practices.
• Contribute to the development of the business architecture metamodel and supporting tool suite, and alignment to other architecture domain metamodels and frameworks.
• Stay updated on industry trends and best practices related to business architecture.
• Ensure risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree: OR 4 years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• Minimum 6 years’ relevant business architecture experience to include practice and knowledgebase development and maturation, strategy translation/decomposition/deconstruction, capability-based planning to include business capability assessments and capability roadmap development.
• Minimum 2 years’ hands-on experience developing business architecture for large scale strategic priorities and business strategies.
• Experience executing standard business architecture approaches and leading cross-functional teams to deliver upon architecture services.
• Experience working with a diverse set of strategy, planning, and execution methods (Waterfall and Agile).
• Ability to influence and explain complex architecture recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels of the organization.
• Experience in independent development and relationship mapping between value stream maps, business capability maps, organizational graphs, and/or business strategy blueprints to present ideas and proposals for informed business decisions in pursuit of strategic outcomes.
• Knowledge and application of industry standard business and enterprise architecture meta modeling, tooling, and frameworks (BIZBOK®, TOGAF®).
• Experience in the application of business architecture standards, principles, and policies and knowledge of applicable regulations and risk management practices.

Benefits

• comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
• 401(k)
• pension
• life insurance
• parental benefits
• adoption assistance
• paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours
• various wellness programs
• career path planning and continuing education