Business Solution Architect – III

Role Overview

• Works with key stakeholders within the organization to define and document current business processes, intended business outcomes, and operational challenges related to various operational activities using standard modeling frameworks.
• Collects, aggregates or disaggregates complex and conflicting information about the business to develop succinct and actionable insights.
• Recognizes and articulates the implications and interdependencies of new organizational processes, and key IT and business initiatives.
• Communicates the business process implications of technology implementations to stakeholders.
• Leads development of a central repository of Business Architecture artifacts, including but not limited to Business Capability Maps and Process Diagrams, to provide traceability through the organization and aid in ongoing governance.
• Develops and maintains a business capability execution roadmap.
• Performs impact and risk analysis and identifies when initiatives need to be scaled up and adopted more widely.
• Understands and translates business needs into functional requirements.
• Defines the external entities (e.g.; customers, suppliers, and external systems) that interact with the business; and the people, resources and controls involved in the processes.
• Defines the data shared across the enterprise and the relationships between those data.
• Captures the relationships among roles, capabilities and business units, the decomposition of those business units into subunits, and the internal or external management of those units.

Requirements

• Minimum of 12 years of direct work experience in a business analyst / architect capacity working with business systems related to systems support, analysis, or development.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a lead position providing leadership and mentoring to other Business Analysts.
• The ability to visualize and create high-level models that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture practice.
• 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.
• The ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies.
• Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques.
• Team player with strong collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively at all levels of an organization.
• The ability to identify opportunities for process improvement throughout the organization and be able to showcase ideas and get consensus on solutions.
• Strong situational analysis and decision-making abilities.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical benefits coverage, dental plans and vision coverage.
• Health care and dependent care spending accounts.
• Short
• and long-term disability.
• Life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment insurance.
• Employee and Family Assistance Program (EAP).
• Employee discount programs.
• Retirement plan with a generous company match.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
• Paid Time Off (PTO)