This role will contextualize high-level strategic goals of stakeholders to meet operation requirements and ensure the company’s vision and mission align with the practical implementation. The Business Architect collaborates with all areas of the company to develop an integrated view of the enterprise using a repeatable approach, cohesive framework, and available industry standard techniques.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES AND AUTHORITY
Capture the tactical and strategic enterprise goals from company units that provide traceability through the organization and are mapped to metrics that provide ongoing governance.
Develop a business architecture strategy with business users based on a situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations.
Apply a structured business architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views of the enterprise.
Define the data shared across the enterprise and the relationships between those data.
Work closely with stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into business architecture artifacts.
Ability to act as liaison conveying information needs of the business to IT teams.
Assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and drawings to articulate their collective relevance to the organization and to high-priority business issues.
Develop a business architecture utilizing industry standards frameworks and create architectural artifacts such as business models, business capabilities, business scenarios, information mapping, and value streams.
Collaborate with other architects and teams to ensure that the business architecture is integrated with other enterprise architecture domains.
Track KPIs and identify opportunities for process improvement and optimization.
Stay up to date with industry trends and best practices in business architecture design and implementation.
Assists all areas of IS in recruitment of technical talent. Work with teams to improve employees’ knowledge and skills for future organization growth. Coach, mentor, and guide employees to be empowered and productive.
Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Four-year degree from an accredited college or university.
At least 5 years of experience in business architecture design and implementation.
Experience in the property and casualty insurance industry is preferred.
Experience with an architecture framework.
Extensive experience planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives.
Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques.
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 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.
Strong knowledge of business modeling, business capabilities, business scenarios, information mapping, and value streams using a variety of tools and techniques.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Use of PC, telephone, copy machine, fax, and other office equipment over six (6) hours per day.
Extended periods of sitting and concentration.
Occasional bending, twisting, crouching, pulling, pushing, lifting, and moving items weighing up to 30 lbs.
WORKING CONDITIONS
Occasional long, irregular hours.
Occasional travel by auto or other public transportation.
Work to be conducted in office environment owned or leased by company.
Provide after-hours problem resolution when required.
Travel as required.
REVISED March 2024
