Business Architect

No C to C or Sponsorship

Business Architect

Location: Buffalo, NY (Preferred) / Remote

(Travel to Buffalo, NY every 4–6 weeks required; Monday–Thursday onsite during travel weeks)

Department: Enterprise Architecture

Reports To: Enterprise Architecture Manager

Position Overview

The Business Architect defines and evolves the enterprise business architecture to ensure alignment between strategy, operating model, and execution. This role establishes clarity around organizational objectives, value delivery, and the business capabilities required to achieve strategic outcomes.

The Business Architect serves as the bridge between business strategy and enterprise execution, shaping target-state models, informing investment decisions, and ensuring initiatives deliver measurable business value. This individual will partner closely with executives, enterprise architecture teams, product organizations, and delivery teams to drive alignment across business and technology initiatives.

This role is ideal for a strategic thinker with strong business and technology translation expertise, excellent communication skills, and experience operating within large, complex enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy Alignment

• Translate business strategy into capability models, value streams, and initiative roadmaps
• Ensure initiatives align to strategic objectives and target outcomes
• Support long-term business and operating model planning efforts

Business Architecture Modeling

• Develop and maintain business capability maps, value streams, operating models, and business architecture artifacts
• Define and document current-state and target-state business architecture views
• Create executive-ready visualizations and strategic planning materials

Transformation & Investment Guidance

• Identify capability gaps and prioritize investments based on business value
• Support portfolio planning, investment prioritization, and business case development
• Provide business architecture guidance for enterprise transformation initiatives

Enterprise Analysis & Design

• Assess business processes, organizational structures, and systems for alignment and operational efficiency
• Define business-driven requirements for transformation initiatives
• Partner with technology teams to ensure solutions align with intended business outcomes

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with executives, business leaders, Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Product teams, and delivery organizations
• Facilitate alignment across business and technology stakeholders
• Influence decision-making across complex organizational environments without direct authority

Governance & Standards

• Establish and maintain business architecture standards, frameworks, and best practices
• Ensure traceability from strategy through execution, including capabilities, initiatives, and outcomes
• Promote consistency in business architecture methodologies and deliverables

Cross-Architecture Collaboration

• Partner with Enterprise, Solution, Data, and Domain Architects to align business and technology strategies
• Ensure business intent is accurately reflected in enterprise solutions and technology decisions
• Contribute to enterprise-wide architecture governance and planning activities

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field
• (Master’s degree preferred)
• 10 years of experience in Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Consulting, or Transformation roles
• Demonstrated experience developing business architecture artifacts including:
• Capability maps
• Value stream maps
• Operating models
• Transformation roadmaps
• Strong business and technology acumen with the ability to connect strategy to execution
• Experience working within large, complex enterprise organizations
• Financial services industry experience strongly preferred
• Strong executive communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive alignment across business and technology organizations

Preferred Certifications

• Certified Business Architect (CBA®) – Business Architecture Guild
• TOGAF or equivalent Enterprise Architecture certification

Required Skills & Competencies

• Business Architecture expertise
• Strategic thinking and operating model design
• Capability modeling and value stream mapping
• Enterprise analysis and systems thinking
• Executive communication and stakeholder facilitation
• Business case development and investment prioritization
• Structured problem-solving and decision-making
• Cross-functional leadership and collaboration
• Visualization and modeling techniques
• Understanding of SDLC and enterprise delivery lifecycles

Expected Deliverables

• Business capability maps (L1–L3) with ownership and maturity assessments
• Value stream maps aligned to customer journeys and business outcomes
• Current-state and target-state business architecture views
• Business architecture roadmaps aligned to enterprise strategy
• Capability heatmaps and gap analyses
• Strategic inputs into portfolio planning and investment decisions
• Executive-level presentations, models, and architecture artifacts
• Traceability across strategy, capabilities, initiatives, and measurable outcomes

Additional Information

• Remote candidates will be considered
• Travel to Buffalo, NY required every 4–6 weeks
• Eastern or Central Time Zone candidates preferred
• Financial services background strongly preferred
• Background check required
• No conflicts of interest or personal relationships related to the engagement permitted as part of engagement requirements