IT Business Architect

Job Title: IT Business Architect

Location: 100% Remote (EST Preferred)

Duration: 06+ Months Contract with Extension

Contract to Hire: Yes

Job Description

• Business Architect
• Responsible for interpreting and contextualizing strategy for operational needs and business value.
• Develops and maintains specific artifacts such as business capability maps and value streams to help bridge the gap between strategy and execution.
• Drive rationalization for larger/more complex/new systems & applications. Works closely with Sr. Directors and Directors of Product Owners, Architects, and business teams to influence roadmaps and how they align to enterprise business capability framework.
• Assess existing business capabilities and processes for opportunities to rationalize and optimize.
• Provides oversight and recommendations for system and application projects in line with organizational goals and business capability domains.
• Recognized as a thought leader within discipline who influences decisions made by senior leadership and advances the craft of business architecture within client’s organization.

Responsibilities

• Provides thought leadership to business stakeholders, Solutions Delivery within Experience and technology partners in building & cultivating a forward-looking business capability map based on the strategic priorities of the organization.
• Provide expertise and guidance for high complexity business capability domains.
• Establish roadmaps and drive the rationalization of solutions for core business capabilities across brands, lines of business, and programs.
• Identify optimization potentials, such as leveraging shared capabilities between processes and business units.
• Simplify client’s business environment by identifying how efforts across functions fit together and via reuse identification and business process optimization.
• Make recommendations regarding the sequencing of technology roadmaps and investment allocations across different portfolios based on value.
• Adopts and promotes a business capability lens/mindset across Solutions Delivery within Experience and Technology teams in order to enable the business and IT to better strategize, prioritize and develop solutions to meet business needs and advance the USRM Strategy.
• Collaborates with technology squads/teams and product owners to develop a strong understanding of the technologies and systems they support.
• Work both independently and as part of a team as candidates manage a portfolio of projects to include those considered complex in nature with function-wide and enterprise impact. Provides updates to manager and collaborates with manager regarding highly complex matters requiring escalation.
• Manage the entire lifecycle of the project, from problem identification to research and analysis and resolution and close out.

Qualifications

• Excellent strategic, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies and value stream mapping among other process tools
• Experience working with technology
• Strong ability to understand linkages between strategy and technology and/or integrating technology with business strategy
• Ability to establish and build effective relationships across the organization
• Strong ability to adapt and address unique challenges in a collaborative and creative way
• Ability to exchange ideas and convey complex information clearly and concisely to technical and business leaders
• Self driven
• Ability to influence a diverse group of stakeholders
• Strong experimental mindset to drive solutions amongst uncertainty
• Master’s degree preferred with minimum of 8 to 10 years of experience in business, technology and/or consulting
• Expert skills in Excel and Power Point
• Experience with Technology Portfolio Management and Governance
• Experience developing and implementing technology governance solutions
• Six Sigma, Agile and/or Project Management certifications

Key Skillset

• Past business architecture experience required.
• Works with a strategic lens, builds relationships quickly and easily.
• Insurance knowledge is a bonus.
• Jira helpful.
• Advanced MS Suite.
• Preferred industry experience: Insurance.

Day-to-Day

• This position is a more hands on role working with a domain and supporting a large initiative.
• Balances domain support while working with the team to continue to establish business architecture practices and foundations.
• Has understanding and experience demonstrating the value of business architecture to the organization.

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• Pay Range: $80,000 – $90,000
• The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment.
• Full‑time consultants have access to benefits including medical, dental, vision and 401(k) contributions as well as any other PTO, sick leave, and benefits mandated by applicable state or localities where you reside or work.

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Seniority Level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

• Contract

Job Function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting