Business Architect

Description

The Business Architect plays a key role in structuring the Corporate IT strategy, governance structure, business processes, and business information. This role aligns strategic goals and objectives with decisions regarding tools and services, business capabilities, and key business and IT initiatives. The primary focus includes the business motivations, business operations, and business analysis frameworks and related networks that link these aspects of the enterprise together. The Business Architect works to develop an integrated view of the enterprise using a repeatable approach, cohesive framework, and available industry standard techniques. This is a hybrid position that requires you to work out of the office two to three days a week.

Responsibilities

• Business Architecture Strategy
• Framework and methodology for capturing and visualizing the needs of the organization
• Business goals / enterprise strategy alignment
• Governance model for continuous review and engagement
• Technology architecture and strategy

Qualifications

• 15 or more years of IT and business/industry work experience including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management, and infrastructure planning and operations.
• A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance.
• The ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies, and cross-silo redundancies.
• The ability to apply architectural principles to business solutions.
• The ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and drawings, and articulate their collective relevance to the organization and to high-priority business issues.
• Experience using model-based representations that can be adjusted as required to collect, aggregate, or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business.
• The ability to visualize and create high-level models that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture.
• Extensive experience planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives.
• Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques.
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations.
• The ability to act as liaison conveying information needs of the business to IT and data constraints to the business; applies equal conveyance regarding business strategy and IT strategy, business processes and work flow automation, business initiatives and IT initiatives, and benefit realization and service delivery.