Business Architect

17 Aug 2024

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Job Title: Business Architect

Location: Remote

Compensation: W2/ Competitive

Overview:

The Business Architect acts as a bridge between business and technology and helps in the operationalization of strategy, and assists in the technology enablement of core capabilities and value streams. Our Business Architects unite our business strategy and technology transformation to drive business outcomes. These architects maintain the enterprise business architecture and partner with product management, engineering and business relationship management to develop products and roadmaps for business capabilities to achieve strategic enterprise goals.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead interviews and workshops to analyze the current business model and operating model to help define future business capabilities or changes in how key elements of the business work together
  • Lead business architecture portion of business blueprints, including creation of business architecture visuals such as: value stream maps, service blueprints, business capability maps, organizational graphs, and customer/associate journey maps
  • Collaborate with team members within the EA competencies to create a value-add services approach to the organization for technology investments and product development
  • Provide business architecture direction and guidance to technology and business partners in the support of EA that starts and ends with a focus on delivering actionable recommendations to peers and leadership, so they can adjust policies, products, initiatives, and solutions to achieve targeted business outcomes
  • Develop deep understanding of the business end-to-end, its products and services, and general business landscape

Qualifications:

Education and Experience Requirements:

  • 3+ years in a business architecture role where behavioral skills have been applied to help align the technology organization to the business strategy
  • Bachelor s or Master s Degree preferred or equivalent working experience
  • BizBok reference model exposure
  • Scaled Agile methodology and Process Improvement methodology (e.g. Six Sigma, Kaizen) exposure
  • 10+ years relevant work experience

Additional Skills:

  • Proven ability to think about business processes outside of technology context
  • Experience working with Products/Product Teams, User Experience/Journeys, Cloud applications and delivery, etc
  • Consultative approach, including ability to analyze and translate needs into requirements and process flows
  • Ability to synthesize corporate and business strategy and operationalize to link execution to strategy
  • Ability to abstract what the business does into a coherent and cohesive business capability model
  • Ability to abstract business flows and processes into higher level value streams
  • Collaboration skills to work with product/business owners, corporate/business strategists, and other architects (enterprise, data, solution, infrastructure, and technical architects) to develop various views, viewpoints, lenses, mappings, assessments, and heat maps
  • Communication skills to evangelize the discipline of business architecture up and down the corporate chain of command
  • Persuasion skills to bring various teams to align around a common construct the business capabilities
  • Ability to operate at a strategic level as well as drill down deep into details
  • Thorough understanding of the concept to technology enablement lifecycle.
  • Consultative; leverages effective working relationships to drive strategy
  • Can conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities
  • Strong interpersonal and operational skill sets
  • Sensitive and responsive to internal and external needs; maintains a positive attitude, optimizes solutions across teams
  • Discovers new opportunities and solutions to problems by looking beyond current practices and using innovative thinking
  • Actively engages diverse groups and promotes teamwork cross-functionally
  • Advises others; works with integrity and ethically; upholds organizational values
  • Extensive practical experience of architecting enterprise class business critical solutions
  • A broad, enterprise-wide view of business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance
  • Experience with business, technical specific requirement analysis, business process modelling and mapping
  • 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
  • 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
  • Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus

Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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  • ID: #44947133
  • State: Florida Remote 00000 Remote USA
  • City: Remote
  • Salary: Competitive
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2022-08-17
  • Deadline: 2022-10-15
  • Category: Et cetera