What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Architect position at Horizontal Talent?
Job Description
Duties & Responsibilities
Duties & Responsibilities
- Ensure traceability from strategic objectives to initiatives, capabilities, and technology investments.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to capture capability maps, identify pain points, applications, and initiative impacts.
- Maintain and evolve architecture artifacts in LeanIX, ensuring accuracy and usability.
- Map and analyze business processes to ensure alignment with strategic objectives and identify improvement opportunities.
- Support initiative intake and prioritization by providing architectural insights and impact assessments.
- Participate in governance forums and conduct architecture reviews for projects and changes.
- Identify opportunities for simplification, modernization, and reuse across systems and processes.
- Define and maintain current, interim, and target states for architecture domains.
- Facilitate workshops to capture business processes, capability maturity, and strategic priorities.
- Promote awareness of architecture principles and practices across teams.
- Lead initiatives to modernize legacy systems and integrate new technologies seamlessly.
- Translate strategic themes into capability-based roadmaps and architectural targets.
- Collaborate with business units to describe customer-facing, supplier-related, execution, and management functions.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- 5 years in IT or architecture-related roles.
- Experience with EA tools (LeanIX preferred) and frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, etc.).
- Experience visualizing and modeling high-level business structures and processes.
- Familiarity with business capability modeling, application portfolio management, and technology lifecycle.
- Strong analytical, modeling, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to apply architectural principles across both business and technology domains.
- Skilled in translating business strategy into architecture views and capability models.
- Deep understanding of business models, operating models, and value stream mapping.
- Practical experience with EA frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) to support governance, prioritization, and portfolio management.
- Effective communicator across cross-functional teams and organizational levels.
- Proven ability to influence stakeholders and drive consensus.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, initiative-driven environment.
- Demonstrated success in leading change and continuous improvement initiatives.
- High integrity, professionalism, and ethical standards.
- Collaborative mindset with a focus on producing innovative, enterprise-wide solutions.
- Strong grasp of how EA supports governance, prioritization, and strategic change.