Principal Architect, Business Capabilities

Principal Architect, Business Capabilities Overall Objectives

• Define, model, and manage the enterprise’s business capability landscape to support strategic alignment and transformation.
• Drive technical excellence in the architectural design of business solutions by leveraging industry best practices, modern architectural patterns (such as microservices, event-driven, and cloud-native architectures), and advanced technologies to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance enterprise systems.
• Serve as the authoritative owner of the capability map and its relationships to processes, journeys, services, and technology.
• Ensure capability-centric thinking is embedded across architecture, planning, and delivery practices.
• Act as a key integrator between strategy, business design, and IT execution, fostering traceability and reuse.
• Enable investment planning, portfolio rationalization, and operating model design through structured capability management.

• Own and evolve the enterprise business capability map and underlying taxonomy.
• Maintain traceability between capabilities and key business architecture views: journeys, processes, value streams, services, and systems.
• Conduct capability assessments, maturity reviews, and heatmaps to identify transformation opportunities.
• Collaborate with strategy and transformation teams to map target capabilities and support gap analysis.
• Align capability changes with business cases, investment proposals, and roadmaps.
• Ensure capability information is available and usable in enterprise architecture repositories and planning tools.
• Support the definition of target operating models from a capability-centric perspective.

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

• Banking